Like water for chocolate is a novel by Laura Esquivel set in Mexico where two young people who were in love Tita and Pedro were stopped from getting married by Mama Elena who is the mother of tita because of a family tradition,. The novel became successful and was later adapted into a movie by Alphonso Arau where the majority of the story stayed the same with a few differences.

As I said in the introduction the movie by Alphonso and The reading by Laura mostly are very similar the difference is the movie is fast-paced and changed some of the things, such as Rosaria death, Rosaria was one of the most important characters in the story she was mama Elena’s favorite daughter and she was a mother and the wife of Pedro before she died and her death in the novel was honored with a funeral even though many people did not attend because of the unusual odor, in the movie her death was ignored and for a character that was important it feels too vague. Gertrudis which is tita sister had a baby which was a mulatto because of his grandfather who was mama Elena first boyfriend which was killed had a different approach in the movie the did not show the kid because it was important because Gertrudis real father was the reason why mama Elena husband Juan passed away and was about to cost Gertrudis her husband until tita stepped in and show the letter which proved that Gertrudis wasn’t cheating.

desire is one of the common there we encounter in this novel because everyone in this was striving for something, for Pedro, it was the love he decided to get married to Rosaura in order to get close to tita which e felt like it was the only way, tita was love and ending the family tradition, but mama Elena was striving to keep the family tradition going, and the family tradition ended but it comes with the cost of many lives from mama Elena to tita .

The story itself is interesting it has many factors that keep you engaged in the story, from the beginning a supernatural factor was introduced which was the birth of tita the daughter of Mama Elena and Juan de la Garza she was born in the kitchen and cried and which make pounds of salt causes salt, to the family tradition that the last daughter shouldn’t married and take care of their mother until she dies which itself is very interesting because you could get married and still take care of your mother and then the family drama/ love which is when mama Elena decided that Rosaura was going to marry Pedro instead of tita, it was interesting because it’s a stupid decision to propose one daughter instead of the one that was truly in love, the cooking, and the recipes was the from the beginning. Later on, the ghost of Mama Elena telling tita she needed to go away from the family because she was ruining everything.

I think this is something that will always with movie interpretations of books to a movie there will always be some changes, that why there are 3 different types of translations which are traditional, radical, and literal translation and the movie I feel like it’s a literal tradition because it’s a very similar to the novel which it was inspired by