Comparison Of Encanto And Like Water For Chocolate

The movie Encanto is a movie that shows the magic of family and how family hierarchy affects a family. The film shows how things like hierarchy and magic can affect the family and their bonds. Like Water for Chocolate is a book about Tita and her family situation and how she is a woman during the Mexican Revolution. The book covers topics such as the loss of a child, magic, the cultural effects on relationships, and forbidden love. Although Encanto and Like Water for Chocolate have many differences in their portrayals of Latin American families in their storylines, the connections in fire through magic and the soul through food in both the movie and novel have many parallels in their stories.

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In like water for Chocolate Mama Elana is at the top and Tita can’t marry or have kids because she has to take care of Mama Elena. And in Encanto, the grandma is at the top and tells the perfect sister to marry the best bachelor in the village. In the novel Like Water for Chocolate Mama Elena says, “ If he intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to bother. He'll be wasting his time and mine too. You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die.” (page 9) Both Mama Elena and Ablea only really care about their family image and how this person should be married to this person because of tradition, culture, and because of

Both in the movie and the book they are used to show aspects of their culture and magic. In Encanto, the main character's mom's power is to heal people with her food which is similar to Tita's power in Like Water for Chocolate. When Tita cooks food, whatever she feels when cooking will affect the outcome of people's feelings and emotions. In Like Water for Chocolate it says, “That took longer than it should have; the batter wouldn’t thicken because Tita kept crying.”( page 30) Like water for chocolate when Tita feels strong emotions, the emotions can be passed through her foods and people can then sense them. This is similar to Encanto because when the mom cooks with all her love she can heal the people that she