Helpful vs. Distracting Has your mom or grandmother ever given you a recipe so that you can cook a special dish for your family? For many people, food is a way into a specific culture and to connect with family like your mom and grandmother. In the novel Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquivel, the chapters are formatted in monthly instalments and each chapter begins with a recipe. This format can help the reader understand the chapter and make it clearer. The format can also be a disadvantage to the reader and make it confusing and distracting. We believe that this particular format of monthly instalments and recipes is confusing to the reader and at times can be very distracting. Although in some parts of the novel the format helps the reader understand the meaning of the chapter. …show more content…
The recipes give a little detail of what is going to happen. If Tita had never become the cook no one in the house would know how to cook their own food and probably might get sick or die. Since Mama Elena got hurt, Tita can do what she pleased, but still had to take care of Mama Elena. After Mama Elena died, Tita and Chencha could finally marry someone. As soon as Mama Elena died, Pedro became a different man. He became more interested in to Tita than Rosaro. Everything is good until Mama Elena’s ghost came the haunt Tita about being pregnant, but turns out she wasn’t and scared Mama Elena away, but when she fly away, she knocked over a lantern and burned padro face in the meanwhile Tita was happy that she was gone. Everything after that was good for