Laura Esquerel's Like Water For Chocolate

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Despite many people’s beliefs, all families have culture. Therefore, any traditions your family may have count. Whether those traditions be something like special family recipes passed down from generation to generation, or just going camping every summer, it does not matter. Within my family, a personal favorite tradition of mine is every year when my mom, my sister, and I, paint pumpkins for Halloween. In Laura Esquerel’s novel, Like Water for Chocolate, a major theme is that family has the potential to hold you down, and I cannot relate to Tita’s experiences with tradition and family issues based on my own with non-oppressive tradition and lack of family ties. Specifically, conflicting feelings Tita had for her family, pinned her down and

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