Discusses the novel Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. Describes the theme of freedom. Describes how the female characters must fight through culture, tradition and destiny in order to achieve freedom and true happiness.

This is an examination gender roles in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and James Joyce's The Boarding House. The importance the families place on these roles inhibits the protagonists from achieving their goals.

Uses examples from "The House of the Spirits" and "Like Water for Chocolate" to show the importance of tradition, heritage, family and ancestry in Latin American society. Keywords: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Latin American fiction

An essay discussing the choice between passionate love or secure love. Idea from reading the book 'Like Water for Chocolate'.

The women of the De La Garza family in Like Water For Chocolate are analyzed. Included are explorations of what binds them together, what pulls them apart, and characterizations of each.

Although Mexico had been independent from Spain since the early nineteenth century; their governments were continually overwhelmed by internal and external conflicts. In the early part of the twentieth century, revolution tore the country apart