Like Water for Chocolate | Ideas for Group Discussion
With Like Water for Chocolate so heavily steeped in the literature and experience of women, men will be at something of a disadvantage in discussions of this book. Much of the subtext is encoded with messages that will be obvious to women but sometimes elusive to men.
1. In what ways is Like Water for Chocolate typical of popular love stories you have read? In what ways does it go beyond these expectations?
2. Like Water for Chocolate has been summed up by one critic as "Love is Food." Explore the accuracy and relevance of this statement in...
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