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miss-c09
miss-c09
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High School - 12th Grade

What is the genre of Like Water for Chocolate?

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Posted by miss-c09 on Sunday May 3, 2009 at 12:10 AM and tagged with genre, like water for chocolate.

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  1. mbomengen
    mrsmonica Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    The genre of the work is that it is a novel, and it is written in the Latin American style called magical realism. The author mixes in elements of the supernatural and fantastic among the realistic storyline. For example, when Tita cooks the wedding cake and cries into the cake batter because she is so sad to be losing her lover to her sister, the wedding guests become violently ill after consuming the cake.

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    Posted by mrsmonica on Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM