Talk:Like Water for Chocolate (novel)

message: Rousara represents Mother Elena's ideas and traditions, as in novels which use Magical Realism, time is cyclical, Tita cannot have children or be married because she has to take care of Mama Elena, Rosauras daughter, being the last of her daughters, by family tradition, would not be able to marry or have children either, this would lead to the end of the family, and was a selfish tradition any way, Rousara's insitance that it be continued in my judgement, makes her the villian, as she made that choice. However, as we can see, her character lends itself to many interpretations, as does many pieces of literature, we should let this judgement be debated and not give a difinite answer on the padge itself, but put it as a controversy, like the "Antigone"-who is the tragic hero debate.
Zor0 05:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rousara villian or victim?

message: The Title section suggests the best interpretation of the title is Rosaura is a poor substitute for Tita.  In the title, though, para means "ready for" or "meant for", not "substituted for".  The word por, which also translates to English for, conveys substituting one thing for another.  English doesn't make the distinction between para and por, so the English title is more ambiguous.  The title in Spanish could not mean substituting water for chocolate. 
--cgervasi June 2016
Agree with the above cgervasi.  The title section still maintains this unsubstantiated concept of "like substituting water in place of chocolate", although as of July 29, 2017, that is the final explanation of three of four interpretations of the meaning of "como agua para chocolate", i.e., like water for chocolate.  I am deleting that sentence as the book was written in Spanish, not English and this extension of meaning perverts the original title's meaning.  Unless the director of the film is referenced somewhere saying she purposely translated the english title to be ambiguous for purposes of the film, there is no reference of support for this and as a bilingual speaker from where the story takes place in Mexico, reading this explanation created an undesireable bump in the reading of the section.  If it can be supported by a quote or reference for the director, that would add to the narrative on the development of the film.  If there is no reference, this is just inaccurate and ould be introducing ambiguity into the adaptation and translation that simply never existed before.  Hopefully this will stay out unless there is actually a reference to it, which there is great reason to be skeptical that there would be.  July 2017  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.122.87 (talk) 19:12, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Title Meaning

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Likewaterforchocolate.PNG

message: The lede is about the novel, the infobox is a film infobox; shouldn't this article be split into separate ones for the novel and the film as is The Color Purple (The Color Purple (film), The Color Purple (musical))? It would make it easier to feel more comfortable adding things like :Category:Films about cooking to the article. AUTiger » talk 01:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the article should be split.--RossF18 (talk) 05:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

text: The Articles were split. --RossF18 (talk) 05:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article split?

message: *  Excerpt at questia.com.  
*  Google excerpt.
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:52, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: NOT   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.20.235.216 (talk) 21:05, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  for kids or not?? 

message: In the story like water for chocolate i find the main character Tita was being played by Pedro.In my eyes, he is a scum bag and i kind of think he dose not deserve Tita AT ALL!!!! as for Rosaura do I think she is a victim? not really, see i think she got what she deserved and so did mama Elena after the way she treated Tita and the rest to the people on the ranch she deserved what she got in life. all in all the ending was in a word perfection. it fit the story and it gave peace to Tita. i recommend that EVERYONE read this book and take the moral way from it about love, life, tradition, growth, and change.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bella81614 (talk • contribs) 02:05, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  the characters review 

message: It seems that many users are trying to change the death of Tita to eating matches rather than candles. In the novel, she eats candles. It's in the film that she eats matches. This page is about the novel. Just keep a look out for this, everyone. Thanks! Roseclearfield (talk) 23:45, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death by candles vs. matches 

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