`` Like Water For Chocolate And The Bluest Eye ``

Laura Esquivel and Toni Morrison portray the limitations that are placed on young women as a result of expectations of the female’s role of what it is to be a woman of a particular race in family or society, through their enthralling novels, Like Water for Chocolate and The Bluest Eye. The role of being a woman is heavily suppressed upon females in our society and this concept is analysed in different notions of two very different women with different personal worlds and self values. The idea of familial and societal barriers is illustrated through the subjugation of women, the limitation of female identity, and the notion of female writing, through Esquivel and Morrison’s analogous values in their protagonists, Tita and Pecola. Like Water for Chocolate belongs to the genre of magical realism, a literary style first developed 1949, commonly recognised in Latin-American literature and was proposed as a natural outcome of postcolonial writing. (Britannica, n.d.) In terms of Mexico, Esquivel describes the country’s cultural myths and historical context to uphold the values and standards of gender throughout the Mexican Revolution. The building standard and subjugation of gender construct has widely evolved throughout centuries, and has touched upon the personal obstacles Tita and Pecola face in their own racial, familial and feministic manner. As portrayed in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’, tradition in Mexico, outline that Tita is forbidden to marry because of her placement inShow MoreRelatedFeeling Home : The Bluest Eye1010 Words   |  5 PagesThis thesis falls in four chapters with an introduction and a conclusion. The first chapter, feeling home: the kitchen as a self- empowering space in The Bluest Eye, explores the kitchen as a mimic of homeland for black Americans. It investigates the role of food as a way to keep the culture alive. Rafa Zafar argues thatâ€Å" remembering, writing about, and passing on recipes keep African American cultural traditions and personal stories alive†(Bower, 6). During the 1950s, after the losses that AfricanRead MoreBelonging Essay4112 Words   |  17 PagesWinch, Tara June, Swallow the Air Gaita, Raimond, Romulus, My Father Miller, Arthur, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End Luhrmann, Baz, Strictly Ballroom - film De Heer, Rolf, Ten Canoes - film Shakespeare, William, As You Like It Skrzynecki, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle Dickinson, Emily, Selected Poems of Emily Dicksinson Herrick, Steven, The Simple Gift Baillie, Alan, The China Coin Russell, Willy, Educating Rita Cleven,Vivienne et al (eds), Contemporary Indigenous PlaysRead MoreShort Story : Chapter Story11785 Words   |  48 Pagesalways host a grand party, Cousin. It will be better than mulling around here hour after hour, worrying over Thomas. Please come along, Allie,† he begged. â€Å"It’ll be fun! In addition, if you’re still here come May, you can escort me to the ball- just like a real date. And just think of all the you ng men in uniform- they’ll be so handsome!† â€Å"Are you forgetting that I am a married woman- I don’t care for handsome young men, in uniforms or out.† Eli chuckled and said, â€Å"Well, I do, dear Cousin. And, I