Creative Grammar and Style/Reading and Writing for Self-Discovery 2019-2020: Like Water for Chocolate

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Like Water for Chocolate

Read through February for Thursday. Over the break, you should read up to ( but not including) August. So, you will have read January-July when we come back from the break. Work on imovie poems for Thursday presentations of at least one project per student.

Interested in more links?

Laura Esquivel's biography:

http://www.biography.com/articles/Laura-Esquivel-185854

IMBD about Como agua para chocolate:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/

Magical Realism:

Definitions of Magical Realism:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/definitions/

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/MagicalRealism.html

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_mr.html

5 comments:

Maia SimonJanuary 3, 2011 at 9:59 AM
An example would be when Gertrudis runs through the field with the love from the roses. That whole scene is clearly exaggerated.
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Caleb WhittierJanuary 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM
An example would be when the chickens all start to form a sort of hurricane when they start fighting.
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AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM
One scene involving magic realism in the book is the scene where the chickens fight so much that the create a tornado.
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Djana SefoJanuary 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Djana Sefo

-Being born on a flood of tears
-Everyone getting sick after the cake filled with tears
-Everyone getting horny when everyone ate the quail mixed with petals covered in blood
-When the chickens fight so much that they create a tornado
-When Gertrudis is running through the field with love from the roses
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Lizbeth649932January 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM
-Being born on a flood of tears.
-Everyone getting sick after eating the cake filled with tears
-Everyone getting horny when everyone ate the quail mixed with the petals covered in blood
-When the chickens fought so much that there was a tornado.
-Gertrudis running through the fields with the love from the roses
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