Like Water for Chocolate
To produce a good story, one must fabricate a plot in which the characters and the way they interact in the story seem natural. The plot of two love-struck people unable to be together is a classic among novels, but where it fails is the rest of the story is so run wild that the reader cannot relate. With credulously forced sexual innuendo, and quickly evanescing characters, Like Water for Chocolate tempts potential, but does not connect at any level with the reader.
Without strong supporting characters, it is harder to communicate with the reader. In Like Water for Chocolate, characters are introduced to solve conflicts and then they fade away from the tale. Rosaura is introduced when Pedro comes to ask Mama Elena for Tita’s hand and is rejected, “But if you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura, who’s just two years older than Tita.” (pg 13) After Pedro and Rosaura marry, they move to San Antonio and become a footnote in each chapter. One cannot truly understand Tita’s emotions toward Rosaura if she is not around. A pattern is formed when Tita’s other sister, Gertrudis, is introduced and leaves in the same chapter,
