For more info on a biography of Laura Esquivel:
http://www.biography.com/articles/Laura-Esquivel-185854
Remember that Like Water for Chocolate is a flashback story. It begins and ends with the a woman telling the story of her great aunt Tita. This present day setting acts as a frame through the story.
The bulk of the story revolves around a young girl, Tita, fighting against the traditions and issues that are relevant during the turn of the twentieth century in Mexico.
So, what are those traditions?
I'd like you to work together to find background information about these five topics:
Food
Fabrics
Family/Women’s Role
Mexican Revlution/Flag
Cultural Rituals – Religion/Tradition
www.wallwisher.com/wall/likewaterforchocolat
Each of you should find one fact or website or youtube video about each of these topics and your contributions here:
So, the question is, How does YOUR background influence your writing?
MAJOR WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
1. An essay about your passions
or
2. A story in which you try your hand at magical realism
READ: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
salvoblue.homestead.com/wings.html
As you begin to think about your next projects of writing about your passions or creative magical realism stories, your stories will be infused with your background. How can you elaborate on that and make it uniquely you?
Food is an important aspect in Mexican culture. What is important in YOUR background? How can you use that, like Laura Esquivel, to stabilize your and focus your writing?
Today's Writing Exercise:
Create a RECIPE for a real or imagined food, action, or PROCESS!!!
A RECIPE is a "How-to" description that includes "INGREDIENTS" and "PROCEDURES"
Yo everybody, this is an example of today's assignment.
ReplyDeleteHow to Properly Dispose of a Body
Ingredients:
- 1 pair of gloves
- a bottle of bleach
- 2 sturdy trash bags
- 5 liters of hope
- a cloth
- lighter fluid and huge trash can
- 1 cup of confidence
- with a sprinkle of skill
- a car with a big trunk
- a hole and a shovel
- 3 cups of reflection
- 2 teaspoons of regret
- a dash of repentance
- a bag of lawn fertilizer
How To Make A New Best Friend
ReplyDeleteIngredients:
2 cups of courage
½ cup compassion and empathy
3 ¼ tablespoons of melted honesty
¼ tablespoon trust
A pinch of generosity
Store bought can of self-confidence
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 400.
1. In a large bowl, mix the two cups courage and the ½ cup compassion and empathy. Blend until no lumps are seen.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix until smooth, slowly but steadily. Apply a touch of innocence if the mixture is too sweet.
3. After mixed together, pour it all into a 9x9 glass pan sprayed with a thin layer of dependency.
How to take the country out of a girl… (And replace it with the city.)
ReplyDeleteYou will need:
-A large boiling pot.
-Heels (Stilettos if possible)
-Skinny Jeans
-A nice shirt. (One that’s a bolder color, or has a unique style)
-Accessories! (Bracelets, necklaces, Bow’s, etc.)
*Spurs from cowgirl boots.
Instructions:
1.) Fill the large boiling pot with water a little past the half way mark.
2.) Turn heat on and wait for water to boil.
3.) Add heels, skinny jeans, and shirt.
4.) As the items from number three begin to become affected by the heat, add the accessories you’ve chosen one by one.
5.) Once the materials seem to have dissolved/are fully cooked turn heat off.
6.) Pour finished soup/broth into a bowl, eating carefully in order to keep from burning your mouth.
*If you wish to not fully turn into a city girl, and still have some country aspects, add spurs into boiling water after you are finished adding the accessories.