In both the play, Blue Beach by Victor Hugo Rascon Banda and the novel Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquirel symbolism plays a vital role throughout the central ideas. ... In the play Blue Beach, the hotel portrays the breaking down of the Garza family, while in the novel Like Water for Chocolate, the use of cooking by Tita gives the reader the idea that the Tita is being held against living her own life, and instead living the life which her mother wishes to put upon her. ... In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, there is also a great deal of symbolism throughout the whole story. ...

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