De la Garza family ranch

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The De la Garza family ranch is the traditional, authoritarian household and primary setting of Laura Esquivel’s novel "Like Water for Chocolate," where much of the story’s family drama and magical realism unfold.

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De la Garza family ranch canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
primary setting
ranch
appearsIn Like Water for Chocolate
appearsInWorkBy Laura Esquivel
associatedWithGenre magical realism
associatedWithTheme family tradition
food and emotion
forbidden love
patriarchy and authoritarianism
repression of women
contains courtyard
family dining room
kitchen
stable
storage rooms
countryOfWorkOrigin Mexico
creator Laura Esquivel
firstPublicationContext Like Water for Chocolate
surface form: Like Water for Chocolate (1989 novel)
governedBy Mama Elena
householdType authoritarian
traditional
inhabitedBy Chencha
De la Garza family
Gertrudis De la Garza
Mama Elena
Nacha
Rosaura De la Garza
Tita De la Garza
keyEvents Gertrudis’s departure
Mama Elena’s rule over the family
Rosaura and Pedro’s wedding banquet
Tita and Pedro’s first meeting
Tita’s birth
Tita’s transformative cooking
languageOfWork Spanish
locatedInFictionalRegion Northern Mexico
mediumOfOrigin novel
narrativeFunction central setting for family drama
site of magical realism events
symbolizes domestic space as site of resistance
oppressive family tradition
timePeriodInFiction Mexican Revolution era

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Mama Elena residesIn De la Garza family ranch
Gertrudis household De la Garza family ranch
Heat setInWork De la Garza family ranch
subject surface form: Heat (chapter in Like Water for Chocolate)