Oppression. Many symbolic similarities in "Master Harold...and the boys and the boys" by Athol Fugard, and "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel

In the two novels, Master Harold...and the boys and the boys, and Like Water for
Chocolate, there are many symbolic similarities. In both books there are acts where
individuals strongly oppressed, or discriminated against. Although the individuals are
being oppressed for different reasons their emotions are shattered deeply. In Athol
Fugard's book Master Harold and the boys, an older man is discriminated against by a
younger child only because the older man is black and the child is white. In Laura
Esquivel's book Like water for chocolate, a girl by the name of 'Tita' is oppressed b…