Textual Analysis Of The Play Foodies By David And Maggie

The script shows ordinary people with everyday situations that many people would be able to relate to on one level or another. The experiences on display throughout the play can be understood by those who may live in small towns like the one in the script or those who reside in major urban areas.

What I feel is one of the most important aspects of the play is the

The depiction of timeless issues such as these is what makes the storyline of the play compelling to me.

Food is important to human beings not only for sustenance but also as a means of communication. Food as communication is portrayed and interpreted in different ways in different cultures. In many Asian cultures in particular, food becomes the substitute to express a generally unspoken affection: love. In the cultural background of unexpressed love where food becomes the channel of the message, food in turn becomes a sensitive topic and therefore can serve as a catalyst for arguments in relationships between people of that culture. In a case study observing a couple of Korean cultural background – Peter and Elli – I attempt to uncover the metamessages underlying their arguments involving food.

“A Family Supper” by Kazuo Ishiguro has an interesting twist on love and family, albeit grotesque to some, the literature is meaningful. The characters played a major role in how the family dynamics played against one another. The family home sets the reader up to understand the isolation the father felt. The conflicts the characters experience have shaped them into the people they are presently. The lack of an ending also plays a major role in the way love and family is portrayed by the author and will conclude how love and family relate to this piece of literature.

The play makes you think, whether for a split moment or a long time, about the idea of being aware while going about even the most menial of tasks.

This film has many protagonists. The main protagonist is Martin Naranjo. He is an accomplished chef who is a widower. He lives with his three adult daughters who are very beautiful, but remain single. Naranjo lost his wife approximately ten years prior to the setting of the film. Since then he has assumed the role of father and mother. Naranjo works as a chef fulfilling is fatherly role and he also does all of the cooking, cleaning and laundry fulfilling his motherly role. Naranjo maintains that on every Sunday, the family shares a meal to share their life experiences of the week with each other. The meal seems to be a tradition in that family that has been a part of the family’s ritual prior to the passing of the mother. Some of the daughters find the meal to be more of a punishment than an enjoyment. Martin for most of the film has lost his ability to taste the flavor in the food he creates. He relies at work upon his best friend and fellow chef, Gomez played by Julio Mechoso, for taste. Martin is the main protagonist as he demonstrates the most change. He lets go of his adult daughters, one at a time while gaining two more daughters, Eden the daughter of his much younger bride than he and his unborn child with the same, Yolanda.

3. The power of the play is its relevance to today’s society. We are surrounded in everyday life by men and women who might as well have been characters in this play.

According to Carroll, the reading is talking about families are adapting into new working schedules, social roles, eating patterns and dinner shifted. She says “…industrialized America, evening, the time when families came together after the day’s separation, became special. Logically, so did dinner.” (pg.76). Personally, my real meal is dinner time.

The Theme I will be exploring in this play will be family. In this play you come across many scenes that are more focused on the family getting together and being

When we are sad, we eat. When we are happy, we eat. We celebrate birth, life, and death with food. Our emotions are bonded with food. A simple bite of food can remind us of happier and safer times or it can make you wallow in sadness, for those happier and safer times are long gone. You can taste the love prepaid in food; it fills you up with glee. However, you can also taste the oppression in food, each morsel sautéed with anger and anguished. Food and humans have an influence, over the other; the two are emotional bound. The food in Like water for Chocolate was more than just for nourishment, it was an outlet for concealing emotions of the characters. The food expressed heartache and joy. It brought out both good and bad memories. Whether they were cooking or eating it, food was more than just, dinner to the characters.

The story shows us that nobody is perfect we will all make bad decisions but it’s what we do when we are told to open our eyes and reevaluate our beliefs that the play write really hits

The dish is a clumsy blend of bitterness and sentimentality. The first bite is promising, but upon further consumption, the piece seems to lack sustenance and will leave you unsatisfied. It has distinctive qualities, such as an incoherent narrative that relies on food motifs to string it together. If anything can be said, this piece is unique. No other author has dared to publish such a jumbled mess of writing. The author has nothing meaningful to say about any of the societal issues that she has brought up. It’s a hodgepodge of empty words.

You have a really strong argument and position and I really like it. After seeing what you said about bonds and relationships through the play and how this effects the whole story; I started to think how this was a big theme that I missed. I think you picked a perfect quote, it supports your claim very well. The creation of the Quote Sandwich was done very well. You told the readers what you wanted to prove and then went on to show the quote that supports you and ended it with explaining the quote and why it is important.

       In conclusion, Food has a meaning of communication in this novel. Food is represented to