Question

Read the excerpt below from “At the Hearth” by Laura Esquivel and answer the question that follows.

Answer 1

B. She's growing up in a different social and historical environment.

Answer 2

Esquivel is trying to share the lessons she learned at the hearth with her daughter but the daughter has such a different response to them from Esquivel because she’s growing up in a different social and historical environment.

“At the Hearth” is the first chapter from Laura Esquivel's book “Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor”.  The stories of Laura Esquivel are surrounded by magical realism and the truths which are beautiful and astonishing at the same time. She tells the simple truths which are so common to be noticed. She makes the readers feel the same as her perception towards life.