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'''Blackpool Borough''' were a [[rugby league]] team based in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]]. |
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:''This is an article about the novel. For the article on the 1992 film, see [[Like Water for Chocolate (film)]]. For the [[Common (rapper)|Common]] album of the same name, see [[Like Water for Chocolate (album)]].'' |
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The team wore tangerine, black and white. |
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'''''Like Water for Chocolate''''' is a popular [[novel]] published in [[1989]] by first-time [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[novelist]] [[Laura Esquivel]].<ref>[http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=185854 Laura Esquivel Biography]</ref> |
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==History== |
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The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels.<ref>[http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/summary.html Sparknotes]</ref> The novel was originally published in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] as '''''Como agua para chocolate''''' and has been translated into thirty languages; there are over three million copies in print worldwide.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=185854 Laura Esquivel Biography]</ref> |
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===Blackpool Borough=== |
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The novel makes heavy use of [[magical realism]]. The novel was made into a [[Like Water for Chocolate (film)|film]] in [[1992]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261294/ IMDB]</ref> It earned all 11 [[Ariel award]]s of the [[Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures]], including the [[Ariel Award for Best Picture]], and became the highest grossing [[foreign film]] ever released in the [[United States]] at the time.{{Fact|date=January 2008}} |
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A Blackpool club were members of the [[Rugby Football League|Northern Union]] Lancashire Second Competition in 1898/99. The first unsuccessful application for a Blackpool team to join the Rugby League was made by a in December 1950. ''Blackpool Borough'' were accepted into the Rugby League for the 1954/55 season. In their early days, they were known as "the babes". |
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Borough played at Blackpool St Anne's Road Greyhound Stadium but larger fixtures were played at [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool FC's]] [[Bloomfield Road|Bloomfield Road Stadium]]. Their record attendance was 12,015 on 10 September 1955 when they drew with the New Zealand tourists 24-24 at Bloomfield Road. The record attendance was set in 1957 at 22,000 for the third round Challenge Cup match against Leigh. |
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==Plot summary== |
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The book is divided into twelve sections named after the [[Gregorian calendar|months of the year]]. Each section begins with a [[recipe]] of some sort, involving Mexican foods. The chapters outline the preparation of the dish and ties it to an event in the protagonist's life.<ref>[http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/summary.html Sparknotes]</ref> |
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In the first eight years of their existence, they had never finished above 21st. Blackpool Greyhound Stadium was sold for housing and in April 1962 [[Blackpool Borough Council]] granted a 21-year lease on a new ground - Borough Park - on the former gas works and coach park site at Rigby Road and Princess Street. The first match at Borough Park was played on Saturday 31st of August 1963 when Blackpool beat Salford 36-16. The record defeat came on 26 October 1963 when Wigan won 77 points to 8. |
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Young Tita de la Garza, the novel's protagonist, is fifteen at the start of the events in the story, which take place in the era of the [[Mexican Revolution]]. She lives with her iron-fisted mother, [[Mama Elena]], and her older sisters Gertrudis and Rosaura, on a ranch near the Mexico-US border. |
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Rugby League Hall of Fame member [[Brian Bevan]] played for Blackpool Borough between 1962 and 1964 having retired from playing for [[Warrington Wolves]]. In Bevan's first year Blackpool finished fourth in the Second Division. Fellow winger and Hall of Fame member [[Billy Boston]] also ended his career at Blackpool between 1969-71. |
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Tita's admirer, Pedro, comes to ask for her hand in marriage, but Mama Elena forbids it on the grounds of the De la Garza family tradition, which demands that the youngest daughter (in this case Tita) must remain unmarried and take care of her mother until death. Pedro then reluctantly marries Tita's older sister Rosaura instead, and a distraught Tita can hardly keep from being grieved, even though Pedro maintains it is Tita he loves and not Rosaura, and that he only married Rosaura to be closer to Tita. |
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In 1978-79, Blackpool won promotion to the First Division for the first and only time by finishing fourth in the Second Division. However the next season, they finished bottom and were relegated back to the Second Division. |
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Tita has a love of the kitchen and a sharp connection with food of any sort, a skill her sisters lack. Tita unconsciously begins to use the power of food to draw Pedro away from Rosaura, with the rest of the family and hired help becoming pawns in the scheme. |
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In April 1982, Borough were put into liquidation less than nine months after being taken over by a Cardiff businessman. A new company, Savoy Sports and Leisure Ltd, then bought the club and a new Blackpool Borough RLFC was formed on 4 August 1982 and accepted into the Rugby League for the new season. The club was ordered to carry out safety measures on the ground by Lancashire County Council by 1 February 1987 or quit the ground. Blackpool failed to get grant aid from Blackpool Borough Council and were forced to leave. The final game at Borough Park being on the 4th of January 1987 when a crowd of 386 saw the club lose 8-5 to Whitehaven. Their final six home games were played at Bloomfield Road. |
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As the story unfolds, Pedro begins to fall under the developing spell of romance caused by Tita's kitchen skills. It is also important to note that Rosaura's cooking skills are poor, and this makes Pedro even more unattracted to her, as he barely wanted to consummate their marriage to begin with. But side effects do result, as when Rosaura and Pedro are forced to leave for [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]] at the urging of Mama Elena, who is firmly against a relationship between Tita and Pedro, and Rosaura loses her son Roberto and is later made [[infertile|sterile]] after complications with the birth of daughter Esperanza. Meanwhile, Tita's elder sister Gertrudis accidentally becomes affected by Tita's culinary delights and leaves the ranch naked with a revolutionary soldier (though she returns as the head of a revolutionary army). |
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===Springfield Borough=== |
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Upon learning the news of her nephew's death, whom she cared for herself, Tita blames her mother; Mama Elena responds by beating Tita furiously with a wooden spoon. Tita, not wanting to cope with her mother's controlling ways, secludes herself in a dovecote until the sympathetic Dr. John Brown reasons her to come down. Mama Elena clearly states that there is no place for "lunatics" like Tita on the farm, and wants her to be institutionalized. However, the Doctor decides to take care of Tita at his home instead. Tita eventually enters into a relationship with Dr. Brown, even planning to marry him at one point, but she cannot shake her feelings for Pedro. |
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Another consortium took over the club in April 1987 on condition that Borough left Blackpool. |
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After the removal of all obstacles to the relationship between Tita and Pedro, the lovers finally share a night of bliss that is so heated and passionate that Pedro actually dies while making love to Tita. Upset that Pedro dies while she lives, leaving her alone in the world, Tita proceeds to consume matches whilst thinking of his face. The matches are sparked by the heat of his memory, creating a fire that engulfs them both, leading to their deaths in union and the total destruction of the ranch. The narrator of the story is the daughter of Esperanza. Esperanza is Tita's niece and Rosaura and Pedro's daughter, and Dr. Brown's son, Alex, will her marry at the conclusion of the story. The narrator then says that all that was found under the smouldering rubble of the ranch was Tita's cookbook, which contained all the recipes described in the preceding chapters.<ref>[http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/summary.html Sparknotes]</ref> |
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Their first new home was [[Springfield Park (Wigan)|Springfield Park]], the then home of [[Wigan Athletic F.C.|Wigan Athletic]]. [[Wigan Warriors|Wigan RLFC]] were rumoured to have objected to the proposed 'Wigan Borough' name and so 'Springfield Borough' was adopted. |
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Springfield Borough beat [[Sheffield Eagles]] 11-10 in the final rugby league match at Springfield Park. Despite good performances on the field the move was not successful; the pitch was suffering from overuse and in January 1988 Wigan Athletic gave Borough six months to quit. |
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==Characters== |
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*'''Tita De La Garza'''- main character |
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*'''Pedro Muzquiz'''- Tita's lover, marries Rosaura to be closer to Tita |
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*'''Mama Elena'''- Tita's cruel and controlling mother |
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*'''Gertrudis De La Garza'''- Tita's oldest sister, runs away with a soldier |
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*'''Rosaura De La Garza'''- Tita's older sister, marries Pedro |
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*'''Dr. John Brown'''- the family doctor, falls in love with Tita, has a son from a previous marriage |
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*'''Nacha'''- the family cook, like a mother to Tita |
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*'''Chencha'''- the family maid |
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*'''Roberto Muzquiz'''- son of Pedro and Rosaura, dies young |
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*'''Esperanza Muzquiz'''- daughter of Pedro and Rosaura, marries Alex |
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*'''Alex Brown'''- son of John Brown, marries Esperanza |
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'''Nicolas'''- the manager of the ranch<br /> |
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'''Juan Alejandrez'''- the captain who took Gertrudis<br /> |
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'''Jesus Martinez'''- Chencha's first love and husband. |
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===Chorley Borough=== |
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'''Emotional Oppression''' |
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It is evident, especially in the first few chapters, that Tita has been emotionally oppressed by her dictator-like mother. She is forced to hold in her emotions, thus creating a "dampness" within her that does not allow the matches within her soul to light. Tita has hot, earth shaking sex with Pedro at the end of the story and, in reference to the story of inner matches Dr.Brown told her earlier, their lust and sexual needs were so strong that she lighted all of Pedro's "inner matches"; he died from the raw emotion of it all. In her agony, she swallowed some "matches" and lit them with memories of him. She sparked, causing the bed they were having sex on to set on fire. In the end, everything on the ranch (except for the animals because they had all runaway when they sensed what was coming) burned down, but the souls of Pedro and Tita were transported to a special place, a place before birth. There they could finally be together without anyone judging or stopping them. |
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The club played as ''Chorley Borough'' in the 1988-1989 season and finished sixteenth out of twenty teams in the Second division. |
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'''Self Growth''' |
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At the beginning of the novel, Tita was a generally submissive young lady. She feared her mother and her mother's actions, hardly ever daring to disobey for fear of another brutal beating. However, as time passes, Tita finds herself to have a voice that she must use. The climax of this theme could be said to be the part in chapter five (the month of May, if one isn't going by chapters) when Tita stands up to her mother and runs out of the house. By the end of the novel, though Tita is a humble woman, she certainly is not the submissive and fearful girl she once was. |
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===Trafford Borough=== |
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'''Tradition''' |
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Tita and Pedro are not allowed to love because of the De La Graz tradition that states that the youngest daughter (Tita) must take care of the mother until the day she dies. |
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The book also lists out many tradition of the mexican culture, such as traditional recipes. |
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Borough then became ''Trafford Borough'' when they moved to [[Moss Lane]], [[Altrincham]] (sharing with [[Altrincham F.C.]]) for the 1989-90 season. This, however, caused a boardroom split leading to five Blackpool based directors resigning to form a new club based in Chorley (now [[Blackpool Panthers]]). |
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Trafford Borough survived three seasons before returning to Blackpool as ''Blackpool Gladiators'' for the 1992-93 season, playing at the [[Blackpool Mechanics F.C.|Blackpool Mechanics FC]] ground. However, the season was a disaster which culminated in their final home game when they were beaten 90-5 by Dewsbury. Their last game as a professional club was on 11 April 1993 when they lost again to Dewsbury 56-0. They were demoted to the [[National Conference League|National Conference]] for the following season and the professional game in Blackpool disappeared. |
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==Double meaning of title== |
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''Like Water for Chocolate'''s full title is: ''Like Water for Hot Chocolate: A novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies''. |
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==Sources== |
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The phrase "like water for chocolate" comes from the Spanish "como agua para chocolate". This phrase is a common expression in some Spanish speaking countries and was the inspiration for Laura Esquivel's novel title (the name has a double-meaning). In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, [[hot chocolate]] is made not with milk, but with water instead. Water is boiled and chunks of milk chocolate are dropped in to melt thus creating the hot chocolate. The saying "like water for chocolate," alludes to this fact and also to the common use of the expression as a metaphor for describing a state of passion or - sometimes - sexual arousal. In some parts of Latin America, the saying is also equivalent to being "boiling mad" with anger.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/laura-esquivel-aya Laura Esquivel Biography]</ref> |
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== References == |
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*[http://www.blackpoolborough.com/ The history of Blackpool Borough] |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/summary.html Sparknotes homepage] |
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*[http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/ Sparknotes study guide] |
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*[http://www.paperstarter.com/waterforchocolate.htm Thesis statements & important quotes from ''Like Water for Chocolates'' (novel version)] |
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*[http://www.blackpoolrlsupporters.com/ Blackpool rugby league supporters' club] |
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Revision as of 01:25, 13 October 2008
Blackpool Borough were a rugby league team based in Blackpool, Lancashire.
The team wore tangerine, black and white.
History
Blackpool Borough
A Blackpool club were members of the Northern Union Lancashire Second Competition in 1898/99. The first unsuccessful application for a Blackpool team to join the Rugby League was made by a in December 1950. Blackpool Borough were accepted into the Rugby League for the 1954/55 season. In their early days, they were known as "the babes".
Borough played at Blackpool St Anne's Road Greyhound Stadium but larger fixtures were played at Blackpool FC's Bloomfield Road Stadium. Their record attendance was 12,015 on 10 September 1955 when they drew with the New Zealand tourists 24-24 at Bloomfield Road. The record attendance was set in 1957 at 22,000 for the third round Challenge Cup match against Leigh.
In the first eight years of their existence, they had never finished above 21st. Blackpool Greyhound Stadium was sold for housing and in April 1962 Blackpool Borough Council granted a 21-year lease on a new ground - Borough Park - on the former gas works and coach park site at Rigby Road and Princess Street. The first match at Borough Park was played on Saturday 31st of August 1963 when Blackpool beat Salford 36-16. The record defeat came on 26 October 1963 when Wigan won 77 points to 8.
Rugby League Hall of Fame member Brian Bevan played for Blackpool Borough between 1962 and 1964 having retired from playing for Warrington Wolves. In Bevan's first year Blackpool finished fourth in the Second Division. Fellow winger and Hall of Fame member Billy Boston also ended his career at Blackpool between 1969-71.
In 1978-79, Blackpool won promotion to the First Division for the first and only time by finishing fourth in the Second Division. However the next season, they finished bottom and were relegated back to the Second Division.
In April 1982, Borough were put into liquidation less than nine months after being taken over by a Cardiff businessman. A new company, Savoy Sports and Leisure Ltd, then bought the club and a new Blackpool Borough RLFC was formed on 4 August 1982 and accepted into the Rugby League for the new season. The club was ordered to carry out safety measures on the ground by Lancashire County Council by 1 February 1987 or quit the ground. Blackpool failed to get grant aid from Blackpool Borough Council and were forced to leave. The final game at Borough Park being on the 4th of January 1987 when a crowd of 386 saw the club lose 8-5 to Whitehaven. Their final six home games were played at Bloomfield Road.
Springfield Borough
Another consortium took over the club in April 1987 on condition that Borough left Blackpool. Their first new home was Springfield Park, the then home of Wigan Athletic. Wigan RLFC were rumoured to have objected to the proposed 'Wigan Borough' name and so 'Springfield Borough' was adopted.
Springfield Borough beat Sheffield Eagles 11-10 in the final rugby league match at Springfield Park. Despite good performances on the field the move was not successful; the pitch was suffering from overuse and in January 1988 Wigan Athletic gave Borough six months to quit.
Chorley Borough
The club played as Chorley Borough in the 1988-1989 season and finished sixteenth out of twenty teams in the Second division.
Trafford Borough
Borough then became Trafford Borough when they moved to Moss Lane, Altrincham (sharing with Altrincham F.C.) for the 1989-90 season. This, however, caused a boardroom split leading to five Blackpool based directors resigning to form a new club based in Chorley (now Blackpool Panthers).
Trafford Borough survived three seasons before returning to Blackpool as Blackpool Gladiators for the 1992-93 season, playing at the Blackpool Mechanics FC ground. However, the season was a disaster which culminated in their final home game when they were beaten 90-5 by Dewsbury. Their last game as a professional club was on 11 April 1993 when they lost again to Dewsbury 56-0. They were demoted to the National Conference for the following season and the professional game in Blackpool disappeared.