The Mirabel sisters were born and raised on their father’s farm with his hopes that they will continue the family tradition of running the farm. However, all of them leave their home to Inmaculada Concepción as part of their coming of age. “And that’s how I got free. I don’t mean just to sleepaway school …I realized that I’d just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country” (13). Minerva said this when she entered the school and befriending Sinita, who was one of her inspirations in leading the rebellion. Patria attended the school to become a nun and strengthen her faith. However, she ended up conflicting with herself about having someone, besides God, to love. “There was a struggle, but no one could tell. They rambled over my growing body…I tried reining them in, but they broke loose, night after night” (47). She was told by the nuns at the school to listen to His calling and she chose flesh of spirit by marrying the one she fell in love with at first sight, Pedrito González. Inmaculada Concepción was the first place where all four sisters discovered life outside of their secluded farm.
As the Mirabels come to the new places on their journey, most of the time something occurs that alters one of the girl’s personalities. Dedé was against the revolution at first and did not want to be involved