In The Time Of The Butterflies Theme Analysis
Classic Novel: Theme Essay A beautiful, captivating, and revolutionary story, In the Time of the Butterflies, was written by Julia Alvarez and is a true account about struggle, courage, and love between four sisters, their families, and the people they encountered in their lives. I believe the central theme is to push back for what is right, even if it's hard or you stand only, in this case they stand as a family. The family has to deal with entrapment in the Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic throughout the entire story, this family helps change the entire nation's feelings, from entrapment to open minded. This captivating story is so easy to relate to, as it’s presented things every person has to go through in life, problems. What comes
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The sisters also felt trapped by the expected course of their lives, as life was planned out from birth at this time with everything decided for you, as well as by their religious and familial duties. The feeling of entrapment is shown to us by Patria in Chapter 4, page 44 when she describes her birth; the midwife “lowered my arms the way you fold in a captive bird’s wings so it doesn’t hurt itself trying to fly.” Minerva, too, felt trapped, and in Chapter 2 her situation is connected to the entire country. She considers herself trapped at home, so she thinks about having a vacation from this country, as a kind of escape. She sees her situation mirrored in that of the hamsters in their cage, but she realizes that she is not actually like a hamster when the hamster that she tries to let leave the cage refuses to leave. She then realizes, “I’d just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country”, this is saying how even if she left the cage of her family/ community she would still be kept within the ideas of her country and how they live. In the epilogue, the theme of fighting against the wrong, entrapment, for the right, freedom, appears in Dede’s reaction to the telegram that Mama shows her in the morning after the girls’ death. The telegram says that there has been a car accident and that they should go to the hospital in Santiago, which suggests
The sisters also felt trapped by the expected course of their lives, as life was planned out from birth at this time with everything decided for you, as well as by their religious and familial duties. The feeling of entrapment is shown to us by Patria in Chapter 4, page 44 when she describes her birth; the midwife “lowered my arms the way you fold in a captive bird’s wings so it doesn’t hurt itself trying to fly.” Minerva, too, felt trapped, and in Chapter 2 her situation is connected to the entire country. She considers herself trapped at home, so she thinks about having a vacation from this country, as a kind of escape. She sees her situation mirrored in that of the hamsters in their cage, but she realizes that she is not actually like a hamster when the hamster that she tries to let leave the cage refuses to leave. She then realizes, “I’d just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country”, this is saying how even if she left the cage of her family/ community she would still be kept within the ideas of her country and how they live. In the epilogue, the theme of fighting against the wrong, entrapment, for the right, freedom, appears in Dede’s reaction to the telegram that Mama shows her in the morning after the girls’ death. The telegram says that there has been a car accident and that they should go to the hospital in Santiago, which suggests