(Alvarez 162). Four sisters step forward to fight the corruption and injustice of their nation. Against a cruel tyrant and the odds against them‚ they refuse to give up their beliefs or courage‚ as they lead their nation toward the war for liberation. The Mirabal sisters represent the anomalies of the society‚ struggling to fight for their God-given rights of freedom in the 1930-1960’s in the Dominican Republic. In the Time of the Butterflies is not just a story of the Mirabal sister’s immense fight
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Deanna Sheehy Take-Home Test In the Time of the Butterflies 1. All the sisters lose their innocence pretty early into the novel. Minerva was the first to learn about the real world around her. While at boarding school with Patria and Maria Teresa‚ she meets a girl named Sinita who tells her the truth about Trujillo. Minerva realizes that her country isn’t as she thought it was. Patria realizes the same thing while out on a retreat in the mountains. She witnesses a young man about the age
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organized into three parts—Part I‚ Part II‚ and Part III. These parts are followed by an Epilogue critical to the story. Each part of the book consists of four chapters‚ each chapter is told by a different narrator. The narrators are the four Mirabal sisters (aka the butterflies)‚ Dede‚ Minerva‚ Maria Teresa‚ and Patria. As each chapter changes narrators‚ bits and pieces of the story are revealed as each different personality finds different facts important. Dede‚ Minerva‚ and Patria all use a standard
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through the story of the Mirabal sisters‚ the women who broke their boundaries of what their gender can do and came out of the household to do something better. This shows that no one else can decide the expiry
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leader among the politicals. While most are too scared to make big stands against the government‚ Leo makes bold decisions‚ which often end up in him being kicked-out of the country. Leo was a very courageous man‚ and was the primary reason the Mirabal sisters become involved with the rebellion in the first place. 3. “He yanked me by the wrist‚ thrusting his pelvis at me in a vulgar way‚ and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion rise – a mind of its own –and came down on the astonished‚ made-up
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“Ciudad Trujillo” and put 2000 statues of himself in it. He even had signs that flashed “God and Trujillo” 2. He There was an upper class family that stood up against his regime‚ commonly known as the Mirabal sisters or “The Butterflies”. All before the age of 20‚ three of the 4 children in the Mirabal family were part of the underground rebel group called the 14th of June Movement (or more formally known as the Dominican Liberation Movement). The head of the 14h of June Movement was Minerva’s Husband
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people were killed during his reign of terror. Amongst those victims were three—out of four—of the Mirabal sisters‚ Patria‚ Minerva‚ and Maria Teresa. Dede was the surviving sister. In the Time of the Butterflies is a fictionalization of the lives of the Mirabal sisters from their personal views of what happened during that time. It recounts the rebellion against Trujillo. Minerva‚ the most independent sister‚ began to realize the horrible actions of Trujillo from her school friend Sinita‚ whose family
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March 25‚ 2013 Mirabal Sisters When people think of the Dominican Republic in the twentieth century‚ two words come to mind: Rafael Trujillo. His dictatorship was defined by a rigid control over the Dominican people. But many would also have people remember another history of the Dominican Republic‚ a history of brave resistance and immense sacrifice. Two different words come to mind when thinking of this history: The Butterflies. These were the code names of
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critics believe that relationships between men and women are recognized by power‚ and this power is emerged from a language in which men can almost dominate the whole members and individuals in a society. The life of the courageous sisters becomes textualized in the novel through a discursive polyphony of female voices that serve to illustrate the daily oppression of the Dominican population among Trujillo’s tyranny. In the novel‚ the myth of Trujillo’s hyper sexual desire for girls and young women
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face in patriarchal dominated societies. In the Time of the Butterflies‚ the Mirabal sisters’ transition to womanhood is anything but easy. These women are confronted with the oppression regime of Rafael Trujillo‚
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