Garcia Girls Sofia

They finally reach the city where Pablo is from and meet Abuelita and the rest of Pablo’s family. They stay there for a week and Sophie is worried that Pablo will choose to stay with his family instead of going back to America with her. Sophie treats Pablo like a little brother, while Pablo admires Sophie like an older sister they don’t want to leave each other. Sophie and Angel start to develop romantic feelings for eachother and start dating. Sophie gets a sense of culture and even tries to help Pablo’s family with the

In the book Alvarez informs us that this takes place during Trujillo 's reign over the Dominican Republic in the 1930’s to the 1960’s. Throughout history dictators have risen and fallen all across the world. Many have been seen as evil, and sometimes good to others, but no matter what a persons view tend to be there are some who even consider them god. Due to a dictators extensive powers and complete control over every aspect of a persons life this is what comes to be. Trujillo is just the same, at first his true motives were questioned and it wasn’t apparent to all what he really was. As the Mirabel sisters grow up it becomes clear that Trujillo is in control of more of their lives than it may seemed. Trujillo leads a complete authoritarian rule over the Dominican Republic with spies everywhere, this can suggest that he trying to assume the role of a terrible god, who is always watching and ready to punish. While all

to run away from the Dominican Republic. She begs "Tell me, Sinita, maybe it will help" (Pg. 15).

In the novel, Marta who got pregnant by rap did not want her child. When Cande and Chayo offered to take the child; Marta agreed that it would be a good idea. At this point in time, Chayo got pregnant and decided to not take Marta's child. Marta became very angry so she went to Remedios, but she said she could not help her. Due to the fact that Remedios could not help her she searched for el brujo. In this case, "Marta had gone to el brujo and placed a curse on him" (Benítez 110). She was extremely angry at

The Mirabal sisters are all considered heroines for their work against Trujillo. Three of them

When Sofia was with Manuel her mother sent her to Dominican Republic as a punishment for finding a bag of marijuana behind a bureau. Smoking was just one of the ways Sofia tested what was expected of her. Sofia also was able to find her sexual independence in America. At one point in her life, she was never without a boyfriend. She was brave and was her own person throughout most of the novel , but as soon as she was with a man that expected certain things from her and in a place where society agreed with those demands everything changed. Geological setting did not only affect Sofia’s beliefs in a patriarchal culture. The girls noticed a difference in the way their cousin Mundin treated them. “When he’s in the States, he’s one of us, our buddy. But back on the Island, he struts and turns macho; needling us with unfair advantage being male here gives him.” (127)

Sofía attempts to take hold of her life by being sexuality active. In How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Sofía is said to be the one who has “non-stop boyfriends”, and is always the one that the others go to for advice on men. This may come as a surprise considering she is the youngest. This is very much against her parents’ beliefs. They want their daughters to stay pure and celibate. After Carlos finds love letters exchanged between Sofía and her boyfriend, Sofía runs away to be with the man of her dreams. This causes Sofía’s relationship with her father to significantly weaken. Sofía engages in premarital sex and becomes pregnant with a child.

She is a person that took every day as it came to her and did what was necessary in order for her to survive. There was no shame in her trying to obtain happiness by keeping her cousin as a lover, nor killing an unborn child to keep herself from being punished. She is attempting to open the eyes of a naive priest who sees nothing but what he has learned from books.

Patria is exposed to the truth that Trujillo was not the god-like entity she perceived him to be. In Patria’s mind there is no separation between god and Trujillo; they are one. Patria is finally coming face to face with the problems within the Dominican Republic. This revelation foreshadows how Patria will become involved with the regime and what part she might play.

One thing the Gangster forgot to tell Beli is that he was married and the wife was Trujillo blood. Since Beli was so excited about the pregnancy, she was telling everyone about it and soon the news got to the palace and the Gangster wife was furious.

Sofia planned to reconcile with her father during a birthday party. She broke tradition, in that the daughters would usually come home for their father's birthday, but she hosts the party at her house to show off her German husband and two blond children. She and her father had fought when he accused her of sleeping around during a trip to Colombia, where she met her husband, Otto. She ran away from home to assert her independence, and later married Otto. Though the party was

When he was just seven years old he was seen crying over his first girlfriend. Before this occurred, his he was called “our little Porfirio Rubirosa” and his mother’s friends once said “look at that little macho” when they saw him with his first two girlfriend’s Maritza and Olga. In an article by Katherine Weese, she touches on Oscar’s early masculinity by saying “the novel provides description on the very young Oscar’s winning ways with women, thereby firmly establishing from the outset the connection between sexual conquest and traditional Dominican masculinity.” After he broke up with Olga and then Maritza broke up with him soon after, he was caught crying on the bus and told not to be a baby. This quickly altered his reputation and lead him through an uphill battle for years to find love again. Years later when describing Oscar’s sophomore year of high school at Don Bosco Tech, Yunior says, “Anywhere else, his triple-zero batting average with the girls might have passed unremarked, but this is a Dominican kid, in a Dominican family. Everybody noticed his lack of game and everybody offered him advice.” Unfortunately for Oscar, his lack of luck with women resulted in him repeatedly being reminded by his sister Lola that he is “going to die a virgin.” These examples offer insight on how important it is for a man in their Dominican community to be successful with women in order to hold a good

There are four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa. They did something remarkable for all women who lived in the Dominican Republic. The girls started a revolution that they were doing things to stop Trujillo. Patria, Minerva,and Maria Teresa Died in the process. Six months after their deaths Trujillo was assassinated. Everything they did for women started then. Minerva was the sister that saw how Trujillo really was first. She felt like she was trapped, “ sometimes watching the rabbits in their pen, she’d I’m no different from you,poor thing.” She went to a Religious boarding school. Minerva met her first actual friend there. Sinita told Minerva things Trujillo did to her family. She didn’t really start believe El

During the year in which the Mirabal sisters grew up their country the Dominican Republic was being led by a wicked dictator of a President, Rafael Trujillo. The sisters fought vigorously to change their country for the better; Minerva being the first of the sisters to stand up against cruel and unjust governmnet, and inspiring the hearts of all those around her including her sisters, who fought along side her to get rid of the corrupt government. She was the backbone of her sisters and the voice of the people.

In the past, women had less power than men for thousands of years. In other words, men played an essential gender role and controlled people all around the world. Obviously, most leaders were males, and there were more male bosses than female`s in companies. This unequal social injustice has existed all around the world, especially in the Dominican Republic. In this country, men always thought the only responsibility of women was staying at home and taking care of the whole family. In addition, men did not care what women really wanted, and the only way was to force women to do what men asked. In the movie In the Time of the Butterflies, which happened in the Dominican Republic, people struggle under the brutal dictatorship of Trujillo between the 1930`s and 1960`s. In this movie, men play the important gender role that women have no right to apply for university, and they have to be obedient to men. However, women work hard to defeat their oppressed unequal fate and seek feminism, especially for the three Mirabal sisters. The Mirabal sisters are normal women who live in a farm with their parents. Unfortunately, their father is killed by Trujillo, so they become revolutionaries. They lead people to dare to start the revolution against feminist resistance. Although the Mirabal sisters understand they will sacrifice their lives, they never abandon due to their respectable ambition to gain equal rights as men.