Trujillo Chapter 1 Summary

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

In La Mentira chapter 1, Demetrio returned home to Mexico and discovered that his brother Ricardo suicide himself. He finds a letter from a mysterious woman detailing how she never loved Ricardo and that she is getting married to someone else, how she aborted their child and how she spent all his money and realizes that she was the cause of his death.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not a happy book. The Author, Junot Diaz, does a great job fooling the reader into believing the story is about the De Leon family, specifically Oscar who is an over weight nerd trying to find the love of his life, but due to a family “fuku” or curse Oscar is having a lot of trouble doing so. Instead, the story actually portrays the dark history of the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Upon reading the stories of Oscar’s relatives the reader feels a powerful message of fear and oppression due to the actions of the Trujillo regime. Even after the demise of

The key to unlocking and understanding Marisol by Jose Rivera is in recognizing and examining the 3 different worlds Marisol works her way through over the course of the play. The main character, Marisol Perez, dies in the very first scene and spends the rest of the play trying to pass onto her impending afterlife. Additionally, Marisol is a play about Puerto Rican culture and religion and how it affects not only the life of an individual, but also the death of our main character.

Alvarez shows many different ways a dictator affects both politics and daily life. People were afraid to say Trujillo’s name in an uncomplimentary way in fear of the consequences if someone were to hear and it get back to him. They were also afraid of being murdered in public for even threatening him. Trujillo was a harsh man so when Minerva says,” and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion rise---a mind all its own and come down on the astonished, made up face,”(she slaps him)(Alvarez 100) later in the book his revenge is for her to not be able to get her licence. Cruel right, but that is what happened when you messed with Trujillo. She also shows the sisters religions throughout the book, mainly Patria’s. Patria is the most religious sister and goes through the most

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.

Being abused as a child and nobody wanting her because of her skin color and loosing her parents and siblings in murder, and yet she didn’t do anything to deserve this. As teen years met Belicia she gained the privilege to make decisions for her self. Until then she suffers the fukú from her own actions. Moving through the generation fukú strikes Belicia’s son Oscar after he made the decision to break one girl’s heart because he was dating two girls contemporaneously. In return he got his heart broken by the girl he chose to stay with and then everything went downhill for Oscar. Gaining weight, and casting every one away Oscar lost his popularity and became a pathetic nobody with suicidal thoughts. "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkein and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the....curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back again."

Oscar is the antithesis of his culture’s idea of manliness. In the beginning we meet an Oscar who is called “Porfirio Rubirosa” (21). Everyone is proud of the boy because this is exactly what he needs to be to be a Dominican man. Men from Dominican Republic, and perhaps Spanish Caribbean men, are expected to take care of their family especially their mothers and sisters, yet they are also expected to be “playboys” who have multiple women. as the first line of the story communicates, “Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about—he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly-bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock” (21). Oscar is the type of man who women say they want; kind, sensitive, considerate, smart, and romantic. He truly want to find true

Likewise, another factor that assists in Trujillo’s persistent control of the Dominican Republic is his abuse of power. Rules are restrictions and too many rules lead to the entrapment of citizens. Julia Alvarez specifically utilizes the word “weakness” to portray the character trait that the majority of the citizens possess. In the word “weakness,” one thinks about not-strong and lack of courage. In essence, no one has the courage to stand up to Trujillo. For example, we see the common trait through the quote, “People who opened their big mouths didn’t live very long.”

Authoritarian; favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. In the novel, In the Time of the butterflies, there is a precise character that is the embodiment of the description, this individual is none other than Rafael Trujillo; the dictator of the Dominican Republic. To further elaborate, Trujillo is the main antagonist within the story, which is shown in the beginning passages of the story. In fact, whenever Trujillo is mentioned, he is spoken ill of by the other characters, painting a picture of his vile personality. As the story progresses he proves that he is capable of being the villain he was drawn out to be.

As the stories of Beli ends abruptly and move further back to the life of Oscar, readers are able to make connections and roughly put together few pieces of the puzzle. In chapter four, Yunior introduces himself and continues to demonstrate the dictatorship through Oscar’s life in college through the development of their friendship. By comparing and contrasting the writing style of chapter four and the rest of the book, there is a noticeable difference. The beginning of the chapter explains Yunior’s involvement of the De Leon Family that “it started with me” (Diaz 167). Before Yunior meets Oscar, he announces, “Move in with him. In fucking Demarest. Home of all the weirdos and losers and freaks and fem-bots. Me, a guy who could bench 340 pounds,

In chapter 1, Lazarillo’s stepfather, Zaid introduces to Lazarillo that food provides security for his home and family. At first, Lazarillo is afraid of his stepfather’s skin then Lazarillo “realized that his visits meant better food for us” (305). Zaid “always brought along bread, pieces of meat, and, in the wintertime, firewood for keeping us warm” (305). Lazarillo feels remorseful after his stepfather is punished for stealing and his mother becomes a servant for the Solana Tavern. Ultimately, Zaid taught Lazarillo in order to improve himself he must learn to cheat and steal. Lazaillo’s mother does not want to be burdened raising two children by herself so she gives up Lazarillo. She advises him to take care of himself since Lazarillo has

By switching to and from first person singular and first person plural Chocano allows the reader to make her message more personal as it could pertain to the reader in a more direct view. However, when using singular she is telling her story and letting the reader gain knowledge from her own experiences. For example, when Chocano says, “We deny regret in part to deny that we are now or have ever been losers.” she is speaking to everyone. This shows that everyone is guilty of this and makes the reader realize that they too deny regret. Overall, this narrating strategy allows her to directly imprint in the viewer's mind that they unconsciously push away the thought of regret because of it’s connections to failure when they should be embracing

In this novel, the characters represent the idea of karma because generally the decisions they make have consequences in the future. The quote, "any day of these will fly away, (p.) >> shows us that we can not always get away with ours because sooner or later the truth will come out and you will end badly hurt. We must always be aware of how the actions we do can have dire consequences. Karma also expresses itself when it says "Alba understood that she was not trying to find out Miguel's whereabouts and that she avenged that she had inflicted on him from birth (p. .) > > This shows us that the actions we take can affect the life a person would say.

Salamanca’s mother left her, this made Sal feel a dire need to see her mother again. Farah Ahmadi want's to escape her hostile country with her mom. Bailey wants to get back to the person he cherishes. However, Salamanca, Farah, and Bailey went after what was necessary to them.