Rafael Nadal

“If you don’t study your history, you are going to repeat it” (312). Dedé states this in In the Time of the Butterflies after being questioned why she shares her story. The historical fiction novel by Julia Alvarez, takes place in the 1940’s, under the dictatorship of Trujillo, and in 1994 when Dedé recites her family’s historic and engrossing life. The Mirabal sisters up rise against the government, hoping to gain freedom for the Dominican Republic. Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies exemplifies

One reason that caused the Dominican migration to the United States in the last century was the Trujillo’s regime, the opportunity for a better future and work opportunities. For example, poet and fiction writer Julia Alvarez, who wrote best-selling story How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, family fled from the Dominican Republic because “her father began to be eyed with suspicion by security agents of Trujillo dictatorship, due to his possible link with an anti-government plot” (Torres-Saillant

Julia Alvarez in her book In the Time of the Butterflies uses lots of describing, connecting and helping us to realize things that happened in 1960, in Dominican Republic. The book genre is historical fiction, in this genre truth is often based on emotion validity rather than factual reality. Author looks up the ways to demonstrate the essence of each person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In this book it tells about three sisters that with the revolution have released people of their country

As a native-born Dominican migrating to the United States, Junot Diaz was positioned to assimilate to the culture of the United States. Diaz’s depiction of identity is expressed throughout his works, especially in The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao. Taking a nuanced approach to the complexity of the “American” culture relative to that of the Dominican Republic, he expresses his distaste for certain societal expectations and delves into the ramifications of those expectations through the experience

In the Time of the Butterflies, written by Julia Alvarez, creates a fiction story about the true events of the Mirabal sisters and taking over the Dominican Republic’s government. In the Time of the Butterflies contains the classic war between passion and responsibility. Personal causes, love, a desire for revenge, determination to redress a wrong, or other emotions or drives conflict with moral duty. In In the Time of the Butterflies, many characters confront the demands of a private passion that

Just like the spies in the book, people who seemed to just be servants reported Alvarez’s father for revolting against Trujillo and they had to flee to avoid persecution. Many people felt like the oppressive dictatorship had been in place for too long and they would start revolutions and fight to overthrow the dictator. Alvarez wrote, “A national underground is forming. Everyone and everything has a codename. Manolo is Enriquillo, after the great Taino chieftain, and Minerva, of course, is Mariposa

The relationship between the city of Trujillo and the Marinera is special, because one of the mainly things that represents the city is this precise dance. This affirmation was made official when in January 24 1986; the city of Trujillo was declared the capital of the Marinera. When they saw that it was something meaningful for the city’s population, the congress decided in 2012 that October 7 was going to be the Marinera day (nationwide) in honour of one of the most famous Marinera music composers:

They say about families that if you knock on the door, they have to let you in. Family will always be there no matter what. The book, In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, tells the true story of the four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa and their fight for freedom against the harsh dictator, Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic. In the book, Alvarez uses the theme of family loyalty to show that no matter what happens families fight and work for each other because

Trujillo an autarch and the antagonist of the novel, a cruel man with false views on what it mean to have freedom. Just like our history show we never seem to have villains who are no different from each other. People who try to make a change and never succeed because they are afraid of the shadows that trujillo had set. A dictator that accomplished money, agitation from those who are innocent. It is sad to say that in this world there were beings like that and other who envy his role in dictatorship

In the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, there are many aspects that have an effect on courage. Each of the four Mirabal sisters have their own moments of courage that are unique in different ways. Throughout the novel, the Mirabal sisters’ motivations to become involved in the revolution all emerge from their influential friends family members, and their desire to protect and impress those people. Although Patria’s motivation to have courage and take part in the Revolution