Sister act

story also reviels how the Mirabel sisters get involved in the revolution against Trujillo's politics and how they deal with their family and friends in the meanwhile. It is remarkable and catching story because it explains how these sisters achieve liberty throughout their union during a terrible reign where women have few rights and brave people are massacred because there's no freedom of speech. Throughout the storytelling, the sisters come across obstacles that require their

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.” This quote by Revolutionary Che Guevara is quintessential of the mindset of the Mirabal sisters, as well as the Dominican people. The year is 1930 and Trujillo has been declared president of the Dominican Republic, after running a secret campaign of torture and political maneuvering to rig the election -- the dictatorship has now begun. Throughout the following years, a shadow of fear and distrust would overtake

In Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of Butterflies, different types of figures of speech were used to help the main idea come across. In conjunction, Julia Alvarez also organized the novel in a way that all four sisters have a chance to tell their story. Creating the novel in this way heavily affected how the story came out. If these special effects were not incorporated into the novel, the story would not have the same gut wrenching effect. Julia Alvarez begins her story with a sit down interview

In The Time of the Butterflies is a book based on the lives of the Mirabal sisters who took enormous amounts of courage to challenge the corrupt government of the Dominican Republic during the mid-1900’s. Trujillo is the tyrannical dictator, who with the help of his ruthless secret police, rules the country with an iron grip. Not only did he terrorize and kill thousands of innocents, he also personally brutalized and attacked young women against their will. Despite the horrors that Trujillo put these

the intrepid journeys of this novel, we come to learn about each of the four Mirabal sisters, along with their attitude and actions towards their merciless leader. In Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies, readers are introduced to four sisters living under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, the head of the Dominican Republic. All sisters harbor an intense hatred for the state, but among them, two sisters in particular bear stronger differences than the others—Minerva and Dede. Minerva is

award-winning novel “In the Time of the Butterflies” in 1994. The novel delves into the story of the Mirabel sisters. Patria, Maria Teresa, Dede, and Minerva narrate the story of their lives from young teenagers in 1938, until their last breath in 1960. The only sister to survive was Dede. Alvarez in the Dominican Republic interviewed Dede. Dede gives her in depth knowledge of her sisters lives and background. Alvarez vocalizes, “They became real to me because she was real” (Heredia page 4). Alvarez

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 the attributes Vladimir Nabakov would consider necessary for great literature as specified in his essay, “Good

several events that lead the Mirabal sisters to oppose the “Trujillo regime”. The first event is at their high school play when Sanita almost shot Trujillo with the arch. After that day Minerva never saw Sanita again. Also, Trujillo’s party play a big role in the events that lead the Mirabal sisters to oppose to his regime. Trujillo invite the Mirabal family to his party, where he asked Minerva to dance with him. Trujillo was inappropriate with Minerva, and Minerva act with an instinct response (with

historical reference to the beginning of World War 2, corruption of the government and politics and also the death of Trujillo and the three Mirabal sisters. Dede, was the third out of the four sisters. Growing up her father thought of her as "She 'll bury us all [. . .] in silk and pearls." That changed due to the fact that she lost her sisters. Things changed to where her father started getting treated with a little more

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 from the dictator’s oppression. It is not a secret, for Dominican Republic it was a very hard time. Throughout the novel, Alvarez uses violent imagery, which I think supported the deeper