In The Time Of The Butterflies By Julia Alvarez

Women have always had problems with how they have been treated in the world. They were never treated fairly or equally. These things have effects on women and they aren’t really good outcomes on how women feel about it. In Julia Alvarez’s book “ In the time of the butterflies” it shows gender roles, how women are treated in the Dominican Republic. Trujillo the dictator of dominican republic never gave women rights, and just overall hated the thought of women being like men. This is a reason why women have been invisible to the world, and abused because of men like Trujillo. When women in his country finally spoke against him he did everything in his power to get rid of them and he did. No one in this world should have to go through

God made everyone equal because not one person is better than another. “ in the Time of the Butterflies” the Mirabal sisters helped others see how women were invisible to society and treated unequally in the world.‘From that time down to the present, it is clear that the changes our country has gone through have not been a product of the actions of men alone, but most of the leading female figures who acted alongside them are nearly faceless women.” Minou Mirabal . This quote alone shows that women have always helped men get the world to how it is today, but the women have never been given credit for what they have done for helping men. Basically women in the past would helped men become known. Women help the men or work alongside the men, and when it came down to who’s work it was, the women

That is what women started doing. They started speaking how they felt, and it lead to torture and abuse, but you can’t get anywhere, you can’t make a change without a start. “In the Time of the Butterflies” that’s what the Mirabal sisters did; they got tired of how women were treated like dirt. These women knew they were just as much apart of this world as men were. Most women probably wanted to do something about it they were just scared, but the Mirabal sisters did do something about it . They died trying to make women as equal as men in the dominican Republic, and it made all the difference. “It was Minerva who proposed to a group of friends and relatives to form a national political-military group to confront the regime. The goal: to overthrow the dictatorship and introduce a democratic government.” Minou Mirabal. These sisters wanted Trujillo gone because that was a very big step in getting their country out of dictatorship, and start on getting it to were women can have a say and have more