Summary Of In The Time Of The Butterflies

This novel is a historical story for four sisters who lived through the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Three out of the sisters had direct involvement with Trujillo’s regime and had a huge impact on their country’s history. Their impact left a mark on the Dominican people of national martyr’s that spoke out against injustice in their country. Through the novel “In the Time of the Butterflies” it is clear that these sisters were raised from a middle-class family of famers and had their future before them. Unfortunately, their future was dictated by Rafael Trujillo. Trujillo become the dictator of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and was assassinated in 1961. During his dictatorship Trujillo reduced the foreign debt and

She was always the curious one to know what her sisters were doing, once she finds out the plan she immediately joined because she too wanted to overthrow Trujillo. Her rage and commitment came through knowledge of her pears who knew what Trujillo was doing in his dictatorship. She also was the one who admired who older sister Minerva, she followed in her footsteps by graduating from the University in 1954, (Radeska). Maria Teresa is consistent in the novel and research, she was the youngest but very strong. She was imprisoned alongside Minerva, in prison Maria Teresa keeps a dairy recalling her experience

This rage and commitment to the movement landed many of the members in prison, Trujillo incarcerated people to silence those who were against them. In the book, the sisters’ life is explained and portrayed in the way of a historical novel. In my research, they are more portrayed as national martyrs who passed out pamphlets during Trujillo’s dictatorship to showcase how many people he had killed (Reichard 4). They are remembered as “Las Mariposas” which was there code name during the movement. After, Maria Teresa and Minerva were released from prison they started visiting their husbands in Jail. On Nov. 25, 1960 the Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were stopped by Trujillo’s men. The sisters were straggled and clubbed to death, their death marked the start of the end of Trujillo’s regime. (insert quote). The novel and articles made about the Mirabal sisters will make any one believes in their movement and there is no comparison in that aspect because they are truly the butterfly sisters of our