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Summary Of In The Time Of The Butterflies By Julia Alvarez

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In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, fits many story structures, such as tragedy and hero’s journey because so many events happen in the book, the events could be looked in many different views. In the Time of the Butterflies fit a tragedy structure because people were cheating and harming others. Cheating and harming others is unethical behavior. Minerva founds out that her father been having an affair with a woman named Carmen and they had four daughters together. This story also contains betrayal as a structure. Then, Dictator Trujillo ordered his troops to murder three of the four Mirabal sisters and Sinita’s family. In the Time of the Butterflies is also structured as a hero’s journey because the novel is about four sisters
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