Summary Of In The Times Of The Butterflies By Julia Alvarez

In the Times of the Butterflies is a historical novel written by Julia Alvarez in 1994. The writers of the historical novel usually put the situation and the setting of the story in a specific time period in the past. In most situations, the writers usually refer the history, and they use it as a model to craft their story. And the writers always use the accurate information of the historical events to develop their stories. But sometimes, writers like to change the time setting or the actions that happened in the historical events in order to keep the story going or add some depths to it, or add some traits to a character. And today, I am going to list two scenes from the historical novel In the Time of the Butterflies. And later research

The narrator of chapter 6 is Minerva. Alvarez mentions that Minerva was trying to study law at a law school. But the problem was her dad was stubborn and he was unwilling to let his daughter to go to a law school to study. Despite the obstacles from her father, Mineva still wanted to go to a law school to study. And she used the power of the cruel dictator--Trujillo--to force her dad to agree to her desire. Some of the proofs from the book are: “I’ve always wanted to study law”(Alvarez, 1994, page 55); “I’m not interested in admirers until I have my law degree”(Alvarez, 1994, page 55); “I mean, my dream of going to law school.”(Alvarez, 1994, page 65). These sentences strongly show the desire of Minerva to go to the law school and they show Minerva was a smart girl--she would manipulate someone in order to get the things she

I knew the father of the Mirabal sisters got in prison after I read chapter 6. The reason why Papa got in prison was he left the communist party before Trujillo; that was an action that against the laws in the Dominican Republic. The proofs of that from the book are: “We already know from Dedé and Patria’s searches that Papa has been in the prison hospital”(Alvarez, 1994, page 63); “ ‘Trujillo is the law,’ Papa whispered, as we all did nowadays when we pronounced the dreaded name”(Alvarez, 1994, page 49). These sentences show that Trujillo had all the power and anyone who was against him would be