ipl-logo

The Butterflies Thesis

782 Words4 Pages

In The Time of The Butterflies Final Essay A person’s life can completely change in the blink of an eye. Whether it’s for the better or for the worst. For these four sisters it was the worst. The Mirabal sisters were on top of the world when it began to crumble from beneath their feet. Soon, they would lose everything, including each other. Maria Teresa Mirabal, a young girl living in the Dominican Republic is eager as ever to grow up. Maria Teresa wanted to go to the Christian Boarding School alongside her sisters. She begged and begged Mama and Papa to let her go. They wouldn’t budge and were only getting frustrated with Mate (Maria Teresa’s nickname). One day Mate put up a good argument and suddenly the tides were changing and Papa …show more content…

Jaimito was very abusive and ruled Dede’s life. He screamed at Dede, pushed her around, and hit her. Dede’s sisters were out making a significant and dignifying change in their country and all Dede wanted was to be a part of it. Dede finally decided she had had enough and went completely behind her abusive husbands back and joined the revolution. Her sisters denied letting her in, and Dede grew more and more frustrated with her sisters for joining the revolution. Soon she would finally to her senses and realized the true dangers of the revolution. A violent, merciless, and just all out cruel man backed by an entire army was after Dede’s sisters. The Mirabal sisters were the most wanted people in the entire Dominican Republic and had barely any weapons to defend themselves. Dede was losing her mind worrying sick about her sisters and one night screamed at Minerva for joining the revolution. One day Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa and their driver Rufino were on their way to visit Minerva and Mates’ husbands in prison. They ended up chasing a truck when they were seized. The sisters and Rufino were beaten to death and their bodies were loaded into the Jeep. The Jeep was then pushed off the edge of the cliff. One minute Dede was yelling at her sisters the next Dede was wishing she could’ve saved them. Dede still, to this day, wonders what would’ve happened if she had joined the revolution. Could she have saved them? Or would she had been killed too, and sitting at the bottom of that cliff with them. Dede lost everything in the blink of an

Show More
Related
239 Words | 1 Pages

This is not a development, in fact, this is a shelter. Her family’s room has peeling paint, cockroaches, no water, refrigerator, or stove. Miss Garcia hints that all her assignments have to do with 9/11. Déja has never heard of 9/11 and is completely dumbfounded. So, she tries to figure out who she is and what it means to be American with her best friends Ben and Sabeen.

Read More
725 Words | 3 Pages

In the Time of the Butterflies is a book about 4 sisters, Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa. The book is about the three girls growing up and their experiences during the time of the underground movement to overthrow Trujillo. The book was written in memory of Dedé’s 3 sisters who had been ambushed and murdered, which we are aware of since the beginning of the novel. The beginning chapter of the book is describing Dedé as she waits for a woman who is going to interview her about her three sisters, she then goes into a flashback she has of her family talking at the dinner table and her father mentions someone named Trujillo, which then gives a hint at who this book might be formed around. Through the book, we read stories about times in the girls’ lives when they were going to school at Inmaculada Concepcion and being at home and falling in love, as well as there run ins with Trujillo himself.

Read More
1730 Words | 7 Pages

As the girls reached the top of the hill they achieved their goal of reaching their abuelita's house in Hacienda Dorada. It is really important because all of the enemies the girls have faced and all of the challenges they worked through together were all to get to their abuelita's house and find out about their father. After the sisters completed their goal and made it back to their home they finished the transformation part of their journey. It was concluded when Odilia kicked her and her sister's father out, “My hermanitas gathered around us, clinging to Mama. “This is our house.

Read More
573 Words | 3 Pages

However their stories and actions were told by their youngest sister Dede. Dede brought their story and death to light as well as their hopes and dreams they had fought their life for. As Patria mentioned of creating a world without corruption and tyranny for the their future children. The Mirabal sisters threw their lives on the line by joining the underground resistance against the Regime of Trujilo and sacrificed everything to get a better

Read More
960 Words | 4 Pages

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is mainly about four girls named Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia and how they are forced to move to the United States of America. The novel expresses how they struggle adapt and the challenges they face during this transition. The challenges they face are quite similar to the discriminations that black people experienced during those times. The family originally lived in the Dominican Republic in a big house with maids.

Read More
915 Words | 4 Pages

From the start of the novel Dedé has been very noncontroversial. When her sisters are going to school she volunteers to stay home and help their father with the shop. Later on when her sisters encourage her to join in the movement against Trujillo Dedé’s husband, Jaimito, tells her she can not join. Following her husbands orders, “Dedé sent Patria a note: Sorry Jaimito says no.

Read More
1029 Words | 5 Pages

Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies is a work of historical fiction set in the Dominican Republic that focuses on the four Mirabal sisters who bond together to rebel against the corrupt leader of their country, Rafael Trujillo. The four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa form closer relationships with each other as they figure out a way to bring down the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo. Although they have a mutual goal, each of the Mirabal sisters has different feelings and thoughts throughout this time period. The theme of coming-of-age and identify is best exemplified through the character of María Teresa, known as Mate, through the ways she matures throughout the novel and becomes her own person who stands up for what she believes in.

Read More
741 Words | 3 Pages

It provides a role in character development shown predominantly in Patrias character. It shows the extent of Trujillo’s actions against the Dominican people by showing Patrias desperateness for her son. These examples depicted in the book show how the theme of religion has an impact on In the Time of the

Read More
804 Words | 4 Pages

Trujillo gets worried when he learns about the 14th of June Movement because he knows that the goal of the movement is to overthrow or kill him. One by one, he starts jailing members of the movement, as well as ransacking or destroying their homes. At Patria’s house, Trujillo has the SIM tear “...the house apart, hauling away the doors, windows, the priceless mahogany beams of Pedrito’s old family rancho” (Alvarez 192). The way that he messes with those involved in the movement is cruel. After having their homes ransacked, Trujillo jails only the Mirabal husbands, which makes the sisters think they are safe.

Read More
598 Words | 3 Pages

but she couldn’t because of her husband “Even so that night, her ears still ringing from Jaimito’s shout, Dedé had been ready to risk her life. It was her marriage that she couldn’t put on the line” (Alvarez, 177). Dede, the sister who did not actively participate in the revolution wishes she could have. It was her marriage that stopped her from joining her sisters. She believed her country needed to be free from Trujillo

Read More
510 Words | 3 Pages

The author wants us to think that deja is an angry child who’s frustrated at her dad, her home, and her life.when in reality she is a confused child.us the reader can see a clear example when deja tells her father about 9/11 and he freaks out and threatens to make her move schools, deja fights back making the claim this is the only school she ever liked.after that she just cries because she knows she can't win by herself.this conveys the idea that she is frustrated at her father and her life all because of what she knows. But Deja doesn’t know why she has to be punished for that

Read More
770 Words | 4 Pages

Lastly, Tiny Soderball was a hired immigrant just alike Lena. Tiny was always getting in trouble with the men so all of the other citizens looked at her differently. Tiny did not settle with that and she then decided to travel to Alaska and take part in the Gold Rush. Tiny opened up her own hotel and grew a fortune. Lena, Ántonia, and Tiny go against the traditional female role, they maintain their independence and they take risks causing them to end up very successful.

Read More
2008 Words | 9 Pages

All of the three female characters are honest and realistic and they narrate stories about their sufferings in their lives as victims of their society, but in a comic way. Cunegonde is the most important female character in the book. She is Candide’s beloved, who retells the events of the opening chapters from her own perspective. The old woman narrates her tragic life story in chapters 11 and 12. She suffered in her youth as she was a princess, but ended up being abused and sold as a slave several times in Morocco and in other different countries.

Read More
906 Words | 4 Pages

She did not represent a threat to him or to his relationship with the descamisados precisely because she was a woman. Furthermore, as his wife, she was part of him, an extension of him, and since all her actions appeared endorsed by him, from the very first moment, she had a substantial latitude to exert her influence. She strengthened her position by asserting her power to influence decisions and by contributing to the Peronization of labor unions. Her activities in the ministry of labor were the basis of the political power she accumulated from 1948 onward. In so doing she defined a new identity for herself.

Read More
511 Words | 3 Pages

In search for a better life outside of the Dominican Republic, Anita’s whole family tries to move to America. One day sitting in her room, Anita look out her window to see no one left on the compound. Anita explains, “I look out the door and down the dark driveway. The whole flock of our family has fled. Only Mami and Chucha and I are left (pg.100 p.9).”Her whole family has gone to America to be free, leaving everything behind.

Read More

More about The Butterflies Thesis

Related Topics

Open Document