In the Time of the Butterflies | Characters
Told in a journalistic style, the voice changes from chapter to chapter, presenting the point of view of each of the four sisters. In the background, Trujillo's sinister omnipresence is like a black cloud hovering over the nation. The secret police, the SIM, is there to enforce El Jefe's whims and desires. He is, in many ways, the main character of the story, involving totally the thoughts and feelings of the rest of the characters.
Patria Mercedes Mirabal, eldest of the sisters, is the religious one. "I was afraid that you wouldn't live long, that you were already the way we were here...
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