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In the Time of the Butterflies
I would say that one theme is authoritarianism. That's not a tough theme to explain. Trujillo is in control of a complete dictatorship and rules with an iron fist. That kind of government...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is a slightly fictionalized account, published in 1994, of real events that occurred during the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina in...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Patria became enmeshed in the revolution as a blunt result of something she had witnessed first-hand. While on a mission trip the groups of girls attending the retreat were bombed by Trujillo's...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
'In The Time Of The Butterflies' is the story of the four Maribal sisters who bravely opposed the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in 1961;...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Three months pass before Patria sees her husband, Nelson, and Minerva. In Chapter 19, "January to March 1960" Patria records, It was three months before I laid eyes on her or Minerva or our...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Well, as an Enotes Educator, I cannot write your introduction for you, but I can give you some good ideas to help you begin to write your own. My suggestion is that you begin with some information...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
An allusion is a significant reference to a person, place, idea, event, or work. For example, calling a grumpy, especially greedy person a "Scrooge" is a literary allusion, because it references...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies is an emotional history, rather than one of fact, involving the despotic reign of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic and the...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In Chapter 8 of In the Time of Butterflies, Minerva, Manolo, Nelson, and Leandro arrive at Patria's mother's new house in Conuco where Patria is staying. They awaken her in the night to announce...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Maria Teresa marries Leandro on Valentine's Day, 1958. In Chapter Six, Maria Theresa writes in her diary in 1946: I know the rumor that got started once I’d been living at home a few years. That...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Both Patria and Maria Teresa are heavily influenced by their revolutionary sister Minerva, as well as by all of the suffering they witness as a result of Trujillo's police state. While all three...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
After the stillborn birth of a child, Patria suffers a religious crisis, and she begins to question her loyalty to Trujillo. She doubts her faith in God, too, but she does not yet join her sisters...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In Chapter 12 of The Time of the Butterflies, Minerva, Patria, and Mate are under house arrest with a Captain Pena supervising them. Hearing that OLSA has imposed sanctions, Dede warns her sisters...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez, in her novel of life under the autocratic regime of Rafael Trujillo, long-time dictator of the Dominican Republic, In the Time of the Butterflies, clearly suggests early in her story...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Through Minerva, Alvarez writes, "Something has started which none of us can stop." This "something" is what enables Patria to move to her study foundation. From an almost existential questioning...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In Chapter Four of The Time for Butterflies, Patria Mirabal is now the narrator, and she tells of her religious fervor in her childhood and her interest in becoming a nun. While she attends a...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
At the beginning of Chapter Seven (1953-1958), Maria Teresa is very depressed, writing "I feel like dying" because she has been mourning the death of her father. On December 31, she starts her...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Even in the opening chapter of this book, the fear that characters face through informants who might overhear a casual word spoken unthinkingly is reported and conveyed to the reader. Note how even...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The church finally takes a stand against Trujillo's regime after witnessing the way in which Trujillo ruthlessly bombs and kills his own people. In the novel, Patria witnesses this, and feels a...
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Julia Alvarez
Words can be defined in two different ways. They possess either denotative meaning or connotative meaning. Denotative meaning refers to the dictionary meaning of a word. Connotative meaning refers...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
There is not a specific moment in this novel in which Dede realises what Trujillo has done. Rather, she, just like all the other sisters, become gradually aware of the extent of Trujillo's...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
One of the central reasons is that Dede is devoted to her family and wisely wants to stay away from anything that will jeopardize their safety or her ability to provide for them and keep her safe...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The chapter which contains this episode also contains a scene where Minerva is later interrogated by a member of Trujillo's regime who clearly has the letters in front of him. This comes after the...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
It is important to remember that whilst this novel is based on historical events and real people who actually lived, breathed and died, this text is still a work of fiction. Alvarez herself...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Patria wanted to be a nun papa said what a wast of a pretty girl.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In Dede's final chapter before the novel ends, she reflects on what has happened to her since 1960 and how, in many ways, she still bears the scars of her sisters' deaths and also the double-edged...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Your question identifies the way in which Maria Teresa differs from her other sisters. Perhaps, as befits her position as the baby of the family, her whimsical nature is part of her identity as the...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Maria Teresa's story is one of growth. She is very superficial and materialistic early in the story, and becomes a tough, committed revolutionary later. One poignant quote is when she describes her...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez wrote In the Time of the Butterflies in 1994; it is a historical novel about the real-life Mirabal Sisters, who plotted revolution against the Trujillo government in the 1930s...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Because this novel is written in a way that uses all four sisters' voices as individual narrators of their part of the story, you could examine the difference in tone between the four sisters. The...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The most clear example of sibling rivalry that occurs in this excellent novel is in the way that Dede and Minerva unknowingly compete with each other for the attentions of Virgilio Morales. This...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Key points to focus on in this section of this amazing novel is the way that the tension increasingly mounts. There is the threat of a massacre as soldiers drive up and identity Minerva, and then...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In Julia Alvarez's book, In the Time of Butterflies, there are several symbols. First, as noted in the title, butterflies are significant. (This supports the theme of "change and transformation.")...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
If we read the book carefully we understand that, although the sisters were very important figures for the revolution against Trujillo's regime, at the same time it was only through their death...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Butterflies symbolize freedom- you can't cage a butterfly [okay, so maybe you can, but for the sake of my point, you know]. Butterflies seem to have a bouyant energy which the sisters [excluding...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The themes in In the Time of the Butterflies, according to eNotes, are the following: 1. Change and Transformation 2. Courage and Cowardness 3. Family Life 4. Gender Roles While there are a few...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Are you refering to the discovery that they make regarding their father's infidelity and the way that they have a number of half sisters? If so, this is a discovery that Minerva makes in Chapter...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
because i was something very personal to her plus she was scared that somehow they would track it back to her and something bad would happen to her and her family Hope It Helped :)
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In the Time of the Butterflies
This novel has a unique structure in that the first chapter is told in the present day from the voice of Dede, the only surviving Maribel sister who reflects back on the past and on her sisters'...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
It is clear from the novel that these three characters are definitely not viewed as heroes in the same way as the three sisters who are killed for the revolutionary cause they are working to...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The use of the moon symbolically seems to indicate the level of violence at each stage in this incredible novel. The moon seems to act as some kind of gauge of the level of safety or danger of the...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
These two sisters are very important in this excellent novel that speaks of political repression and the battle of women to fight against it. Although there are some similarities between Dede and...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
This is a very important chapter for the development of the character of Maria Teresa, as we see her in prison and having to face the realities of punishment, abuse and torture. Based on this,...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The first mention of any of the Mirabal sisters being referred to as a butterfly comes in Chapter Seven, which is narrated by Maria Teresa. She goes to stay with Minerva and Manolo, yet one night...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
It is fascinating to examine how each of the four sisters responds to the terror of the Trujillo regime. Minerva, out of all of them, is the first to be involved in the rebel movement, thanks to...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
This is actually one of the most disturbing scenes that I found when I read this book. Chapter Eleven narrates how Maria Teresa, the youngest of the four Maribel sisters, is taken from her cell,...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
If you look back carefully at Chapter Five of this amazing novel, you can see that the animosity that exists between Dede and Minerva has its roots in the conflict they have over a man. When...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Well, remember that in this novel the relationship between Minerva and Manolo changes as the action progresses. Their relationship doesn't really start off very well as Manolo is unfaithful to...
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Unfortunately, you need to remember that the book presents us with all four of the sisters and their own separate characters, identities and journeys to becoming rebels against Trujillo's regime....
