Change/Epiphany

In chapter 8 Patria witnesses a young boy get shot at the top of a hill by the government. In this moment Patria realizes she does not want to just "sit back and watch [her] babies die..." This event causes Patria to change from someone who will not even support the rebel movement to a women who is willing to oppose Trujillo regime. Patria becomes a committed member of the rebel movement with her sisters in the opposition towards Trujillo. I think the author reveals the theme family relationships because Patria realizes she wants to do whatever it takes to protect her family any little way she can.

Figurative Language

In the novel In the time of the Butterflies there's a varies of figurative language. For example in chapter 7 there is this quote  that says "may the limitations of love not cast a spell on the serious ambitions of my mind."(Alvarez Pg. 122) Personally I feel like this quote means that love can bring you many obstacles and lead you to fall apart or lose yourself. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that this was more than just a quote I felt like this was a symbol. When Minerva gives  Mata this quote I feel like she is saying this in referring to her parents.  As to when Mr. Mirabal Cheats on Mrs. Mirabal and has 4 other kids. In relation to the Author's themes I feel like this falls under the category of family relations. It demonstrates how not every family is perfect and what you do can sometimes impact everyone around you. In some ways your actions can even change the view others have on you.

Conflict In the time of the butterflies

Part one of the novel Patria is expressed as the most giving sister so naturally she considers being a nun.Where her mother "confesses" she was afraid she "wouldn't live long, that she was already here the way we were here to become"(Alvarez Pg. 45) While attending immaculada Concepcion she relies on her teachers for advice in making her decision. Although her teacher is constantly persuading her into a nun, while away for vacation Patria comes to fall in love and realizes she will not become a nun. Another conflict I noticed would include Trujillo a dictator of the Dominican republic. The girls constantly find themselves in conflict with him towards the middle of the book after Minerva and her father attend one of his parties. Trujillo tries to seduce Minerva "I break away, struggling against the sea of guests rushing indoors out of the rain"(Alvarez Pg. 101) although things do not go as planned so Trujillo uses his power to ruin things for Minerva and the rest of her family, even though Minerva constantly rejects him.

Hello, I am Victoria a Freshman student in college. I first came upon In the time of Butterflies by one of my very close friends. She introduced me to the book this past summer when I told her I wanted to study women rights at the  University of Maryland in which i'd be starting in a couple months. She told me that she had read "In the time of the butterflies" last summer and it was a great novel that displayed  how the Maribal Sisters impacted life in the Dominican republic. I decided to start blogging about this book because around the second chapter I realized that I couldn't put it down and not only because it expressed women rights but because i had actually became interested in the story. I wanted to in a way put the story in my own hands dig deeper than the surface and I began to realize I might not be the only one who thinks this way, or even betteothers would have different perspectives from mine.