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.