In the Time of the Butterflies Review

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In the Time of the Butterflies book review In the Time of the Butterflies was set during the Era of Trujillo and so the Mirabal sisters were greatly affected by their dictator’s actions. The Mirabal family was first affected by Trujillo when the sisters’ father Enrique Mirabal went to jail because he and his family had left a party hosted by Trujillo early. He went to jail because it was against the law to leave a party before Trujillo. His time in jail made his health problems worse and he ended up dying as a result. When Minerva was in her twenties, she and her husband, Manolo, joined the movement against Trujillo. Around that time, her youngest sister Maria Teresa had moved in with Minerva and she soon learns that her sister is a revolutionary. One day, Maria Teresa had opened the door for a man with a package for Minerva and her husband. The man at the door, Leandro aka Palomino, had made her become interested in the movement and from then on she became Mariposa #2(Minerva was the first Mariposa, which means butterfly). Their oldest sister, Patria, had once gone on a religious retreat with her church to Constanza. On the last day of the retreat, there was a battle between some soldiers and revolutionaries at the mountain where the church was located. A bomb had hit the church and made part of it collapse, a teenage revolutionary had ran into the church but a soldier came up from behind him, and before he heard Patria’s warning to get down, the soldier shot him square in the back. After that incident, Patria became involved when Minerva asked her to store some of her things on her husband, Pedrito’s, farm. Her oldest son, Nelson, became aware and later involved in the movement. Patria had to influence her husband into joining the movement because he didn’t think it was safe, but he joined later on. After Patria had joined the movement, her church group the

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