She currently lives at Salcedo province at the house where they where raised. Maria Argentina Minerva Mirabal (March.12.1926- Nov.25.1960)was the third sister she was very outspoken.Minerva always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. And she wanted to end Trujillo’s dictatorship. She refused Trujillo’s romantic propositions and as a result she was decline the necessary licenses to work as a lawyer. Minerva was the first to get Involved in a movement against the regimen call the‘‘fourth-teen of July’’.
The Mirabal Sisters All four of the Mirabal sisters were women of courage, bravery, and motivation. They sacrificed their lives and left behind their children in order to better the government and structure of their country. Minerva and Maria Theresa were imprisoned and placed on house arrest for taking part in the underground movement to overthrow Trujillo. Patria’s son and husband were arrested and her house was reclaimed by the government. Dede’s marriage also suffered because she assisted her sisters during the movement.
Iris started to disobey Chanda’s order, makes Soly in believing her that if one day, everyone die she would live with her father and leave Soly alone by himself. This shows how children in this area of the world threaten someone who’s younger because they miss someone who they loved, and how important their mother is to them. One day Iris and Soly was over at Mrs.Tafa’s place. Chanda called them to come home, but they refused to listen to her. Chanda wrestled Iris to the ground and sat on her.
Marlene worked in sales and Richard went off to the army, which their divorce shortly followed. Richard did not keep in contact and Marlene worked a lot leaving Luna and Mark as latch key children to raise themselves. Marlene, several years after her separation from Richard started to date a man named Ron and Luna (age 4) did not like him because she knew he was not her father. Ron on occasion would drink, smoke, have affairs, and was abusive verbally, emotionally, and physically to Marlene, and sometimes to Mark, and Luna. Luna grew up feeling that she did not belong to this family and that she was adopted.
He does not know the news. Later on Miguel tries to comfort Esperanza but pulls away from his hand because he is poor. L. When her mother and grandmother come back from the priest, Tio Luis who is her uncle wants to make a deal. M. Her uncle asks Esperanza’s mom to marry him, because she cannot support her family now that she is widowed. Esperanza is shocked and hates him.
This decision has far-reaching consequences for her relationship with her parents and her relationship with her sister. But far more importantly her sister's life hangs in the balance if she decides she does not want to undergo any more medical intervention. Therefore fire symbolizes the relationships within the Fitzgerald family, evidenced in part by Picoult’s choice of Carl Sandburg’s poem “Kin” as the epigraph for the opening chapters. “Brother, I am fire Surging under the ocean floor. I shall never meet you, brother Not for years, anyhow; Maybe thousands of years, brother.
One day Gustavo went to his country Spain then he never showed up again, Celia was very upset and she lost living her will to live. Though she has no known medical condition, she wastes away due to depression. While she is housebound, Jorge del Pino, courts her and persuades her to marry him. After their honeymoon, he leaves her at home with his mother and sister while he goes on long business trips, punishing her out of his jealousy for her past with Gustavo. His mother and sister are cruel to Celia, even more so after she becomes pregnant.
Countries revolt against their pernicious overseers; people rebel against theirs. Tita, after having been denied the freedom to express her love to Pedro, reconciled herself to playing with Roberto, Pedro’s son. But when even that was taken from her, she couldn’t just continue to comply with Mama Elena’s decisions and go back to work. For the first time, she refused to silently accept it. She screamed at Mama Elena that she is “sick of them [her orders]” and “sick of obeying you [Mama Elena]” (Esquivel 99).
Later on in the movie , after mixing with Rohana and Rohani he forgives his mother and goes to visit her. This is known as external attribution as his behavior was influence by situation he was in. For Brian, his mother contributed to his experiences. He blames his mother for not saving him when his dad humiliated him by leaving him by the side of the road naked as a child. He took it out on her by not visiting her and being rude and cold towards her.
Although not truly apparent until the very end of the novel Grants life has taken a complete turn since the beginning when he refused to help Jefferson. Grant starts out denying the requests of Miss Emma and Tante Lou, he finally is forced into it and is unsuccessful, and then he begins to develop a bond with Jefferson and gets serious about changing his life. Finally, he gets through to Jefferson and is brought to tears the day of the execution. “Irene Cole told the class to rise, with their shoulders back. I went up to the desk and turned to face them.