Hermanas Mirabal

In Nelly Rosario’s book “Song of the Water Saints”, Rosario write about this five generation Dominican family starring Graciela and her mother Mai, following by her daughter Mercedes, then Mercedes’s daughter Amalfi and finally Lelia, Amalfi’s daughter. One sees similar conflicts with each mother-daughter duo. Therefore, showing how unstable Mother and Daughters relationships were due to different values in each generation valued. Rosario shows the strict relationship between Graciela and…

Julia Alvarez’s novel, In The Time of The Butterflies, depicts the journey to revolutionize under Rafael Trujillo’s regime. The novel focuses on the Mirabal family and their four sisters: Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa. The story’s main plot concentrates on the sisters’ journey to defeat their dictator, Trujillo, who inflicts torture upon them. Together, the sisters unite their country. The sisters and many characters from In The Time of The Butterflies use education, unity, and love…

Conclusion In her community, Ingrid Encalada LaTorre is an exemplary model to her children, family, and peers. To that end, Ingrid worked in service of the elderly, is rearing well-behaved and healthy children, and continually contributes to society; she is not a violent criminal or a threat to national security. Furthermore, when she immigrated, Ingrid chose to find legitimate employment so that she could earn a life in the U.S. Although Ingrid did commit a crime in pursuit of this dream, her…

Another inspiration to Alvarez’s work would be the Mirabal sisters—Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa. Three of the sisters were killed by Trujillo’s henchmen after leading an underground uprising in the Dominican—the same one that Alvarez’s father belonged to—shortly after the family moved back to the…

Short Critical Response “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” In the book, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, by Julia Alvarez shows the lives of four sisters who struggle with finding their own identities in American culture. The four girls named Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia were forced to move out of the Dominican Republic when they were young girls and now struggle to adapt to a new culture that is much different from their social norms. The elements of the text that I…

The film of The Language of Butterflies was released on June 16 in 2000 with the director, José Luis Cuerda. It is about a shy child and his kind teacher in 1936, during the civil war in Spain. Moncho, is afraid to start school, and it is up to the kind and compassionate Don Gregorio to help him. When the civil war begins, the lives of the two are changed. In my opinion, history was an important part of the history of Spain and I will tell you the movie three point seven of five stars. The…

A simile used to describe in figurative language that Mamá took carefully guarded her girls from lustful men who wanted to take advantage of them as a protective mother. The quote illustrates a biblical symbolism and Patria compares herself to Jesus’s resuscitation with her recovery and realization of the harsh circumstances she had suffered from seeing both her son and husband being taken away to prison. A passage that illustrates society and that time. Most Dominican families accustomed to…

Alienation and disorientation in a new country, complexities of family relationships, the place of women in Latino culture, and the politics of class and power in the Dominican Republic are dominant themes in Alvarez’s works. Her personal experiences form the core of her creative endeavors in poetry as well as her fiction writing. Her poems “Sometimes the Words Are Too Close,” “Queens,” and “First Muse,” depict portrayals of family relationships and the Hispanic immigrant experience. However,…

In the time of the butterflies is a novel in which gender issues became a huge factor. Women were meant to be the ones that are supposed to look after the children, and are not allowed to have any other job than that. Gender roles is a huge topic that is being brought forth in this book, because women were not allowed to have certain jobs, or any job at all. Women were needed to be the one to have children and to also be the ones to watch the children along with any other work around the…

“In the Time of the Butterflies” is a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, relating an account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Maria Teresa is the youngest of the four Mirabal sisters. She is very superficial and materialistic in the beginning of the story, but she becomes a resilient, strong-willed revolutionary hero. Further, Maria Teresa is willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of her family’s right for a liberal nation. Maria…