People murdered in the Dominican Republic

to light that their fearless actions- and even deaths- is what spurred on the revolution and led to its success. Without the Mirabal sisters selflessly stepping up on behalf of their country, it could’ve been our whole nation that was eventually murdered as opposed to just their family. During the time that Minerva and Maria Teresa spent in jail, they gave up their comfortable lives…

the definitions are two opposites, then the in-between space is more rich”. Indeed, this kind of “in-between space” doesn’t only exist between nature and architecture or between inside and outside, but also, it exists as a narrative space for the Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez. In this paper, I would like to elaborate on the term, the “in-between space”, which was brought up by Kelli Lyon Johnson in her article “Both Sides of the Massacre: Collective Memory and Narrative on…

eleven-year-old Anita, who is faced with coming of age during a chaotic time where both friends and family are faced with difficult, life threatening decisions. Everyone is living under a cruel dictator named Rafael Trujillo in the 1960s in the Dominican Republic. Anita’s family has to endure hardships as they try to overthrow the dictator, which her father and uncle are in a plot trying to assassinate him. Anita’s family made sacrifices that showed perseverance because the family was monitored…

caused the deaths of more than 11 million people. Jewish, gay, and mentally ill people were hunted down and herded into concentration camps, violating their right to life. The master had taken a slave and slaughtered him ruthlessly. This unjust treatment lasted from 1933 to 1945. Twelve years of suffering of millions of individuals due to the choice to pursue authoritarianism. 4,812 miles away, Rafael Trujillo, another dictator, reigned over the Dominican Republic. The country was poor and…

He knew that these people were major advocates in the revolution, and their eyes were open to the unjust acts he was performing. Sinita Perozo, a friend of Minerva’s throughout boarding school, uncles and brothers were assassinated because they knew too much of his corrupted way of becoming into office, his disturbing deaths he placed on people, and wanted to overthrow him. He did not want people like the Butterflies to ignite a revolution and an assignation…

Haiti is a little-known country that has a rich history that many people do not know due to the punitive conditions witnessed in the ancient centuries. Persecutions and the violence directed to her people by the invaders were the norms. Haiti’s history has not been in the limelight, perhaps due to the distance from far countries such as the United States of America. Some countries such as the Dominican Republic and Spain has refuted the cruel historical happenings in Haiti because they…

perdonarte? Porque nunca lo lamentaste de verdad.”(Vargas Llosa, 102) This is a quote from one of the books main characters Urania Cabral, a main character whose purpose serves not just to give an interesting story. She represents a group of oppressed people who still suffered consequences brought from Trujillo era in present day. This quote not only echoes with Urania but all the main characters, as how can they ever truly forgive a person who never had any remorse to begin with? Ultimately all…

sisters—’” (Alvarez 166) The embodiment of Patria Mirabel's character is this quote, a woman who dedicated her life to terminating and rebirthing the government system of her home country, the Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies revolves around the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic—the dictator being Rafael Trujillo, also known as El Jefe—and the four Mirabel sisters, named Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dede. These sisters are what started…

Minevra, Patria, and Mate to join a underground organization of revolutionists where they assisted in smuggling and hiding illegal guns in their household, and helped in plot fighting against the government. Although, Trujillo convinced the people of the Dominican Republic that Lio’s ideas were a form of communism, which created him into an enemy of the state and caused him to flee. Following the Mirabal sisters and their father invite to a ball hosted by Trujillo, their names became known to…

Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past Fitzgerald and Alvarez wrote about the American Dream and although it seems they both view it differently, in actuality, the stories they tell are different sides of the same coin. In The Great Gatsby the reader experiences the classic American Dream. In which, a young man, born into poverty, pulls himself up by his bootstraps and is able to become immensely rich, and it's all in the name of love. However, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the…