Rafael Trujillo

She returned to New York City where she was born after her father’s opposition to dictator of the Dominican Republic, General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo caused their family to be exiled when she was 10. It does not take much insight to figure out that Yoyo is a fictionalized Julia Alvarez, and that the García family is a fictionalized version of her family. The significance this has in reference…

“Large-scale migration from the Dominican Republic to the United States began in the 1960s, in the wake of economic and political turbulence that occurred after dictator Rafael Trujillo was killed by rebels in 1961 and the U.S. military and other government agencies intervened” (Chiamaka Nwosu, Jeanne Batalova). Trujillo also known as “El Jefe” was an extremely brutal dictator whom is responsible for massive amounts of massacre killings. He who cheated his way into power brung fear amongst the…

“I think that when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out” (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 169). Everyone has a way to escape reality, some draw, some listen to music, some take a nap, while others merely read and write, such as Julia Alvarez. The self proclaimed Dominican- American explains so in the Bloomsbury Review as her early life has consisted of many hardships that her writing addresses at one point or another throughout her poetry and novels.…

The book, In the Time of the Butterflies, opens in the Dominican Republic with Dede Mirabal preparing for an interview. The four Mirabal sisters each write from their perspective about living in a time with the dictator Trujillo. The story follows the start of a rebellion that the sisters become the leaders of. Three of the sisters, Maria Teresa, Minerva, and Patria, join the rebellion along with their husbands. Dede is the only one who does not join the rebellion, partly because her husband…

Analysis In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez takes the reader through the lives of the Mirabal sisters as they are living in the Dominican Republic under the rule of Trujillo and leads up to the death of the three sisters, which, was ordered by Trujillo on November 25, 1960 (“In the Time of the Butterflies”). Trujillo was a dictator who controlled his country in every aspect and exterminated those who opposed him including three of the Mirabal sisters who are “symbols of both popular…

that Trujillo existed years before Oscar, and has little to do with America, Trujillo is an important figure and plays as the oppressor in Oscar’s mother’s life. Fragmented hearsay about Trujillo’s atrocities are used to express the common hatred for Trujillo. The focus Oscar’s mother allows the reader to better understand characters around Oscar. Oscar’s grandfather(and father) was imprisoned by Trujillo for treason. Because of this, at a young age, Oscar’s mother was beaten down by Trujillo…

mine. But most especially, I beg you, oh Jefe, give me back my son. Take me instead.” In this novel, family and sacrifice play a major role. The Mirabal family comes together, with much of the Dominican Republic, to overthrow the dictatorship of Trujillo. As a result, three of the four sisters are assassinated by the tyrant’s agents. This book tells their story. Dedé was the only sister to survive. She is the second oldest of the girls and the only one that didn’t join the revolution, although…

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…

The poem “In the Time of Butterflies” written by an online user relates to the general plot of the book because of how it relates to a scene, represents the tone and gives an insight of the motives of most of the sisters. It is a clear representation of a lot of the elements found within the novel. One of the most important scenes in the novel is when Patria, one of sisters, overcomes her fears and joins the rebellion. The poem reflects this scene with a line in the poem, “to fight for our…

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 display a photograph of Trujillo in their houses next to God, as a result, his figure was compared to that of a holy person. In this passage, the “cross” mentioned by Patria is an example of Biblical imagery as Jesus carried. Patria uses a metaphor that…