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In The Time Of The Butterfly - Online Essay

In The Time Of The Butterfly

In chapter 7, Maria Teresa narrates this chapter using her new journal that Minerva brought her. She talks about her father's death and how she keeping having these troubling dreams. In her dream she finds herself looking into her father's coffin and finding a wedding dress inside of the coffin. She than has the same dream again in February, but this time Manolo, Minerva's husband-to-be, is in the coffin. Maria Teresa is outraged not only because she doesn't understand the purpose behind the dreams but also because she later finds out that her dad's mistress and illegitimate children attended the funeral.

In chapter 8 the narrator change and this time it in a different time and Patria ...

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about the movement. Although she was compassionate to it, she does not want to get involved with it because her husband doesn't want to. She discusses her marriage with her husband as well. She says that in 1960 she had some serious issues, but they stayed together despite that. Then she talks about how Minerva and Maria Teresa are arrested with all of their husbands, along with Patria's husband and son, Nelson. Also, Patria's family loses their farm.

While I was reading I kind of gained a sense of courage and death, because in chapter 7 death seems to be present throughout the chapter. Of course, Enrique Mirabal has actually died, and Maria Teresa's recurring dream revolves around a death. But she also uses language that put in the mind frame of death. The chapter opens with her statement, "I feel like dying myself!" When she began to write in her diary again on July 3rd, she writes, "Diary, I know you have probably thought me dead all these months." With those two quotes you ...

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Added: 2/26/2014 09:51:48 PM
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