In The Time Of The Butterflies Book Report

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In the Time of the Butterflies By: Julia Alvarez
I chose this book because the plot sounded like it was loaded with the potential to be a riveting book. From the beginning of the book readers know the ending, which means the rest of the story must have an incredible build up. The novel is a fictionalized version of the four Mirabal sisters’ lives and their revolutionary activity under the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. The narration switches between each of the sisters where they all tell their own stories about the torture and horrors of the life under Trujillo’s rule. Three of the brave sisters were murdered in cold blood and the fourth sister lives on to tell their tale of the revolutionary mariposas.
For a book that contains a dictator, rebellion, torture and imprisonment I expected more emotion and outrage in the writing that I could connect with, but felt it was lacking the feel of the experience the entire time. When things happen in the plot Alvarez says them very matter-of-factly, for example; “there were the Perozos, not a man left in that family. And Martínez Reyna and his wife murdered in their bed, and thousands of Haitians massacred at the border, making the river, they say, still run red…” On top of everything else the ending is not the dramatic explanation of the ambush like expected, but rather the butterflies deaths …show more content…
The themes of freedom and confinement were well executed to connect the girls to the butterflies throughout the novel. Minerva, an idealist in the rebellion, “watch[es] the rabbits in their pens...open[s] a cage to set a half-grown doe free…” but the rabbit is “used to her little pen. ‘Silly bunny, I thought. You’re nothing at all like me.’” Her encounter with the rabbit not wanting to be freed foreshadows later events in the book similarly to other symbols Alvarez uses to deepen the story as she is able

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