En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas

Select a line or so of poetry , or a moment or scene in a novel that you find especially memorable. Write an essay in which you identify the line or the passage, explain its relationship to the work in which it is found, and analyze the reason for its effectiveness.

A butterfly is a species which cannot cause anything else other than a smile or a warm feeling to any person so than seeing such a thing being smashed or killed would cause a great sadness if you are being told in a very descriptive manner of how it looked so perfect and than later on how it is killed. In the Time of the Butterflies we are set to presence the brutal murder of the three sisters which breaks the readers heart and hope of the story and that is what makes the novel so much stronger than if the sisters would have remained alive. We are used to having a happy ending for each story and we have even learned to look forward to how it will probably end that way. In this novel the end for almost all of the main characters is death and it is depicted as brutal.
In this novel we are put through the whole entire novel with the growth of each of the narrators and grow accustomed with them and their way of telling the story and when the three sisters are killed we are put through suffrage. After analyzing the story we can tell that the author did everything on purpose. First she gives us four narrators to the story, which leads us to becoming attached to their way of thinking, their ideas, and their experiences. Then we are shown their problems and how they are trying to over throw Trujillo and that they are women fighting and doing this. That part is what brings them out as butterflies, they are delicate and yet so persistent like a butterflies beauty. This builds up to the scene were they are brutally killed. Since they are compared to butterflies their death is a sacrifice which leads them to a Christ like figure which also brings out the purity of what they were fighting for. The purity of what they were fighting for was freedom which is a life given gift of being born.
The ending with the murder of the three sisters is a very important scene because it is the base of what these young ladies were fight in for and that their sacrifice was well worth it because they encouraged people to fight for freedom. Julia Alvarez nails this feeling of need to keep on fighting with the brutal death of the three sisters as if saying that at least it was worth it and that this is the feeling the Dominican people had after this incident to the reader for personal understanding of the novel.

In the Time of the Butterflies Movie

In Agust 19 of 2001 In the Time of the Butterflies Movie was released starring Salma Hyek and Marc Anthony portraying Julia Alvarez novel. This movie was a great hit for it had a lot of everything from romance, laughter with their childhood parts and action with all the Minerva sisters did. This novel was well worth the gift of being produced as a movie.

Lady Butterflies

In this novel we are shown how significant these four young ladies became to the Dominican people since the fought through so much in their struggle in the underground passage the were moving. The are so important since the showed that life is to important to just let themselves be manipulated under a dictatorship. These girls represent strength, perseverance, liberty, and justice since these four elements were there reasons for their actions. This novel not only portray Dominicans and what they were fighting for but the human race and the rights we should be granted just for being alive and that is why this novel had such a great impact on the people and their response was high. These four girls have a special place in the minds of everyone that is encountered with their story.

Las Butterflies

So four young ladies growing up in the Dominican Republic are the narrators of this novel and the question is "Why all four narrators and not just one?". These four young ladies seem to see life completely different from each other and at the beginning it seems as if they are all wound up in childish things but they actually portray the life style they were having to follow under the control of Trujillo. Julia Alvarez probably wrote the novel from different points of view so that we could put ourselves in one of those four girls shoes and understand or picture ourselves in a place like that with those problems. Also we are taught how they end up with the same ideals in their own way and that they are called Las Mariposas or The butterflies. It is important to understand that this story is Started by Dede the surviving sister which brings life to the story and that is why it is hard to understand Julia Alvarez idea of writing this novel with more than one narrator.

Mariposas

"A never failing part of a Mariposa is to be perfect,with no other option than beauty but yet so delicate and than again their beauty is persistent."

En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas by Julia Alvarez was published 1994 in Spanish then translated to English by Rolando Costa Picazo as In the Time of The Butterflies. This novel won The National Books Award in 1994, with its captivating characters and their struggles with fighting for freedom from the control of Trujillo.

Julia Alvarez

Being born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic Julia Alvarez incorporates her experiences and feelings in her novels which have had great success. Julia Alvarez first came to be recognized with her novel, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which in a way portrays her families and many immigrants hindrances to fit in to this society.