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.