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This'''''In the Time of the Butterflies''''' is a 1994 book by Julia Alvarez is based on the true story of four sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva and Maria Teresa "Mate" Mirabal, during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The sisters make a political commitment to overthrow the Trujillo regime. They are harassed, persecuted, and imprisoned, their family suffers retaliation from the Military Intelligence Service (SIM), and they are eventually killed. The book presents the perspective of each, including the one surviving sister, Dede. The book was made into a movie starring [[Salma Hayek]] in 2001.
 
The book was made into a movie starring [[Salma Hayek]] in 2001.
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* [[Code Name]]: The Mirabal sisters are known in the resistance movement as "Las Mariposas" (the butterflies), hence the book title.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: For example, Patria and Pedrito are teens when they get married, everyone is aghast that Minerva wants to wear pants and go to college, plus the multiple examples of [[Kissing Cousins]].
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* [[Fourth Date Marriage]]: Patria and Pedrito get married when she is 16 after a few months of dating.
* [[Frame Story]]: The chapters told from the point of view of Dede are presented as Dede recounting stories to an interviewer, and Maria Teresa's chapters are told as diary entries.
* [[Hormone -Addled Teenager]]: Maria Teresa
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Dede and Jaimito are married, and Maria Teresa has a brief [[Love Triangle]] between her two cousins Berto and Raul.
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[The Mistress]]: Papa has another family with a poor woman.
* [[Play -Along Prisoner]]: When Minerva and Mate are imprisoned for their political activities, they are offered a pardon but Minerva refuses because that would imply that they committed a crime.
* [[Poirot Speak]]: Happens a lot with Spanish.
* [[Prison Rape]]: Happens when Minerva and Maria Teresa are in prison.
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* [[Switching POV]]: Switches between the 4 sisters. Most obviously, Dede's chapters are told in limited 3rd person POV while the rest of the sisters' stories are told in first person.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Mama thought that Patria didn't have a long time left on the earth when she was little because she was so loving. Also invoked, because the Mirabal sisters are seen as martyrs (both in the book and in real life).
* [[Very Loosely Based Onon a True Story]]: An example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] here. Julia Alvarez outright admits that she imagined their thoughts and motivations.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: Well, it's more of a "Where Are They in 1994 Epilogue". In a way the last chapter is this. Dede remembers what happened to the families of her 3 sisters and where they are now.
 
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[[Category:Historical Fiction Literature]]
[[Category:In Thethe Time Ofof The Butterflies]]
[[Category:Literature]]
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