In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

How the view of this one man slowly changed in each one of them. The book tells the story of how each sister dealt with the revolution and dealt with the dictator Trujillo. The story goes through there lives as children to adult hood and how they became La Mariposa (The Butterflies).

As Julia Alvarez tells the story of the four sisters through the eyes of each one, she humanizes them so people know what these girls did can be achieved by anyone. As the result of their deaths it librated the DR. Three of which as a known fact from history have died tragically at the hands of a cruel dictator. Julia alvarez' 'In the time of the butterflies' tells the story of four sisters - The Mirabal Sisters- growing up in the Dominican Republic. i wrote a review essay for school so im sticking some here. This inspired portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression, and is destined to take its place alongside Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende's The House of the Spirits as one of the great 20th-century Latin American novels. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies).

On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders.

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez