In the Time of the Butterflies

Minerva

repeated images, phrases or ideas

Garden imagery (3, 4, 5, and 8)

Museum (1, 5, 6, and 7)

Portraits (5, 6)

key events

Dede’s interview

Papa’s Fortunes (8)

Silent panic of the family after
Papa’s drunken remarks (10)

Structural Observations

Flash back (8)

Frame Device (interview)

Frame story (Dede the survivor is the
story that surrounds the inside story of the sisters)

Foreshadowing (8)- Papa’s fortune for Dede.

repeated images, phrases or ideas

Secrets (16, 17, 23, 27)

Blood (menstruation and cut) (15, 18, 20)

Family (15, 17, 24)

key events

Papa lets Minerva go to school (12)

Minerva befriends Sinita (14)

Lina’s fate reveals Trujillo’s truth to Minerva (23)

Minerva protects Sinita (28)

observations on structure

Foreshadowing (14)- the room of veils foreshadows Lina’s outcome

Foreshadowing (28)- Minerva saves the day foretells her leadership in the movement

Labeled subtopics (11, 20, 24)

Lines between passages (time jumps)

repeated images, phrases or ideas

Subtopic

key events

Subtopic

observations on structure

Subtopic