In the Time of the Butterflies
Dede
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)
Observations on structure
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
Minerva
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)
Maria Teresa
Repeated images, phrases or ideas
Little book
Government
Soul
Key events
lying for Minerva
letters from Berto
handing over book to Minerva (42)
Observations on structure
Subtopic
being there for burying of Patria's baby
handing over book
Patria
Repeated images, phrases or ideas
pregnancy, babies (44, 52)
faith
sexual conflict
Key events
losing baby
losing faith
going on trip with sisters and mother
Observations on structure
seeing dead baby
regaining faith and having an awakening
finding out father is cheating