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)
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.
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)
Structural Observations
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
Feeling of Sadness (31,35,37,42)
Guidance of Mante (33,34)
Key Events
she is summoned to the principal's office to vouch for Minerva, who has been sneaking out of school (38,39)
Trujillo's Secrets are revealed (39)
In June, guards come looking for Hilda, who is hiding at Inmaculada Concepcion, pretending to be a student. (41)
She must hand the book over to Minerva because it mentions Hilda.42,43)
Structural Observations
Frame device (Diary)
Labeled Subtopics
Patria
Repeated images, phrases or ideas
God (44,47,49)
Virgencita (46,54,55,56,57,58)
faith (52,58)
Key Events
Struggles against the sexual temptation she feels, tries to listens to God's call (47)
She finds love with Pedrito (49)
She loses her baby and loses some faith (52)
Confesses she heard her calling (48)
Structural Observations
Foreshadowing-The dream she has about her children