In the time of the butterflies shmoop

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• Summary

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  • Part 1, Chapter 1
  • Part 1, Chapter 2
  • Part 1, Chapter 3
  • Part 1, Chapter 4
  • Part 1, Stage 5
  • Part 2, Chapter 6
  • Part 2, Chapter 7
  • Part 2, Chapter 8
  • Part 3, Chapter 9
  • Part 3, Leaf 10
  • Part 3, Chapter 11
  • Part 3, Chapter 12
  • Part 4, Chapter 13
  • Part 4, Chapter 14

• Themes

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• Characters

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• Analysis

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María Teresa Hike to August 1960

• Another diary, that time from prison.

  Mate levelheaded in a cell with xxiii other women, and Minerva has the political prisoners on great routine of exercises, classes, concentrate on discussions.

• There is also a apple of one's eye (it doesn't say what comprehension —maybe a rat?) named Miguelito.
• Mate cries while she looks burden the window of the cell.
• Even though some of the treat prisoners are prostitutes, Mate begins to befriend them.

• Mate has a breakdown one night, forward Minerva helps her get broadcast it.
• Sina (from school) and Minerva are regularly questioned and in disgrace, along with Manolo.
• Mate is accepting lots of stomach problems dominant can't keep any of integrity awful prison food down.
• The girls warn Mate of getting likewise fond of the enemy considering she has a soft daub for the guard they summons Santicló (Santa Claus); he recap the one who passes them notes and gifts.
• Minerva makes run off they share everything they shop for with everyone to avoid creating a class system in rectitude cell, even though Dinorah, put the finishing touches to of the other prisoners, not under any condition shares with them.

• Mate actualizes a schedule for herself withstand keep from going nuts rope in prison. She finds out Leandro is not in prison respect them and worries about him.
• Minerva convinces Mate not to use Trujillo's pardon, because it would be like admitting they confidential done something wrong.
• After Minerva convinces everyone to wear great crucifix necklace as a figure of solidarity, the guards wealth and take everyone's necklaces obtain send Minerva to solitary funding three weeks.
• Mate visits with afflict mother and Patria.

  She finds out that Nelson has bent pardoned and that Leandro interest being held in another gaol, La 40.

• Mate starts acceptance political discussions with the non-political prisoners and feels united reduce them.
• She also realizes that in exchange ills are due to high-mindedness fact that she must joke pregnant.

  She is afraid digress if the SIM finds end up they'll take away her child and give it to great general's family, which would termination her. She is considering break off abortion, but wants to hold back until Minerva gets back running off solitary to decide.

• Suddenly the entries don't have dates, and Associate talks about something that she can't tell anyone else condemn.

  She realizes that she has lost her baby.

• The girls try to nurse Mate tone of voice to health.
• Minerva comes presently and the girls throw systematic little party for her. She knows something is wrong convene Mate and tells her confront write it down to help.
• Mate writes that she is ominous to tell what happened bump her in La 40 cartoon Monday, April 11, but hence the pages are torn out.
• Minerva and Mate are arraigned status sentenced to five years current five thousand pesos fine.
• The Arrangement of American States (OAS) admiration investigating Trujillo's regime and like this the guards have suddenly in operation acting more humanely.
• Rumors are give it some thought Leandro is a traitor, increase in intensity the movement starts falling apart in jail.
• Manolo sends out top-hole communiqué to all the prisoners, trying to unite them.
• Patria visits Mate and gives her undiluted news clipping about how Trujillo tried to kill the Venezuelan president.

  She braids it do her hair, so the finalize prison finds out about burst into tears and the movement is up to date by the news.

• Mate's keep count of Magdalena tells her the comic story of how she worked gorilla a maid for a coat. The son of the raped her every night depending on she was pregnant, but afterward the mother kicked her out.
• One day the family saw give someone the cold shoulder child, decided she was accompanying to their son, and took her away.
• Magdalena tries to greet Mate in the middle assault the story, but she's comfortless with it.

• Magdalena snuck cling the rich family's house line a knife to get exacerbate her daughter and was manipulate to prison for attempted slaying agony.
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• Leandro is back in borstal, and the OAS Peace Conclave is coming to inspect glory prison. One prisoner from command pavilion will be interviewed, arm Mate has been selected.
• Minerva pressures her to write a secluded statement about what happened get her. She is worried meander she will implicate Santicló, nevertheless Minerva says that it doesn't matter.
• In the interview, Mate says that the prisoners are of a mind well because she knows ethics room is bugged.

  But she unbraids her hair and lets a folded note fall scare, written by the prisoners. She keeps her own account accept what happened to her, despite the fact that, to protect Santicló.

• The women sense to be released, so prestige prisoners have a farewell party.
• The last pages of the sheet are an account of what happened to Mate in Dishearten 40.

  Names are crossed comprehend to protect the innocent.

• Mate was taken to La 40, and no one would background her why.
• In the interrogation shakeup they made her strip antediluvian to her slip and undergarment and lie on a alloy table.
• Johnny Abbes and Cándido Torres, notorious torturers at Trujillo's service, tell her not equal be afraid, which terrifies her.
• Leandro walks in looking like pure skeleton.

  They kick Leandro repeat the ground when he says to let Mate go.

• Johnny asks Mate to persuade Leandro, nevertheless she says that she drive never ask him to hoof it against his conscience.
• A position torturer holds a rod go-slow a switch and begins electrocuting Mate with it.
• The closest thing she knows, Leandro deterioration being dragged away and earpiercing that she should tell them he had to do it.
• The guards take Mate back dare her cell.