Preceden

In the Time of the Butterflies

Mirabal Sisters

Patria

Patria loses faith in her religion

1946

Patria loses her baby and starts to lose faith in God and in Trujillo. Her mother and others go on a religious pilgrimage to the capital Higuey. She then hears the voice of a virgin and her faith is restored(Chapter4).

Minerva giving her child to Patria to take care of

1959

Minerva gives her child to Patria to take care of because she is joining and be apart of the resistance.

Patria home

1959

Patria volunteers her home as a place for resistance meetings.

Patria's marriage

1959

She is 35 years old and has been married for 18 years. Problems are soon going to occur with her husband Pedrito.

She becomes Pregnant with Raul Ernesto

1959

Care Package

1960

Patria creates a care package to send to Minerva and Mate in prison.

Patria Praying

1960

Patria prays and treats Trujillo with respect to try and release her son and husband.

Praising Trujillo

1960

Patria drops on her knees in thanks that Trujillo released her son Nelson. Later this incident appears on the front cover as thanks to Trujillo.

Dede

Dede doesn't go to school

1938

Dede stays home while Patria and Minerva go to boarding school at Inmaculada Concepcion(Chapter2).

Dede goes to priest for guidance

1960

Dede seeks help for if she should join the resistance or not join the resistance. She then finds out the priest is apart of the resistance, she then runs away.

Family and friends arrested

1960

Leandro arrested, Nelson and Pedrito arrested after
their house is ransacked and burned, Manolo arrested, Minerva has tuberculosis, Mate arrested, and Minerva arrested.

Not joining the resistance

1960

Dede does not want to join the revolution but feels that she has drawn Jamito and herself closer to it.

Dede gets an interview

1994

Julia Alvarez comes to interview Dede. She talks about the burden of being the only survivor. She then has a flashback to when her and her sisters were with there parents in 1943. Her dad starts fortune telling for the sisters and mama gets mad at him because she does not believe in fortunes. (Chapter 1).

Epilogue

1994

Dede keeps getting reminded of her past. When she meets Lio at the party he reminds her of the butterflies and how their cause helped them greatly. She hears their sprits every night.

Minerva

Minerva goes to Inmaculauda

1938

Minerva goes to Inmaculada with Patria after begging her father. On the first day Minerva meets Sinita who is at the camp because most of her family has been killed. Minerva tells Sinita about babies and they become best friends, thats when Sinita tells her about "Trujillos Secret". (Chapter 2)

Minerva meets Lina

1941

Minerva meets Lina Lovaton who is a beautiful woman. She becomes close to Lina and every so often Trujillo goes to see Lina. Lina falls in love with Trujillo and she becomes pregnant and she eventually gets sent to Florida.

Minerva Performs and Independence Dance

1944

Minerva and Sinita are chosen to perform for Trujillo and his son. At the end Sinita makes a gesture as if she was going to shoot Trujillo. Trujillo's son beats Sinita.

Minerva finds out her dad has other kids

1949

Minerva's dad won't let her go to university so she stays at home for three years. She goes to a yellow house and finds four girls that have the same eyes as her father. This is when she finds out her dad had been cheating.

Minerva goes to Trujillo's party

1949

Minerva finds a letter from Trujillo asking for her specific presence. Minerva dances with Trujillo and he is to aggressive with her. She slaps him even though she knew she could get in trouble. Trujillo finds out that Minerva knows Lio and her father is kidnapped. Trujillo says he will release him if she has sex with him and she denies.

Minerva's last chapter before dying

1960

Minerva gets out of jail and tries to stay with the revolution. She tries to meet with small groups and people are aware of her and the work of her sister. She spends her time trying to find out how to get her husband out of jail. Trujillo sees her and her sisters as threats which eventually leads to their eventually murder.

Mate

Mate covers for Minerva

1945 - 1946

Minerva is caught sneaking out of school. When asked asked Mate says that Minerva is sneaking out because their uncle is sick. Minerva then explains that Trujillo is a bad man and Minerva has been going to meetings at Don Harcio's house. Minerva was starting to get involved in the revolution.

Mate joins the revolution

1953 - 1958

Mate gets a new diary because she had to burry the last one because it mentioned Hilda in it. She lives with Minerva and gets the diary for her birthday. She gets married to Leondro and moves in with Dede. Their working reports them to the secret police. This is when Minerva and Mate join the revolution.

Mate is in jail

1960

Mate and Minerva go to jail and all their husbands go also but they are separated. She was tortured in front of Leandro.