At the end of one of their group rosaries, she says, "May I never experience all that it is possible to get used to.". A urologist in Santiago. One of Dede's visitors, who reports that he was listening to the radio when he heard the crash of the car carrying the bodies of her sisters. Virgilio Morales, "a tall thin man" with thick, wire-rimmed glasses. He also has remarried and started a new family. She is educated and leads the revolutionary meetings in the cell along with Minerva. One of the Mirabals' cousins, on whom Maria Teresa has a crush as a young girl. One of the distributors of Enrique Mirabal's store, who introduces Dede and Minerva to Lio. One of the nuns at Inmaculada Concepcion, who allows Sinita to go to school there for free. The daughter of Maria Teresa and Leandro. Her full name is Patria Mercedes Mirabal. Sorry! Victor Alicinio Pen, the head of the northern division of the SIM. Mama's uncle, who knew Trujillo during their early days in the military. Sorry! These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. Her sections of In the Time of the Butterflies are narrated in diary form. When she visits Patria with a note from Maria Teresa, she has "a sweet, simple face and dark, thick hair held back with bobby pins. She sends them to Dr. Pedro Vinas. Bélgica Adela Mirabal Reyes, who goes by the nickname Dedé, is the only sister to never join the resistance movement and to survive past 1960. Jaimito's mother, who dotes on Dede, her daughter-in-law, so much "that Dede sometimes worried that Leila's five daughters would resent her.". He is a very fat man with "sharp, piglike eyes," and a toady of Trujillo. She points out this connection to Trujillo in order to try to remain on his good side. The Mirabals' maid, who continues to work for Dede in 1994. Maria Teresa describes her as wearing "trousers and a beret slanted on her head like she is Michelangelo." Copyright © 1999 - 2020 GradeSaver LLC. She escaped loss of life on that fateful time and later opened up a museum in her sisters’ honor. Honoring Dede Mirabal’s murdered sisters, the US General Assembly set up an International Time for the Reduction of Assault against Women, kept each year on November 25. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Looks like we don't have salary information. Mamá originally avoids trouble with, The “secretary of state” whose primary job is to find pretty girls for, “Would not have made it through AP Literature without the printable PDFs. She falls in love with the revolutionary, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes is the most outspoken and rebellious of the sisters and the first to join the movement against, The youngest sister of the family, Antonia María Teresa Mirabal Reyes, who goes by María Teresa or Mate, looks up to, Enrique Mirabal Fernandez is the father of the sisters, a wealthy farmer and merchant. He tries to seduce Minerva at the Discovery Day party. The woman with whom Enrique Mirabal has been having an affair and with whom he has other children, including Margarita. Sorry! Trujillo's right-hand man, called "Magic Eye" because he lost an eye in a knife fight, and his "remaining good eye magically sees what everyone else misses." Get an answer for 'Explain the relationship between Minerva and Dede Mirabal in In the Time of the Butterflies.' Virgilio Morales, "a tall thin man" with thick, wire-rimmed glasses. As described by Sinita to Minerva, "Trujillo became president in a sneaky way. Looks like we don't have quotes information. She often insists that wherever they go or wherever her husband goes, she is going, too. When they meet as children, she is "a skinny girl with a sour look on her face and pokey elbows to match." One of Minerva's and Maria Teresa's cellmates in jail. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Minerva and Manolo's daughter, who lives with Dede in 1994 and has a husband and baby of her own. Elsa's grandfather, who is in trouble with the police. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961.