Last blog for In The Time Of The Butterflies

Well, this is the final blog. I am here to discuss my thoughts on the book. With all honesty, i did not approve of this book in the beginning, but as time went on, i grew to like it. Well i liked it towards the very end because that is when i found the book to be more interesting. I loved how the characters slowly changed over time and how you can see this improvement. This book overall displayed a large amount of courage scattered throughout the whole book. This book also shared a little too much information at times A.K.A. (Alvarez 47) But as final view on this book i can say it is very great. I would strongly recommend this book to someone i know. I have read  a few books in my life time but i know this book will stay in my mind for a while. If i were to rate this book out of 10, I would rate it a 8.3 out of 10. This is my personal view on the book, if you want to know how this book really is, you should read it yourself. Well thank you for enjoying m,y blogs and reading each one, unfortunately, as I said, this is my last blog on this topic, so farewell good book and readers.

Courage

Hello for the almost to last time my lovely audience. Today i shall discuss courage. I will discuss how courage changes one of the characters, how it is shown in the book, and what it means. Maria Teresa or "mate" is in prison and is now writing a journal secretly away from the guards, out of sight. here on her second journal it reads "The fear is the worst part. Every time i hear footsteps coming down the hall, or the clink of the key turning in the lock, i'm tempted to curl up in the corner like a hurt animal, whimpering wanting to be safe. But i know if i do that, i'll be giving in to a low part of myself, and I'll feel even less human. And that is what they want to do, yes that is what they want to do" (Alvarez 227) this is Mates fear and ever other persons fear in prison. She doesn't want to lose what makes her human. She decides to act tougher so that she wont seem so vulnerable and weak in prison. She is trying to overcome this fear so that it does not effect her mentally or damage her in anyway shape or way possible. Mate is deeply effected bu the time she is spending in prison, she wants to go home and be safe. but this is what she gets for breaking the law and being a criminal. as you can clearly see though, Mate has changed so much, she has been brave for the longest time to stand against me, but now she feels like trembling in fear of the guards. she is no as brave as you to be sadly, hopefully this young girl could regain her courage to the fullest extent and continue her life normally. Thank you my lovely readers and i hope you all have a nice day.

Anaphora and parallelism

Hello once agian my lovely audience. today i propose a new topic to discuss. This time i shall discuss about anaphora or Parallelism. Anaphora is the repetion of the first word or phrase in succesive clauses. Parallelism is when a sentence is properly structured and has a smooth sentence flow. Here in chapter 10 of the book, i found both, Anaphora and Parallelism, Patria is having flashbacks and is recalling what has happened when the SIM came to her house and took her husband kids, she sais "Over and over again, i saw the SIM approaching, i saw Nelson and Pedrito hurrying out the back way, Noris's stricken face. I saw the throng of men at the door, I heard the stomping of, the running, the yelling. I saw the house burning." (Alvarez, 201) As you can see, Patria smoothly flowed her sentences together, she connected them and put them all in the same tense, which is past tense. Unfortunately, she did break the parallelism when she said "Norris's stricken face." she did to showto show how scared and unaware and how traumatized she was at this incident. But as you just saw at the quote, it clearly has both Anaphora and Ilussion. So this concludes our time together and thus i showed  and explained to you Anaphora and Ilussion. Thank you and farerwell.

Charecter transformation and change

people of the world, it is I, the magnificent Trujillo in the flesh, i am here again to tell you what i have read. Todays topic shal be on character transformation and change. For this topic i am going to be focusing on the sister Patria. unfortunately, she has suffered a tragic event that i did not mean to cause. The story was that there have been betrayers hiding in the mountains, the same place that Patria was on her church retreat. I have declared that the armie bomb the area and shoot anyone they see. But unfortunately for Patria, she has suffered that event with the members of her church as well. The people of the church and herself were all enjoying a peacful time inside the building when all of suddden, explosions happened and they all ran and prayed for cover. As they were hiding in the corner she was approached by a filthy unloyal citizen that tried to assist her. He reached out his hand to try and pick her up. She told him to get down my son, but unforunately she saw him get shot in the back and slowly watched the life drain from that filthy rat. After the whole place was evacuated, she had been carrying the boy in her arms all the way down the mountain. She then said that she has been a changed women. all because she experienced such an event in her life and watched as her son in christ died before her. She is now angered at the regime for causing such an event and killing so much people. Now, she plans to go against me and plan to over throw me with the help of her church, family and friends. She is angered now to the fullest extent, how sad, a once peacful, happy, great child, now a hate filled and angered soul. Its sad to see such destruction on one person. Hopefully no one else should have to experience what this poor child went through.

Figurative Language

Hello once again  Audience, today i shall tell you about some figurative language in this wonderful book. The figurative language i found happened to be a simile. A simile for those of you who may not know or who have forgotten, is when someone compares two things using like or as. Here I shall tell you the quote and explain what it means, now, lets begin. Here, Minerva said "Mama watches Don Antonio like an animal waiting to attack if her young one is threatened."(Alvarez104) Here mama is watching Dan Antonio with snake eyes, she is keeping a sharp eye on him just in case he tries anything funny. She is clearly being protective and is just trying to be a mother. But she should not be so angered, she should have trust in my people, obviously, i wouldn't hire someone you cant trust. but who can blame her, she is trying to protect her "Precious" angel, the same angel who would dared to have slapped me This figurative language shows how protective Minerva's mother is about her.This also brings out the theme in a way, this shows how protective a family should be about one another, and how they should never keep their eyes off one another.This is shown throughout the whole book, The sisters always looked after each other while they were at the Catholic school. They protected and watched over one another at my banquet. This book portrays many situations of a family watching and caring for another. So overall, this has to be a great form of figurative language that i have found in the book. Once again my lovely audience, I thank you so for reading this far till the end. Farewell, until next time.

Conflict

Hello once again fellow readers. It is me Trujillo and I am here to discuss a topic which internal and external conflicts within the book. First lets take a look at our Internal conflict. After Sinita told Minerva a terrible story about how I, The Magnificent Trujillo, Became president, what lies she told, but in the end Minerva  was trying hard not to cry about what she heard, this caused a twisting feeling in her stomach. She stated "I started crying, but I pinched my arm to stop. I had to be brave for Sinita." (Alvarez19) This poor young girl had trouble believing such a story that she began to cry. Now allow me to show you an external conflict within the book, as the four sisters' father is held under house arrest, he appears to come back rather trashy, you don't know how, and I certainty don't either. when he is released to his family again, this is said "He is such a pitiful sight. His face is gaunt, his voice is shaky; his once fancy guayabera is soiled and hangs on him, several sizes too large. He and Mama and I embrace. I can feel his bony shoulders." (Alvarez112) As you can clearly see, this man somehow managed to hurt himself in our cell, how disgusting. Don't worry, this man is safe now and in better hands, we assure you that  nothing bad happened to him. Well my audience, it has been my honor to have shared my 5thoughts with you this evening, someday we shall meet again and hopefully have something more delightful to talk about.

My blog

Hello fellow people of the world. I Trujillo have decided to read this pitiful disgusting book. I have heard that it is about three sisters who plan to overthrow me. If I ever find these sisiters I swear I will ki... talk to them about why they should not. I am a great leader of the Dominican Republic, everyone loves me, obeys me, worships me, almost as if im a god or something. Anyways, i plan on reading this horrid book and discuss about these pesty sisters who have no respect for their elders. Maybe... I might have to teach these sisters a lesson for trying to commit something so suicidal. I plan on informing you readers on what is happening as i read this book, hopefully, there is a happy ending... for me at least.