Butterflies do not start out as the colorful flying creatures they start as weak and limited caterpillars growing themselves. Then they begin their process as a chrysalis confined in a cocoon and undergo a transformation known as metamorphosis. The Mirabal sisters are like this too. Under Trujillo oppressive regime, most people, including the Mirabal sisters, felt confined. “I mean in my head after I got to Inmaculada and met Sinita and saw what happened to Lina and realized that I’d just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of a whole country.”(Alvarez 13). Upon realizing the truth about this dictator, Minerva and her other sisters begin to fight the order of things and are transformed. Indeed, Minerva's alias becomes the "butterfly" and we see this enclosed woman break free from the shackles of "El …show more content…
All except one are silenced but like the butterfly, their beauty, courage and sacrifice lasts after their death and transforms a country. The resulting publicity of the assassination of the Mirabal sisters only served to highlight their cause further and create more public and international interest in the political state of the Dominican Republic. Trujillo himself would not know that within a six month period, he himself would face assassination in 1961. The tale of the Mirabal sisters is an ongoing legacy of bravery and compassion in order to save the lives of many people in the Dominican Republic. They defied the flow of conformity and stood out as National