Minerva Mirabal
D’Anna Massey
American Literature
I.T.O.B.
February 12, 2014 In The Time of Minerva Mirabal In my tenth grade literature class this year I had the opportunity to read a book that I had never thought about reading. To my surprise, once I started reading I couldn’t stop. The book was titled, “In The Time of The Butterflies.” This book spoke of four sisters who were just trying to survive. One of the sisters, however, decided she wouldn’t just survive, she would fight. This young woman was known as Minerva Mirabal, the outspoken butterfly.
How would you treat your half sisters and your father’s mistress? With hatred and anger...possibly, or would you give them love like Minerva Mirabal did? It takes a strong person like Minerva to do something as astonishing as this. A strong person that is destined to change the world one life at a time, and she did just that. Minerva Mirabal is the name of a woman that will always live on. She went through many different hardships and roadblocks, but she never stopped persevering. She was one of the people, who even during Trujillo’s reign of terror never gave up hope. Throughout Minerva’s time of rebelling people often forgot to look at Minerva’s life as a whole.
MInerva Mirabal was the daughter of a man named Enrique Mirabal. She had three sisters, or so she thought. Half way through Minerva’s short life she found out about her father’s mistress and Minerva’s other four sisters. At first sight Minerva was outraged. She did not think that anything like this was possible. She even went as far as crashing her car into her father’s while he was at his mistress’ house. What she did next was even more astonishing. Minerva forgave her father.
Forgiving her father was just a little of what we know about Minerva Mirabal. However, this is enough to let us know what type of person she was. Minerva was the type of person that cared more for others than herself. Even when she was in jail she made sure that all the woman had
American Literature
I.T.O.B.
February 12, 2014 In The Time of Minerva Mirabal In my tenth grade literature class this year I had the opportunity to read a book that I had never thought about reading. To my surprise, once I started reading I couldn’t stop. The book was titled, “In The Time of The Butterflies.” This book spoke of four sisters who were just trying to survive. One of the sisters, however, decided she wouldn’t just survive, she would fight. This young woman was known as Minerva Mirabal, the outspoken butterfly.
How would you treat your half sisters and your father’s mistress? With hatred and anger...possibly, or would you give them love like Minerva Mirabal did? It takes a strong person like Minerva to do something as astonishing as this. A strong person that is destined to change the world one life at a time, and she did just that. Minerva Mirabal is the name of a woman that will always live on. She went through many different hardships and roadblocks, but she never stopped persevering. She was one of the people, who even during Trujillo’s reign of terror never gave up hope. Throughout Minerva’s time of rebelling people often forgot to look at Minerva’s life as a whole.
MInerva Mirabal was the daughter of a man named Enrique Mirabal. She had three sisters, or so she thought. Half way through Minerva’s short life she found out about her father’s mistress and Minerva’s other four sisters. At first sight Minerva was outraged. She did not think that anything like this was possible. She even went as far as crashing her car into her father’s while he was at his mistress’ house. What she did next was even more astonishing. Minerva forgave her father.
Forgiving her father was just a little of what we know about Minerva Mirabal. However, this is enough to let us know what type of person she was. Minerva was the type of person that cared more for others than herself. Even when she was in jail she made sure that all the woman had