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1. What new thing(s) did you learn about the character/narrator?

Dede is the only Mirabel sister that does not join the resistance against the dictator Trujillo. She is more grounded and dependent on her security and safety than her other sisters. She has older values, such as marrying and having children, and being a housewife. Along with that, she disapproved of her sisters joining the resistance in the beginning of the chapter while she was young.

2. How does the character grow and change throughout the course of this chapter?

Throughout the chapter, Dede grows through understanding her own past. She recounts what her childhood was like, and how growing up  with her sisters affected her.

3.How do they interact with other characters and what are

their views on the relationships with each of the other characters like?

When Dede is interacting with the writer, she keeps herself closed off. This gives readers insight to how she acts as a person to others around her. Her trust issues are seen when we are looking through a first person perspective, and she views the writer as someone who she can almost manipulate, knowing that her own bias would not be contested.

4. Name one thing you thought was interesting that the character didn’t share with someone else in this chapter (this could be a thought or feeling expresses internally by the character). Comment on why you may or may not agree with their actions.

Dede is almost relived when the author interviewing her admits that she has not read the other biographies about her sisters. She is happy that she can tell the story of her sisters from her own perspective, instead of theirs. This shows blatant bias, which I do not agree should be used.

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Minerva is young and unconcerned during the beginning of this chapter. Her and Patria were surprised to find out about their father allowing them to go to school. Minerva had strong feeling about nature, and other aspects of her beautiful country, but has to ask her father for permission, so her reasoning for him allowing her to go to school, was that an angel must have come down and fought for her case. She refered to bunnies as a metaphor for how she feels under her constant...

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1. What new thing(s) did you learn about the character/narrator?

Mate (Maria Teresa) is in schol with her sister Minerva. She does not enjoy school, but stayes due to her sister being there. She is niave according to Minerva, because at the beginning of the chapter she is very supportive of Dictator Trujillo. She does not know anything bad he has done, and respects him as a leader.

2. How does the character grow and change throughout the course of this chapter?

An important change that happens throughout this chapter is the realization of who Dictator Trujillo really is. At the beginning of the chapter Mate is supportive of their leader, but after catching Minerva sneaking out to secret resistance meetings, she learns of the horrors that Trujillo had committed.  Violence begins with people involved in the resistance, and the chapter ends abruptly with the diary in which her story is being written in is buried, due to the threat of police finding it and arresting (or killing) her for treason.

3. How do they interact with other characters and what are

their views on the relationships with each of the other characters like?

Mate is friendly to others, and a relatively positive thinker. She trusts others easily and blindly, such as trusting in her leaders. She is extremely close to her sister Minerva, and looks up to her as a role model, and follows in her footsteps willingly.

4. Name one thing you thought was interesting that the character didn’t share with someone else in this chapter (this could be a thought or feeling expressed internally by the character). Comment on why you may or may not agree with their actions.

Mate has lots of internal conflict with her trust being broken. She struggles to fully accept that Dictator Trujillo is really a bad man, after loving him for years.

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1. What new thing(s) did you learn about the character/narrator?

Patria spends her early years as a deeply religious person. Everyone around her describes her as being "angelic", and by 14 she joins a covenant. She values her connection to god above almost all else. When washing the feet of a man at her church, they make eye contact, and immediately fins love at first glance. She ends up leaving the covenant to marry her husband Pedrito. After having two children, she struggles during her third pregnancy due to the stress of Minerva's actions. She later loses faith in her religion after a misscarage.

2. How does the character grow and change throughout the course of this chapter?

Patrias grown may not be positive for herself during this chapter. She loses faith in her religion in which she was extremely devout, and deals with the intense grief of losing a child.

3. How do they interact with other characters and what are

their views on the relationships with each of the other characters like?

Patrias interactions with her sister are not easy or healthy for hr. MInerva is at a high point in her carrer being in the resistance, which causes extrem stress for Patria. She worries about the saftey of her sisters, and how their actions can affect her as well.

4. Name one thing you thought was interesting that the character didn’t share with someone else in this chapter (this could be a thought or feeling expressed internally by the character). Comment on why you may or may not agree with their actions.

Patria equates her loss in faith in god, to her faith in Trujillo. This is important due to the extent of the importance of her faith for her. She holds up a picture of Trujillo and Jesus next to each other, and understands how they are similar. Both have held power over her, and have caused her pain. She uses the metaphor of father watching over their children, but not helping as they get harmed beyond fixing.

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1.What new thing(s) did you learn about the character/narrator?

Dede is not interested in helping her sister any longer. She orders the shrine dedicated to them to be taken down, and furthers the metaphor throughout the book of the flowers representing her sisters.

2. How does the character grow and change throughout the course of this chapter?

Dede changes her allegiance to her family during this chapter.

3. How do they interact with other characters and what are

their views on the relationships with each of the other characters like?

Dede understanding or her relationship with her sisters grows throughout this chapter. She complkeatly dissconnects with them as a whole, due to her not approving of their jobs in the revolution.

4.Name one thing you thought was interesting that the character didn’t share with someone else in this chapter (this could be a thought or feeling expressed internally

by the character). Comment on why you may or may not agree with their actions.

By not joining the revolution after countless opportunities, Dede finally understands why. Others think of her as the sister who lacks the courage to help change her country, and she starts to think that as well. She locks other out of her life to protect herself from these emotions, and tries to create a fake life for herself to completely disconnect her from her family.

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Minerva referred to bunnies as a metaphor for how she feels under her constant pressure and seclusion in her small home town. She has many revolutionary ideas, and is extremely smart, but is cooped up in her house, showing how her character may be impulsive, and take any way out of her seclusion she can get, even if the end result is negative.

“Sinita’s story spilled out like blood from a cut.”

(page 18)

The striking beginning of Minerva's story starts with this 9 word quote. Trujillo had finally been exposed to her as what he really was; a murderer.  Minerva's decision to fight the power and gain political relevance gives us an insight into how the story may play out, and what type of character she is. The simile also introduces us to how cruel the story will be, and gives readers a chance to brace ourselves against it, while solidifying Trujillo as the antagonist in her life and story.