Themes, ITTOB
This word describes a message about life and human behavior that an author expresses in a text.
What is a theme?
This word, synonym for story line, describes the events in a story.
What is a plot?
This character is Minerva's eldest child, and Dedé's niece
Who is Minou?
"Sometimes, watching the rabbits in their pens, I'd think, I'm no different from you, poor things. One time, I opened a cage to set a half-grown doe free. I even gave her a slap to get going. But she wouldn't budge! She was used to her little pen. […]
Silly bunny, I thought. "
Minerva Mirabal
This word is usually used to describes one's POV, when they do not express a preference got any available options.
What is neutral?
Fill in the blank: The Mirabal sisters are motivated more by love and _____ than by political ideals.
What is Family?
This element of the story refers to where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
This character is the second-oldest Mirabal sister, and the sister who lived on to tell the tale of the Mirabal legacy.
Who is Bélgica "Dedé" Mirabal?
"I started crying, but I pinched my arms to stop. I had to be brave for Sinita."
Who is Minerva?
This plot element refers to the highest point of conflict in the story, which usually leaves the reader in suspense
What is climax?
Fill in the blank: Based on the story, the Mirabal sisters were known for being _______ due to their bravery to speak out against the Trujillio regime.
What is Courageous / (Courage)?
One _______ in the story In The Time of Butterflies was the Mirabal Sisters trying to dismantle Trujillio's regime
Conflict
This character is introduced with the desire of them wanting to go to law school, and tells her sister that she wants her to grow up in a 'free country'
Who is Minerva?
She seemed pretty impressed with my arguing back at her like that. She's always telling me to stand up for myself, but I guess she didn't figure I'd stand up to her."
Who is Maria Teresa?
The ____ of rules and etiquette between husband & wife during the 19th century helps us understand why it was taboo for the Mirabal sisters to get
What is Context?
Fill in the blank: Trujillio's _______ made his regime known as one of the bloodiest ever in the Dominican Republic.
Who is Trujillio?
This element of a plot refers the particular feeling or atmosphere something has or creates. For example, The darkness and mist gave the painting of the forest an eerie (strange and frightening) _______.
What is mood?
This character worked for the Mirabal family for a long time, but was described as a disgrace to their family's Catholic religion after communicating to the spirits of the Sisters for Minou.
Who is Fela?
"...But I couldn't reason with reason herself. I tried a different tack. "It's a dirty business, you're right. That's why we women shouldn't get involved."
Who is Patria Mirabal
This plot element refers to the events leading up to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
The ______ of the Mirabal sisters marked the downfall of the Trujillio regime.
What is death?
This is the writer, or speaker's attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
This character introduces the evils of Trujillio to the plot, as her family was torn apart by him.
Who is Sinata?
I'm my own person. I'm tired of being the daughter of a legend.
Who is Minou, daughter of Minerva?
This word, describes when a character, author, or reader bases their decisions on facts, and keeps their personal judgements or feelings at bay.
What is objective?