Who is enrique mirabal

Struggling with distance learning? Our Teacher Edition on Time of the Butterflies can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Enrique Mirabal Fernandez is the father of the sisters, a wealthy farmer and merchant. He cheats on his wife and has three illegitimate daughters.

He dies in For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Chapter 1 Quotes. Related Themes: Dictatorship. Page Number and Citation : 10 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:.

The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 2: Minerva, , , The girls leaving home starts with Patria wanting to be a nun.

The girls' father is sort of a complicated guy. He is a doting dad and is crazy about all of his daughters, but he's not such a great husband. He's softhearted with the campesinos that come asking for medicine or tobacco, always giving away what he has:. He has a secret, second family, with four other daughters, that he keeps in a house far out on the property. When Minerva finds out and rams his car in anger, he takes her out into the back yard and slaps her.

At that moment, though, Minerva realizes, "He was the weakest one of all. It was he who would have the hardest time living with the shabby choices he'd made" 2. That weakness is what leads to Enrique's downfall. Elsa's grandfather, who is in trouble with the police. Minerva goes to her first revolutionary meetings at his home with Elsa, Lourdes, and Sinita. A revolutionary orphan with whom Minerva becomes friends while she is at Inmaculada Concepcion. Maria Teresa describes her as wearing "trousers and a beret slanted on her head like she is Michelangelo.

Virgilio Morales, "a tall thin man" with thick, wire-rimmed glasses. When Dede and Minerva meet him, he has just returned from Venezuela, where he earned his medical degree.

He asks Minerva to come away with him, and he sends her letters which Enrique Mirabal, her father, keeps from her. The woman with whom Enrique Mirabal has been having an affair and with whom he has other children, including Margarita.

The oldest of Carmen's children by Enrique Mirabal. When she visits Patria with a note from Maria Teresa, she has "a sweet, simple face and dark, thick hair held back with bobby pins.

The eyes, the brows, the whole look had Mirabal written all over it. Trujillo's secretary of state, whose real job is to round up young girls for Trujillo to take advantage of. He tries to seduce Minerva at the Discovery Day party. The governor, who suggests that Minerva allow Trujillo to sleep with her in order to save her father, after Enrique Mirabal is taken to jail.

He is "a tall, handsome man with a worried face. The mother of the Mirabal sisters, who defends her daughters with a passion. She often insists that wherever they go or wherever her husband goes, she is going, too. She dies twenty years after her three daughters. She is unable to read or write, though Maria Teresa teaches her a little. A "courtly, white-haired man" at the National Police Headquarters, who interrogates Minerva about Lio and her relationship with him. Trujillo's right-hand man, called "Magic Eye" because he lost an eye in a knife fight, and his "remaining good eye magically sees what everyone else misses.

Mama's uncle, who knew Trujillo during their early days in the military. She points out this connection to Trujillo in order to try to remain on his good side. The yardboy, who works for the Mirabal household. He betrays them by reporting everything he hears at Security "for a bottle of rum and a couple of pesos. Patria's priest, who is "straight out of seminary and brimming with new ideas. The speaker at the retreat where Patria goes with other Catholic women when, on the 14th of June, the church is attacked.

Don Bernardo's wife, whom he takes care of. Jaimito's mother, who dotes on Dede, her daughter-in-law, so much "that Dede sometimes worried that Leila's five daughters would resent her. He is a very fat man with "sharp, piglike eyes," and a toady of Trujillo. After Pedrito and Nelson are arrested, he takes over their land. Padre de Jesus' replacement at Patria's church, who speaks of revolution from the pulpit.

The guard at the prison where Minerva and Maria Teresa are held, who brings them things from the outside world and delivers their messages to Patria and Mama, through Margarita. One of Minerva's and Maria Teresa's cellmates at the jail, whom Maria Teresa calls "our little birdseed bell.

One of Minerva's and Maria Teresa's cellmates in jail. At the end of one of their group rosaries, she says, "May I never experience all that it is possible to get used to. She is deaf, and Maria Teresa teaches her how to write her name.