You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
-Dr. Seuss

Monday, March 10, 2014

LONG LIVE THE BUTTERFLIES!

I have frantically been trying to read as much as possible through every passing period. This novel has got me hooked!

"IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES" BY JULIA ALVAREZ

It is a novel based on a true story. It speaks of the women heroines (Their underground name being the butterflies) behind the revolution against Dictator  Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Throughout the novel the reader is taken through the lives of these women, the men behind them, their children, and the threatening and torture that goes along with the Revolution. The novel takes place between 1938-1960. It is such an amazing, inspiring, and raw story!


The last sister to survive speaks of the revolution and her sisters. She has now passed away (2014)

The Movie Trailer




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