Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butter Flies

Julia Alvarez -- in the time of Butterflies

The passage presents the perspective of a resolute, yet scared, person. The narrator appears to sympathize with the central characters and this makes it possible for readers to get a more complex understanding of what these characters go through.

The passage creates a feeling of helplessness in readers as it emphasizes a series of wrongdoings and as it provides readers with the feeling that they have to sit back and 'watch' as oppressors are successful in persecuting ordinary people.

I first noticed the Spanish words because it is obvious that the writer wanted these words to contribute to the feeling of authenticity the text is meant to put across. Both Spanish words and English ones come together in providing readers with a vivid image of events happening in this passage. Important words are...
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