The Mirabal sisters are honored and recognized as heroines in the Dominican Republic. They were all bright women who fairly took their piece of education at a time when it wasn’t affordable for women.Except of Dede she stayed at home, taking care of the household.All three sisters were natives of a Dominican Republic. Patria, the oldest, wanted to go to school to be a nun but as she got older she didn’t want to be a nun anymore because she wanted to get married.Dede, the second born, wasn’t going against Trujillo because her husband told her not to. Minerva, third born child, She wanted to go to law school. Last Mirabal sister is Maria Teresa, she always wanted to be with Minerva so she went to the college as well as the rest of the sisters. The purpose of the group was to get over on Trujillo without getting killed. We also have the Dictator, the man The sisters was going against, Trujillo who killed everyone who tried to come in between his ways, he was a real monster. The Butterflies were from a well known- provincial family. They was beaten, put back in the car, and thrown off a nearby cliff. It is important to recognize what the sisters did for their country and how their past actions still …show more content…
Mate was a loving, caring, innocent person. She loved fashion and hairstyles. After she went out to the real world she didn’t like it as much. Mate was put in jail along with Minerva and more people, while Mate was in jail she learned a lot. One of the things she learned was everyone isn’t wealthy and it’s not really bout the wealth it’s about how they are on the inside and if they’re a good person. She always admired minerva and started to share a political comportment passionately. Before the fame Mate Minerva and patria formed an anti- Trujillo organization called the movement of the Fourteenth of June. They adopted the underground code name of The Butterflies also known as Las