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In the Time of the Butterflies is divided into three sections of four chapters each. Each part opens with Dede in third-person narration whereas the narration is given in the first person for the other sisters. Dede’s chapters are divided into two parts: 1994 (the present) and the past, when her sisters were alive, beginning with 1943. The time frame of the "present" is a span of one afternoon, in which Dede gives an interview. But the interviewer’s questions transport Dede, and the reader, back in time and into the consciousnesses of the sisters.

Part I

Dede begins an interview with a woman at around three o'clock. It is 1994. When Dede asks her what she wants to know, the interviewer answers, "Tell me all of it." Dede is transported back to…

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Posted By lauryn o #326623 at May 30, 2013 8:48 PM

What happens to the husbands of the butterflies?

The answer is somewhere in the epilogue and postscript between pages 301-324

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How does minerva feels when Elsa says "viva la mariposa"?

How does minerva feel that hoe

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Posted By jake j #325877 at May 27, 2013 8:46 PM

Why is it important to tell the OAS what really happens?

In chapter 11

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