(Outside Reading #4) In the TIme of the Butterflies Ch 5 and 6

I just read the 5th and 6th chapter in my book that I chose to read for our project, In the Time of the Butterflies. I learned that Dede had feelings for Minerva's husband, Lio, from the moment she saw him. She truly loved him more than her own husband, Jaimito. When Jaimito proposed to Dede in the car, they also found Lio hiding in the back seat. Lio asked Dede to give a letter to Minerva but instead she decided to read it before hand. The letter was asking Minerva to leave the country with him, so Dede burnt the letter in order to protect her sister. In some ways I would be happy if my sister did that, because it could potentially have saved my life. But then again, it would make me angry that she burnt it with out me even knowing about it or where Lio even went. 

In the 6th chapter Minerva meets her dad's other side of the family that he has been involved with. She also finds 4 letters from Lio in her dad's closet and gets very angry. She ran into her fathers ford while he was at his other family's house because of her anger. Their entire family went to a party that their dad was invited to and Trujillo was there, hitting on Minerva. When he wouldn't stop, she slapped him across the face and their family left immediately. I would do the exact same as Minerva because Trujillo had no right to treat her like that. It was very rude to treat her the way he did.