(Outside Reading #5) In the Time of the Butterflies Ch. 12

In the last chapter of In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva is the narrator. She and her sister Patria are released from prison to come home finally. She begins having a hard time at home though, she feels as though she is not the same as she was before she went to jail. She misses her old life. The men were still in prisons but Minerva never gave up on them. Dede always told the girls not to go and visit their husbands because the road to the prison was very dangerous. One da a storm was brewing and the girls were off, and that was the end. The girls ended up dying on their trip to the prison that day. I think it was a very good ending to the book because it kind of leaves you hanging but I still think there should have been a little more description about their deaths. I think the book was very pleasant over all made me see life in a whole new perspective.