Part+II+characters


 * Part II Character list**


 * Minerva**
 * Left the capital to go back to school.
 * She meets Lio
 * Shes wondering why her dad cheated on her mom and is trying to make sense of it all.
 * She is more accepting of her new family
 * has graduated from university but is at home wondering what to do with her life
 * receives letters from her friends and is jealous of what they are doing
 * resents her father for "keeping her cooped up"
 * spots her father's jeep at the yellow house
 * falling in love with Lio
 * finds the letters her father has kept from here
 * goes to the Discovery Day Dance
 * slaps Trujillo
 * dances with him
 * leaves her purse with the letters
 * tells Trujillo that she wants to become a lawyer
 * has to send Trujillo a letter of apology
 * challenges Trujillo to a game of dice where they both roll doubles...wants to get her father released
 * Graduates from college but does not get her license to practice law


 * Maria Teresa**
 * She hates men now
 * She is mad that her dad's mistress and her children came to the funeral
 * She is not very accepting of her new family.
 * this is where we learn that the father has died
 * is suspicious of Manolo
 * goes to college
 * 18 at this point
 * has strange dreams

Starts a icecream business. Starts a resturant that fails. only sister who's uninvolved in revolution.
 * Patria:**
 * She's pregnant again.
 * Join's a christian cultural group.
 * Opens her house for the revolutionary meetings.
 * After the retreat she becoms a radical about the revolution.
 * is frightened for Mate and Minerva
 * sends her son to a religious school in hopes that will keep him from politics
 * gets involved with the movement in small ways
 * goes to the religious retreat and is caught in a crossfire and she sees a young boy get killed
 * Peditro finally agrees to join the movement and their home becomes the front for the 14th of June movement...which is trying to overthrow the government
 * Dede:**
 * Marries jaimito.
 * Likes Lio but knows that he also likes Minerva
 * jealous of Minerva but also wants to protect her
 * Minou**
 * Minerva's daughter
 * raised by Dede
 * Trijillo**
 * Virgilio Marales (Lio)**
 * Communist
 * Fine young man with lofty ideals
 * University professor
 * Mama liked Lio...but she was also iliterate and couldn't read about him in the papers
 * Maria Teresa forgot and read the article to Mama
 * Minerva is in love with him
 * Had "a party for homosexuals and criminals"
 * Exiled in Venezuela
 * Dede was in love with him as well
 * Dede burns the letter Lio gave her to give to Minerva
 * fled the country to escape the Trujillo regime
 * sends Minerva letters, but her father hides them from her


 * Manuel de Moya**
 * "Secretary of State" For Trijillo
 * Real Job is to get young girls for Trijillo
 * Gross Mind
 * Smooth with the ladies

-Calls herself a Mirabal -oldest of the sisters of the father's 2nd family -Minerva wants her and her sisters to get an education. -Gave Patria a note from Maria Teresa and family in prison. -pg. 208-209
 * Margarita**

-The uncle of the Mirabal sister's. -Brother of mrs. mirabal -and used to gamble with Trujillo -gave Trujillo the "loaded" dice -mama drops his name when she is trying to get her husband out of jail
 * Don Chiche**

-Minerva's Husband -is considered an enemy of the state Leandro Guzman (Palomino)
 * Manolo**
 * Maria Theresa's Husband
 * she meets him while he is "gun running"


 * Mama**
 * Lived through a Revolution 40 years ago.
 * Has 4 daughters.
 * is learning to read
 * knows about her husband's cheating


 * Papa**
 * Has another familoy with 4 other daughters.
 * Wealthy farmer.
 * Friends with a high up general in Trujilo's Regime.
 * dies from heart complications due to his time in jail