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Chapters 1-4: Answer these questions with as much detail as you can. The more you know about the following questions the better your understanding of the book and the main characters. Also if you have a question about one of the questions please start a DISCUSSION and one of your classmates or I will try to answer you question.
1. How does EACH sister lose her innocence or faith in the novel's opening chapters?
the only one who is still alive/had to take all of her sister's children when they died.
Minerva- performed for Trujillo, her friends (Sinita and Hilda), going to school
Patria- got married and her third baby passed away, unburied her baby and saw the corpse.

Here are the characters and questions you need to know for Hiroshima. If you have a question about a character or one of the questions start a discussion!
Characters to know:
1. Mrs. Hatsyuyo Nakamura
2. Terafumi Sadaki
3. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
4. Miss Toshiko Sasaki
5. Masakazu Fuji
6. Wilhelm Kleinsorg
Use your study guide and your own notes that you took!!
What were they doing at the time of the bombing?
Injuries?
Hardships?
What happened to them at the end of the book?THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE FINAL EXAM!!!
Did they know each other? If yes, how?
Historical facts in the book…radiation sickness, reasons for the bombings, kind of bomb etc… Type in the content of your page here.

Here are all the characters to the Martian Chronicles...add to these. If you do not know a character start a discussion!
1. Mrs. K or Ylla
2. Mr. K or Yll
3. Nathaniel York
4. Captain Williams
5. Captain John Black
6. Samuel Hinkston
7. Lustig
8. Captain Wilder
9. Jeff Spender
10. Sam Parkhill
11. Hathaway
12. Biggs
13. Cheroke
14. Benjamin Driscoll
15. Tomas Gomez
16. Muhe Ca
17. Mr. Teece
18. Belter
19. Silly
20. William Stendahl
21. Garrett
22. Pikes
23. Tom
24. LaFarge and Anna
25. Elma
26. Walter Gripp
27. Genevieve Selsor
28. Williamson
29. Timothy

EC question
Who are the two brothers who fight over Maria Teresa?

2. "Something has started non of us can stop," says Minerva. What does she mean by this remark?now that they're involved with the movement to overthrow Trujillio they can't stop.
3. How does Minerva's pride both help and hurt her in the interactions with Trujillo?
Think dance
think college
4. How does Maria Teresa get involved in the movement to overthrow Trujillo?
we went over this today!!
5. What impacts Patria's decision to join the movement.
we went over this as well...

extra credit
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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
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:
Minou: Minerva's daughter.Marries jaimito.
Likes Lio but knows that he also likes Minerva
jealous of Minerva but also wants to protect her
Starts a icecream business.
Starts a resturant that fails.
only sister who's uninvolved in revolution.
Minou
Minerva's daughter
raised by Dede
Trijillo
Virgilio Marales (Lio)
Manuel de Moya- good looking assistant to Trujillo. Was the "nice guy" when MinervaCommunist
Fine young man with lofty ideals
University professor
Mama liked Lio...but she was being questionedalso iliterate and couldn't read about revolutionary movements.
Margarita-him in the oldest daughter of Papa's affair. She can'tpapers
Maria Teresa forgot and read or write.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 wants
fled the country to sendescape 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
Margarita
-Calls herself a Mirabal
-oldest of the sisters of the father's 2nd family
-Minerva wants her and her sisters to school to get a goodan education.
Manolo:
Leandro Guzman (Palomino): He was part
-Gave Patria a note from Maria Teresa and family in prison.
-pg. 208-209
Don Chiche
-The uncle of the communist party. He had a "thing" with minerva...but is wasnt FBO.
Mama: WentMirabal sister's.
-Brother of mrs. mirabal
-and used to courtgamble with minervaTrujillo
-gave Trujillo the "loaded" dice
-mama drops his name when she is trying to get papa back.
Papa: Hedied,her husband out of jail
Manolo
-Minerva's Husband
-is considered an enemy of the state
Leandro Guzman (Palomino)
Maria Theresa's Husband
she meets him while he hadis "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 attackcomplications due to his time in jail.jail

1. Dede tells her companions she watches sports but doesn't play them. In retrospect, what does this reveal about her character.
Dede likes to know what is happening but doesn't want to be a part of it. Watches what is going on with her sisters but doesn't get involved.
by this remark?remark?now that they're involved with the movement to overthrow Trujillio they can't stop.
3. How does Minerva's pride both help and hurt her in the interactions with Trujillo?
4. How does Maria Teresa get involved in the movement to overthrow Trujillo?