Weekly Assignment1. It was difficult to find out who the narrator of In The Time Of The Butterflies was, as the book kept changing the point of view of each of the Mirabal sisters. Even though the Mirabal sisters spoke firsthand about what happened, it felt like we were being told how they felt, but not directly by the sister. Finally, I thought back to the beginning of the story and realized that the narrator of the book was the reporter who went to Dede's house, which happens every year on November 25th. Through Dede, the journalist was an outsider who could tell readers what had happened, his sister's feelings and thoughts, and continue to talk about the story without speaking in the first person. When Dedé invited the journalist to his home, the journalist walked through the corridors of the house and observed the portraits on the walls. If it had been from an outsider's perspective, Dedé would not have noticed certain features of her home. I believe the journalist is the narrator of In the Time of Butterflies. It was especially difficult to find out who the narrator was because, although I suspected she was the journalist, I couldn't connect her to the author. There was no indication of a relationship between the author and anyone in the story, but when I read further into the postscript I found a possible relationship. The Postscript says that Julia Alvarez "heard" the story of the Mirabal Sisters when she was a little girl, so I knew she was not personally involved in the actions of the revolution because the timing would not have been right. Alvarez says she moved to New York, but has made many trips to the Dominican Republic. Additionally, he "searched for any information" about the sisters. This led me to believe that he did some investigating (as journalists do), and where better to go than Dede, the surviving sister? This showed me the relationship between narrator and author. I believe that the journalist (narrator) and the author are actually the same woman.2. The political subject of In The Time Of The Butterflies is the overwhelming and total control of dictatorship. Trujillo was the supreme leader of the Dominican Republic. The book revealed that he rose to the top when everyone above him would disappear. Then he declared himself president, and anyone who supported it was killed.