A true hero
Heroes can be anyone who set there mind to it. One woman can be a heroine to all the women and the people who have been misjudged and looked down upon.Minerva died a heroine and remains one today. She fought for what was right even if it meant death.Minerva is a heroine due to the fact that she fought for what was right and that never stopped her. She found out early that Trujillo was a bad guy,she fought for law school, and also had personal issues. Nothing ever stopped her, she fought till the end.
Minerva found out at a young age that Trujillo was not the guy to play around with. Sinita exclaimed," people who open their big mouths didn't live very long"(pg.16).Minerva had to learn that if she opened her mouth at all about Trujillo then it could mean her life. Sinita said,'"Trujillo is having everyone killed."( pg.17).Minerva fights against someone who has the power to kill her with one order. She goes against the highest power for justice and it could mean the death of her and her family. Sinita hissed, " Trujillo is the devil", Sinita added as we tiptoed back to our beds.
(pg. 19).Trujillo was hated by many people, but they never got in his head. Except for Minerva, who was able to play with his feelings. Minerva had the fear that something she says could get her killed, but she kept going. Minerva had to also go against Trujillo to go to school.
Law school at that time was only viewed for men. Minerva fought hard to go to school, even if in the end she was two timed. Trujillo questioned, "A woman like you, a lawyer?" (pg.
65).People didn't see women as lawyers or anything higher up. Minerva wanted to prove them wrong, even when she is told by the highest person there that a women of her class should not be in law....
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...ardest thing to do, sometimes a real hero can face all of this and still keep following her dream.
Minerva is a heroine due to the fact she fought for what was right and that never stopped her. She found out early that Trujillo was a bad guy, that needed to be handled with, she fought to go to law school. Which wouldn't let women go to, and also had personal struggles with her family in the emits of all of this .Minerva is a true hero she had to face with a person that could and did have her killed for doing what was right. She went to law school that no women has every done, and she had personal challenges to face. She left behind children, just to make them free when they grow older.Heroines can come from everywhere, they face people that no other would dare to bother. She did and died for what was right. How many people can say they have or known somebody who has?
Minerva is able to show her courage at a dinner party thrown by Trujillo, the dictator at the time. At the party she went to reluctantly, Trujillo asks Minerva to dance. Knowing of Trujillo’s offensive past with females, she is hesitant to accept, but says
There was an encounter with the sister in law of a Lima merchant, a misunderstanding with Catalina’s brother over his mistress and other occasions being betrothed to women in the New World. At one point in her travels she comes very close to dying on the way to Tucman from Concepcion. Two men on horseback save her and they take her back to their mistress’ ranch. As gratitude for saving her life she helps tend to the ranch for about two weeks. The mistress is so overwhelming thankful to Catalina that she offers her daughter for her to marry. “And a couple of days later, she let me know it would be fine by her if I married her daughter—a girl as black and ugly as the devil himself, quite the opposite of my taste, which has always run to pretty faces.” (28) These instances happened a lot, where because of her hard work throughout her life she was offered many women to marry. Those engagements, however, ended after she exploited the situation and rode off with gifts and dowry
There are many documented occasions of her spying and delivering secrets. It is said that one day wh...
Out of all the Mirabal sisters, being courageous was Minerva’s specialty to show how she feels without being verbal with her emotions, and to get her point across. Right from the beginning of the book Minerva chose to create actions that were not only courageous, but reckless. After Minerva found out about her other sisters she crashed her father’s Jeep into his Ford at his other lover’s house. As always, she wanted to make a scene, “My voice was as commanding as his. ‘You’ve lost my respect,’” (Alvarez 89). Her father was extremely disappointed with her, but she wanted him to know that what he was doing was extremely wrong. Crashing her father’s cars was definitely brave, and especially since she did it in front of her other family without any second thoughts. Towards the middle of the book, Minerva informed Mate about some things she did not know, “Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming,” and this is when Minerva explained more about how they created a national underground to try to get everybody freedom no matter what happened (Alvarez 142). This national underground was a h...
Like most things in the world, they have their place. A man's place is to get their education and to get a substantial job that would bring in the money for his family. Women were not expected to attend school or to get a job that exceeded from a housewife or a housekeeper. When Minerva tells her family that she aspires to become a lawyer, her Mother does not take her seriously. "'Ay, Dios mio, spare me. ... Just what we need, skirts in the law'" (10)! It is because women like Minerva do not typically think of doing a job that involve family or cleaning, the dream is laughable. The implication is that women studying law is considered "out-of-place." Therefore, stating that women are not expected to desire or be capable of doing something that a man can.
Maria is turning her friends into bullies. Thirdly, Maria spitefully mentions
Derby Lauren, The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo Regime, Callaloo 23.3. Summer 2000, pp. 1112-1146.
This is evident in two key moments in the story, both of which involve Minerva’s sisters. In the first, the manifestation of her inspiring Maria Teresa comes when Maria Teresa stands up to her. Behind the virgin mary, maria teresa is infuriated that Minerva won't tell her what they’re talking about so she confronts her about their conversation. This is very similar to the attitude that Minerva would have had in this situation, further illustrating Minerva’s inspiration of Maria Teresa. A second demonstration of Minerva’s inspiring courage in others, once again, comes through Maria Teresa joining of the revolution. While some will say that Maria Teresa’s real reason for joining the revolution came in the form of the man delivering guns, it’s clearly evident that without her sister's involvement in the rebellion, she would not have joined. This shows Minerva true inspirational impact. Even without being the principal reason for her sister’s decision to join the rebellion, the fact that she was a major part of the rebellion, a leader of the rebellion even, was enough for Maria
The sister who is the most courageous of them all would be Minerva. She was the one who started the whole riot against Trujillo
Minerva does not try and escape even though she “is always sad like a house on fire—always something wrong. She has many troubles, but the big one is her husband who left and keeps leaving” (Cisneros 63). Minerva is clearly unhappy, but because she is accepting of her role and she will not leave him. She does not have the power to leave her husband and if she tried she would probably be beaten or worse. Esperanza wants to help Minerva but there is nothing that she can do for her: “Next week she comes over black and blue and asks what can she do? Minerva. I don’t know which way she’ll go. There is nothing I can do” (Cisneros 63). Esperanza knows that she cannot do anything for Minerva. It will take the power of Minerva removing herself from the abusive situation to actually save herself. Minerva having no power in her marriage is a clear relationship back to the theme of women accepting their role with men as their superior.
...ngly like a goddess of Victory (paragraph 20)." She had fought the battle of life, health, the death of her husband, and she was a peace with her self. She came out of the room and clasped to her sister's waist. This shows she was starting to weaken, but she fought the battle and won. She could now face death fearless and strong.
Little Red Riding Hood retold by the Brothers Grimm version by Paul Galdone includes a "sweet little maiden" (Galdone 1) who never wears anything else but a little red velvet cloak, given to her by her Grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood's mother asks her to take cake and a bottle of wine to her Grandmother. The wolf in the woods is very talented as in she is somewhat convincing in the story. She first approaches Little Red Riding Hood in the woods keeping her calm with polite conversation and convinces her then to pick the beautiful flowers, meanwhile, she scurried away to Grandmother's cottage to devour Grandmother; later to devour Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf later lay there in Grandmother's bed convincingly as Grandmother in Grandmother's cap down over her face. After convincing Little Red Riding Hood to approach the wolf then devours her. The heroin turns out to be a huntsman, whom "took a knife and began cutting open the sleeping wolf" (Galdone 26) when out popped Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood is victorious by putting all inside the wolf big stones, which weighed him down, ...
At the time Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, females were extremely limited in their education, careers and life choices. Women were educated in coquettish arts such as to sing, paint, and play music, or essentially to entertain. Their careers were limited to servants, nurses, wives and the like and they often did not choose for themselves what became of their lives (Lecture PowerPoint). Wollstonecraft, was understandably angered by these
During her journey we begin to see how the wolf was being framed as a predator because he stalks her behind trees, bushes, and shrubs. The moment Little Red Riding Hood tells him that she is headed to her ill grandma's house; at this very moment,
...d exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a constraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer…..it is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” (Borders Classic, Ch. 12). While no one refused women as human beings, they were looked upon as totally different species from the men, who were accepted by society. Women are capable of what men are and suffer as much as men do, if not more. Judging someone for attempting to “seek to do more or learn more” because of their sex is ignorant. Jane has suffered more than most children have in their childhood, but she managed to surpass that, and she gained a great education despite what others thought about females receiving knowledge.