Time Of The Butterflies Analysis

Crazy survival stories often dominate the news. Whether it be on the front page of the Sunday paper or the highlight of a late night news show to convince you to stay up just 15 more minutes to see how the story ends, the reason they are so intriguing is because the situations seem impossible. Many people might say that thinking on your feet or courage can get you out of situations, but the one thing that will ultimately determine if you survive is not something you can control. It is luck. When it comes to a natural disaster, there often is no way of seeing what is coming. Sometimes a tornado, flash flood, or hurricane alert might pop up on your phone or appear on the news, but it is easy to simply overlook these warnings. You never know where you will be at the time of striking. It is near impossible to perfectly time your location and surrounding resources when calamity will hit. The Nepalese boy, who survived for 5 days under a collapsed parking garage due to the devastating earthquake in 2015, had the will to live, determination, and resilience. After disclosing that he had

For the Nepalese boy, it was the location of butter that he happened to be near him and the timing of his rescue. Similarly in In the TIme of the Butterflies, Dede’s uncle had survived a gruesome prison, “He had spent nine months in La Victoria, enduring near starvation. My aunt had found a prison guard willing to smuggle in packages of food, medicines, and clothes to him” (p. 330). This is an example of how every element must work together, in this case Dede’s aunt being able to locate and communicate with a prison guard, found a guard who was willing to smuggle necessities into Dede’s uncle, and the fact that the guard was never caught. Without every part mentioned functioning the way they did, Dede’s uncle might not have