WOW! This book is just amazing! I love how Julia Alvarez connects each figurative language to the conflict the sisters go through. In chapter six, Minerva is the main character finding out implacable things. One afternoon, Minerva was taking a ride down a rode where she came upon a familiar car by a small yellow house.... She could swear it was her fathers, but she wasn't quite sure. Everyday she passed by it hoping to find out who's car it was; then finally one day as she passed by the house a familiar face appears, her father. Any child would be petrified to find out that their father has a secret life and another family. Her father was shocked to see that she was there. "He took one look at me and got as pale as an olive-skinned man can get." This quote is an example of a simile,
and because the father had some color in him, Minerva compares him to becoming so pale that you could now see how mortified he was.
Throughout the novel the Mirabal sisters face many external and internal conflicts; still keeping faith in their hands. It is indeed important to recognize the sisters for their past actions and what they did for their country; their actions still affect and influence people today in the Dominican Republic. Internally, as we read the novel were watching each Mirabal grow up, becoming women, creating families of their own and developing their own beliefs. Each of them want to be loyal to their family but some of their beliefs pull them in directions where they must make a choice. Going from a girl to a women changes you in many different ways; your features began to change, your body grows up. Externally, the sisters are faced with how much they choose to become involved with the revolution against Trujillo and his regime. 
