Summary: Patria has been feeling terrible without her son or husband. As soon as news arrive that can help Patria know the whereabouts of the men, she sets up a package to smuggle into prison. Next, she reads in the news that eight prisoners have been pardoned. Patria feels hope, but Captain Peña has taken over her land. Patria has been praying on behalf of her family while the church is being attacked by the government for their revolutionary sermons. During, Patria and Captain Peña's conversation they plan on when Nelson should be out and how they should celebrate, Patria offers a sancocho. Then she goes and tells her mom that in her payers she has offered the lord herself in exchange for Nelson.
Maria Teresa is also in prison, at La Victoria and she has been writting in a smuggled notebook. Teresa and the rest of the woman are locked up with sixteen non politicals who are there for serious crimes. When it comes for her turn to be released along with the rest who are politicals, she feels sad to be leaving the other inmates who became like her sisters. One of them was Magdalena whom was serving 20 years for attempted murder when he tried to get her daughter back when a wealthy family known as De La Torres took her away. Captain Peña suggests Patria and the other girls write Trujillo a thank you letter, but they are not convinced just yet until Leandro and the rest of the men are safe.
Trujillo begins cracking down out of panic, and Captain Peña tells the girls not to visit the men in prison any longer. Manolo believes that he and the other prisoners will be killed, and that's when the girls decide to take action. They begin to organize a meeting at Minerva's house, and their Tio happens to stop by, and tell them he overheard Trujillo's conversation. Trujillo had said that his only problem was the church and the Mirabal sisters. Later on November 25, Minerva and Maria Teresa go to Puerto Plata to visit Manolo and Leandro, the men told the sisters to wait until the next day because rumors had been going around, and it was not safe. However, they still decided to head home. The girls were taken away from their jeep and killed. Through visitors that came to Dede, she is able to infer what happened to her sisters. The sisters were killed by strangulation and placed back in their jeep, then pushed over the edge of the cliff. The men responsable for their deaths were taken to prison, but soon released. Manolo, Leandro, and Pedrito were released following up to Trujillo's assasination.
Quote: "Si dios quiere, she reminded him" (Alvarez 286).
Reaction: This quote is from when the girls were going to Puerto Plata to visit the men, and it means if god wants. In other words they would only make it on god's behalf, which I find ironic as to how Patria had offered herself for Nelson to be let out. Then that same night at Puerto Plata the sisters are killed. The sisters had once mentioned they did not pardon anything they had done so far, which is like Antigone she believes she has done nothing wrong. They also accept the consequences of going to prison for what they did and even death. They did not fear Trujillo who in other words was the law like Creon. The sisters do end up getting killed, but so does Trujillo. Also, reading through this I noticed they mentioned the last name Peña, which is one of my last names, and also the plate known as sancocho that is one of my favorites.
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