Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Timeline of Minerva

1938 - Minerva goes to school.

- Minerva eventually meets Lena, a girl who has been taken in as a mistress by the Trujillo.  She tells Minerva that she is mistreated, and that the Trujillo is corrupt and devestating.  This startles Minerva, and makes her want to do something.

-Minerva starts to attend secret, anti - government meeting behind the backs of her parents.

1949- Minerva meets Lio, and starts to spend time with him

- Finds out that her father has been holding on to notes that Lio had been writing her.

- Goes to the Trujillo discovery dance, and slaps the dictator.

- Her father goes to jail

- Minerva is allowed to go to college to study law

1957 - Minerva graduates from college, but is prohibited from practicing law by the Trujillo

- Gets married to Manolo, and they begin to become revolutionaries.

-They are taken to jail in 1959, and get out on house arrest in 1960

- Refuses to accept her pardon, and is later released

- Gets killed visiting husband in jail, trying to get him out

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