In The Time of The Butterflies - Julia Alvarez: Mate's Timeline

Maria Teresa's Timeline of Important Events

• Minerva gives Mate her first diary for her First Communion
• Receives her first pair of high heels (makes her feel grown)
• Mate is influenced by Minerva  (who she looks up to the most) and lies to the principal of her school
• Mate finds out about Minerva's anti-governmental attitude
• Her opinions of Trujillo flip flopped as she started to see both sides of the issue
• Hilda gets caught by police and Mate needs to bury the diary.
• 1953 - December - Mate's father dies.
• December 15, 1953 - Mate learns about her father's affair and other children
• Receives her new diary from Minerva
• January 1, 1954 - Mate has her first kiss with Berto
• July 3, 1954 - Mate graduates
• Refuses to marry
• Mate goes to school with Minerva
• Minerva marries Manolo and becomes pregnant
• Changes her major to philosophy
• Moves in with Minerva
• Mate is informed of Manolo's affair
• Mate takes care of their baby in order to fix their marriage
• Meets Palomino and learns of the revolution and the weapons
• Mate moves out of Minerva's house and into her own apartment in a "humble part of town"
• Realizes her love for Palomino
• Joins the revolution
• Mate and Palomino get married
• They have a child together
• Mate becomes arrested for being involved with the revolution with Palomino
• Eventually gets put on house arrest and goes to visit her husband in prison.
• On her way home Mate, Minerva, and Patria are murdered for being revolutionaries.