In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined

Learn about Julia Alvarez’s approach to writing someone else’s story in this resource from the American Masters film Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined. In her book In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez delves into a time period in the Dominican Republic where a dictatorship shook the lives of many. Guide your students through a series of questions about the steps Alvarez took in writing the book.