Women in Literature

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Many times the element that makes a book a classic is the fact that the human element become involved and therefore the reader gets attached to the story and the characters that are in it. This paper reviews "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez and "Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina" by Rita Arditti and shows how the authors draw the readers in until they become attached to the ladies of the stories. It examines how the commonalty of the stories is the fact that the protagonists have a serious life filled with struggles because of their presidents and how the struggle of one person against something as strong and powerful as a president is a story that can draw out the most maternal and paternal instincts in the most stoic reader.

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"In Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza De Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina by Rita Arditti the reader has a different approach all together. Instead of getting attached one by one the reader only has to get attached to the cause. It is a noble cause however and the grandmother's search for their grandbabies is heartbreaking to say the least. Each of the books provides an accurate accounting of the way the lives were for the protagonists and the readers are drawn to the plight of all involved. However there are different levels of concerns with each story. In the Butterfly story the sisters are portrayed as those who actually plan to overthrow the government while the story in Searching For Life is about grandmothers challenging the dictatorship."

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