Things Are Not Always What They Seem The underpinnings of Shirley Jacksons famous post World War II story The Lottery demonstrate that the work is far greater than the sum of its parts The date of the lottery its location and the symbolic or ironic names of its characters all work to convey a meaning that is even more disturbing than the shock created by its well known ending namely that despite assurances during the late 1940s that it couldnt happen here a microsomal holocaust occurs in this s
Plot Summary The novel In the Time of the Butterflies takes place in the Dominican Republic The whole novel itself is depicting the lives of four sisters struggling in this time of the dictator Rafael Trujillo The sisters throughout the whole book also narrate it There are four sections that are divided up according to the time and year Section 1 1938 1946 In the first chapter the surviving sister Dede starts off by talking to this American woman that is interviewing her and her story In the se