Minerva's History

                                                   

Story begins in 1938  

-  Minerva leaves house with Patria to go to the boarding school named Inmaculada Concepcion.

- At school, she meets Sinita, and becomes friends. Sinita tells her about Trujillo’s wrongful intentions and also that how he destroyed her family. Minerva changes her thoughts about Trujillo that he’s not a saint, he is an evil person.

1941

-  She also meets Lina, who’s a beautiful girl. Lina becomes involves with Trujillo and becomes pregnant with his child. Trujillo sends her to Miami, as his mistress, because her life was in danger from Trujillo’s wife. It makes Minerva very angry.

1944

-  Minerva and friends perform a skit on Trujillo’s birthday. Sinita aims a bow and arrow at Trujillo as revenge and shots. Fortunately, Trujillo was saved, but the girls were in trouble. Minerva made an excuse saying that it was just a part of our skit, so that Sinita can be released.

1949

-  Minerva’s been gradated from boarding school. She’s been living at home for few years. There are rumors that she doesn’t like men.
-  She wants to go to law school, but her family refused her. They want her to stay home.

- Minerva meets Lio and started to like him.

- She finds out about her father’s relationship with another woman and her step-siblings.

- She finds the letters in her father’s pocket from Lio and she never got and also the invitation from Trujillo’s private party.

- She attends Trujillo party. While she was dancing with him, she talked to him about going to law school and also tells him that she doesn’t know Lio. Trujillo misbehaves her and she slaps him. Then she leaves the party, but forgets her purse, which has the letters from Trujillo.

- Her father goes to jail, because his daughter misbehaved with the dictator and Minerva goes for questioning at the National Police Headquarter.

- Trujillo demands her to sleep with him, but she makes a bet that she wins, she get to go to law school and if he does, he get to sleep with her. Of course, she wins and goes to law school.

1953- 1957

-  Her father becomes very week from the tortures, when he comes back home from prison and as a result he dies.

- She meets Manolo, who is a revolutionary, and marries him.

- Minerva graduates from law school, but her license wasn’t proved to practice law.

1960

-  Minerva’s on house arrest, after being in jail about seven month.

- She’s overwhelmed and people look at her as a hope, but she probably had some bad effects on her mind from the prison. She starts to scare to go out to the house and also the loud noises.

- Minerva and her sister’s husband are in the jail and they are trying to get them out.

- One day after visiting Manolo, Miverva gets killed when she was going home.