Mate 1960: La Victoria

During times in prison, Mate was an influential figure for her peers. In the Mate section of 1960, Alaverez speaks on how Mate was able to smuggle a notebook into the prison she was being held in. In this notebook she was able to write her thoughts and also the lessons which she would teach her students in the classes and discussions they held daily. In these meetings Mate along with her peer women political's, told the other women that  they must, "Never believe them. Never fear them. Never ask them anything." These three sayings were the three rules that the women went by. The "them" in which Mate spoke of were the people of dictator Trujillo. Throughout this chapter, Mates strength is shown in multiple ways with the women she speaks to and the bold moves she makes. These three rules which the women stayed true to were the three golden rules that helped to keep the secret society she was trying to build together. These three rules helped to keep these women true to what they believed in. Trujillo would try to tell the what he wanted and brain wash their thoughts so that they to would follow his rule and become disciplined to his ideas. If these women were to give in and not follow these three rules the hope for them would be lost and forgotten as they struggled to keep their faith. As a character, we watch Mate grow from being a young innocent girl into a very secure strong willed person able to show others her ideas and whats right as opposed to what dictator Trujillo wanted the prisoners to think or the country as a whole to believe. As a class, when we first began to read the book and took notes on each character we started that Mate was young, innocent, spoiled and eager to please but here we see her growing up and becoming  a women that posses some of the character traits of each of her sisters, but mostly following the traits of Miner