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Trujillo's Effect On Her Mother

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Alvarez unfolds how Trujillo impacted her mother in a chronological order in a revealing way. Alvarez explains at first that her mother adores Trujillo. It was the way of life for the Dominican Republic people. She was raised to be this way in a life of her eyes revolving around this dictator who showed to be really good, but was not good at all. An example of a false representation of the dictator is Stalin or Hitler. They both showed pride with posters, books, for the public to convince on how they were such good leaders but really they were not as they had killed millions, in The Holocaust or Stalin Purges. (OI) Trujillo was one of those guys, and he affected Alvarez mother as pulling her into this trap of mesmerising him as a hero.

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