What are some quotes where the moon is used as symbolism in the book In the Time of the Butterflies?

The use of the moon symbolically seems to indicate the
level of violence at each stage in this incredible novel. The moon seems to act as some
kind of gauge of the level of safety or danger of the girls and the kind of repressed
violence that there is at various points in the novel. Note the following two
examples.

Firstly, in Dede's flashback in Chapter One, the
clear moonlight is symbolic of the time of peace and family unity experienced by the
sisters with their parents at the beginning:

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She remembers a clear moonlit night before the
future began. they are sitting in the cool darkness under the anacahuita tree in the
front yard, in the rockers, telling stories, drinking guanabana
juice.

Note how the "clear
moonlight" seems to symbolically represent the openness and happiness of the family,
before the "future began."

However, if we consider how the
moon is referred to in Chapter Six, there is a marked difference as the description of
the moon is used to foreshadow the slap that Minerva receives from her father and the
trouble between them:

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The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its
way through patches of clouds. By its sharp light I could see my father stop and turn to
face me.

Note how the
metaphor employed in this quote compares the moon to a "machete," and its "sharp" light
effectively foreshadows the sudden slap that Minerva
receives.

Thus it can be seen from these two examples that
the moon is used to indicate violence or peace and the various states that the sisters
experience in their lives.