Graciliano Ramos
Narrator Omniscient narrator Third person Free indirect discourse “Lembrou-se de Seu Tomás da bolandeira. Dos homens do sertão, o mais arrasado era Seu Tomás da bolandeira. Por quê? Só se era porque lia demais. Ele, Fabiano, muitas vezes dissera: — ‘Seu Tomás, vosse mecê não regula’.”
Characters Fabiano : a rude man, a cowboy, work exhaustly for his family. Finds himself like an animal, when he does a self analysis. Sinhá Vitória: she wanted a leather bed like that of Thomas da Boladeira O menino mais novo: admired his father. O menino mais velho: was obsessed about the hell Baleia: its name brings great irony and it was most “human” of the family. O soldado amarelo: representation of the state
Time Psycologic “Agora queria entender-se com Sinha Vitória a respeito da educação dos pequenos. Certamente ela não era culpada. Entregue aos arranjos da casa, regando os craveiros e as panelas de losna, descendo ao bebedouro com o pote vazio e regressando com o pote cheio, deixava os filhos soltos no barreiro, enlameados como porcos.
Space Northeasern The farm
Conflict The angry and the dry season are the worst problems. The conflict grows around the difficulties faced by Fabiano's family, difficulties those caused by the drought.
Climax The owner of the farmer arrives, and the family has to leave the farm. Fabiano kills Baleia. The question of both is WHY?
Literary context Thrities The coffee crisis, Getulio Vargas. Second fase of modernism Regions of the country
Interpretative traces Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos portrays, throught a migrant’s family, the politic-social problems of Brazil and the repressing system, that was a reality around the world. The book is about the life of those that don’t have nothing, and live like animals.
Biography Graciliano Ramos 1892 — 1953, Rio de Janeiro Graciliano was arrested and, when he left the jail, went to Rio de Janeiro, and saw by distance, the drought in his country. O Mundo Coberto de Pennas.
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