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 daeducação dos pequenos. Certamente ela não era culpada.Entregue aos arranjos da casa, regando os craveiros e aspanelas de losna, descendo ao bebedouro com o pote vazio eregressando com o pote cheio, deixava os filhos soltos nobarreiro, enlameados como porcos.

Space Northeasern

The farm

ConflictThe 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.

ClimaxThe owner of the farmer arrives, and the

family has to leave the farm.

Fabiano kills Baleia. The question of both is WHY?

Literary contextThrities The coffee crisis, Getulio Vargas. Second fase of modernismRegions 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.

BiographyGraciliano Ramos 1892 — 1953, Rio de JaneiroGraciliano 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.

Group:AmandaBiancaDianaMalena Rafaele

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