Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria De Jesus
Life in Latin America during the twentieth century was a far cry from the life that we were accustomed to. Many of her countries were and still are devastated by poverty and corruption in government. There are two people with unique yet similar life stories that help to illustrate the sadness and pain felt by the poor in Latin America. Carolina Maria De Jesus was born in 1913 in Sacramento, a small town in the inner part of Brazil. She is the author of Child of the Dark. This is her first hand account of life in a Brazilian favelas, or slum. She moved to the favelas with her three children after three different men had abandoned her as well as her employers. It was in this favelas where she would spend the next agonizing eleven years of her life. Each day she would wake up between five o’clock and seven o’clock in the morning to wait in line for water for her children. She would come home and cook them breakfast if she had any food. The rest of her day was spent searching the town for scraps of paper, metal and, food. She would trade the scrap metal and paper for next to nothing, and then spend all of it that day on food and other necessities. She would bring the food home to her children but it was never eno
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Approximate Word count = 1077
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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