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.
Group:
 Amanda
 Bianca
 Diana
 Malena
 Rafaele
ÁRTICA ♥