Graciliano Branches
The plot of Dry Lives is based basically for the arrival of the family of retirantes to an old farm abandoned and ruined and for a exit of the family, more to the end of the history, that ahead of a new period of drought, runs away for the South. In this half time the family lives as aggregate in the farm, for whose Fabiano proprietor she works, the head of the family. Thus they pass a moment of stop in one same place, a time who lived in a nomadismo provoked for dry. Soon in the first chapter the author denounces dries that he came being faced for the family of retirantes and shows the characteristics of each personage, characteristics these that are dealt with so naturalness that resembles them the animals moved for the survival instincts. In this context of misery function is identified to it Mr.
of the family as the responsible one for the survival of its children and woman, function this treated as load where the father if ahead submits and puts in game its dignity of the necessity, collating its situation with dries to the family and the life, as a whole. The ignorance of the man is still verified in Fabiano who if finds ahead in its situation of an idle society in stretches as when it goes to buy kerosene: it is with water. It goes to buy chita: she is expensive. It is led to the game, it does not know to communicate itself, and he is imprisoned. Another high point of the workmanship consists of the aspirations of the children and the members of the family in general way, that cannot ahead be satisfied of its condition as the dream of the Sinh Victory to have a bed. Without saying in the complicated situation of convivncia between the adults and the children, perhaps generated for this condition of impossibility of satisfaction of the aspirations of the same ones.