Carolina's In The Child Of The Dark

In the Child of the Dark is about a woman, who is Carolina explains her life in Sao Paula during 1960s. She had rough times during her life, including, she lost her mother while she continued poor. In addition, she had three children, and she wanted to write her story about her life in the tough times with the kids while she remained miserable. She wanted to buy her things such as shoes, but she could not because she did not have enough money in Sao Paulo. In addition, her children sometimes get in trouble, including suicide, which Carolina explained in her story of her family life. There are a lot of problems for her and her family, which reason she wanted to share the story with others.

In the Carolina’s book, she explains her life tough

In the reading of A Mother’s Tale, explains about her family issues. Right from the beginning, Bom Jesus De Mata had no or little education, but she wrote her story about her life. Furthermore, her mother, which is her title of the story, mentioned she had a poor mother, and she had to get help from her aunt. She said, “When I was about five years old, Mae [mother] took me away from Tia [aunt] and gave me to another woman, a woman who lived next to us on the plantation” (1). Her mother could not take care of her, so she had to take her in another place to another woman in the plantation. The other woman, Jacinta Vegas has a similar problem with having family issues. In the article, “It is difficult living here, but I have to used to it and my children, after all, were born

She had a rough time with her family, including her family issues. Furthermore, she coped while she wrote her life story to become a book author, so she can become famous when she told her severe life story in Sao Plato. Another woman, Bom Jesus de Mata coped by with her baby, Zezinho because he was an only baby to give love. In the reading, “That when I decided to go to Ferreiras to find work picking vegetables” (2). She liked to pick vegetables while she happened not to do well with her two husbands in the past, but she met her third husband, which they put her work with him. She coped by working and picking vegetables. The last woman, Jacinta Vegas, cope by working at “the Regatta Club down by the beach. It’s very exclusive club” (1). She did clean the bathrooms, work in the cloakroom as an attendant, and watch over the people’s cases and clothes when they are in the wash. She likes that job because it gets her pay in $2 a day, however, she works for twice a week. Nevertheless, “For three months during the summer I have work every day, and on top of that, I get an annual bonus of twelve dollars” (1). These women like to cope when they are poor by working because they received more money than they started their