Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus

The reason for this is that people migrate from the North where they have severe droughts and they are looking for work in the capital and other industrialized cities in Brazil. Another reason is that when slavery was abolished, the Negro population also had to find work. There was work but not enough. There was nothing for the unskilled and uneducated. No one wanted to hire uneducated, poor farmers and blacks so for the lack of money they settled in the favelas. The favelas grew until they became small cities within cities (P. 8).
             The favela became the backyard for the city where all the garbage went. "The driver and his helper threw away some cans" (P. 35). The politicians keep the prices from rising this way. They wait until the food rots and throw it to the favelados just as you would throw a piece of rotten meat to dogs. The politicians would rather let the favelados starve then give them unsold and unspoiled food. .
             The favelados are treated like puppets. The politicians come ones every four years to get the votes and then vanish without a trace. .
             The politicians only show up here during election campaigns. Senhor Candido Sampaio, when he was city councilman in 1953, spent his Sundays here in the favela. He drank our coffee, drinking right out of our cups. He made us laugh with his jokes. He played with our children. He left a good impression here and when he was candidate for state deputy, he won. Bu the Chamber of Deputies did not do one thing for the favelados. He does not visit us anymore (P. 34).
             The politicians play with favelados' feelings. They touch on the gravest of problems hunger and living conditions and promise social reform but in the end give nothing. "that he is only in politics to improve our living conditions, asking for our votes, promising to freeze prices" (P. 40). However, the people do not matter to the politicians; it is the power and the money that they are after.
             It seems that Carolina Maria is the only one from her favela that follows the politicians not only during electoral campaigns but after they had been elected.