Leitura literária: Capitães da areia, Jorge Amado, como recurso na formação de leitores

Abstract

This work highlights within Jorge Amado's Capitães da Areia, the plot used by the narrative author for the social denunciation that was happening at the time he was writing the work. Aiming at the process to which children reported in the work, childhood is neglected from the experiences lived by each character, because despite the lack of opportunity children feel the desire to change a better life and abandon life on the streets and this This is done through the reading presented to them by a member of the group. Society itself today ends up excluding people, leaving them in a social vulnerability, and it is necessary that this problem be solved. Given this, this work in addressing the way of overcoming from Literary Reading: as a resource in the formation of readers based on the work captains of sand, is justified as an important work in this sense. Analyze the work Capitães da Areia as a resource for reader education as well as identify the importance of the work as an incentive for reading, despite the social context; describe the facts that led the group of children and adolescents to live in the streets and explore the interest of street children in reading, within the work Capitães da Areia by Jorge Amado. To base the discussion about the thematic approached in the referred work, a bibliographical research was used based on the ideas of some authors as: Umberto Eco (1990), Regina Zilbermam (1998), Massaud Moisés (2001), Roger Chartier (2004) among others and some articles. The research enabled us to reflect on the role of society with the issue of abandoned minors and the lack of opportunities these children face. However, despite the children's behavior being inadequate because of their situation, some managed to abandon their old life