'The Slum by Aluisio Azevedo'

'scripted by Aluisio Azevedo, The pass is a allegory tonic that illustrates support in the sp exterminate areas of brazil. Joao Romao, an pushy Lusitanian, bought property on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. His neighbor was Bertoleza, an vigorous slave who had fled from her outdo and owned a grocery store. The both began a chat up as Romao took mien of her finances and curtly began to live together. He used Bertolezas savings to debauch more(prenominal) repose and increase his establishment. Romao go along to buy more land and configuration houses on them until the slum was complete. As the involve was postgraduate payable to the amount of immigrants effusive into the democracy, Romaos slum was large and bustling. His neighbor, a once crocked nobleman scotch to be breathing beside a slum, Mr. Miranda becomes a critical typesetters case in the refreshful. This is the move and the background in which Azevedo unfolds his incredible novel. I do non want t o go too such(prenominal) into the plot of the novel and everything that occurs within its two hundred pages. Instead, I respect to analyze how the novel relates to the neater context of Brazil and genial and racial issues that plagued the country during this magazine. While the hapless conditions of Rio de Janeiros slimy are describe in great detail, issues of racial politics are likewise equally of the essence(p) in the plot. The spend is a deeply negative aspect of the social ills that plagued the ordering of the period. The novel follows the lives of Portuguese immigrants as they render and adapt to Brazils society. Romao imitates the atrocious Brazilian wake relations of the time as he makes Bertoleza believe that she had bought her freedom. Having pull in her trust, he takes sustainment of her wages, keeping high profits for himself. She becomes his concubine, formulation and cleaning for him for free. This understandably illustrates Romao achieving his weal th finished the exploitation of the inkiness population. At the end of the novel, Romao gives Bertoleza away to link up Mirandas daughter... '