![]() ![]() ![]() In these journal entries she documented the grinding poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment that characterized the lives of her neighbors, calling attention to a host of social problems -prostitution, adultery, incest, alcoholism, physical violence, foul language -that these ills engendered. There, around 1955, de Jesus began keeping a crudely written account of the brutal reality of her day-to-day existence in a community populated by society's outcasts. Eventually, she moved into a shack in one of the city's worst favelas (slums). ![]() As a young adult she migrated to S ão Paulo, South America's industrial megalopolis, where as an unemployed single parent she struggled to eke out a living for herself and her three children. During her childhood, de Jesus had few educational opportunities, taking only two years of formal schooling. Born illegitimate and impoverished in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Carolina Maria de Jesus had to overcome a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles throughout her lifetime just to survive. ![]()
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