Even though it was not intentional, the title Quarto de despejo reminds thousands of people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, which destabilized the entire world. Brazil's crisis, which began years before the coronavirus, gained worldwide attention. The pandemic exposed everything. Without hiding it, it highlighted class separations, the lack of assistance, among other social ills. In the work Quarto de despejo, Jesus (1960) demonstrated courage in expressing much of the reality in which he lives, a harsh reality, cruel, with inequality, machismo, prejudice, racism, misery, poverty, hunger and oppression. Thus, it is possible to affirm that social inequality, in the past and in the 21st century, is a continuous, structural factor.
Social inequality occurs whenever there is an unfair distribution of income, which creates a population without a family, economic, educational or cultural structure, without access to basic survival requirements and more vulnerable to experiencing crime. In this sense, the rates of low-income young people are currently a growing factor. Brazil is currently considered one of the countries with the greatest social inequality in the world: During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands and thousands of poor people lost the fight against the pandemic in an attempt to survive, thousands of people went hungry, found themselves face to face with misery and misfortune, which presents a superlative identification with the work of Carolina Maria de Jesus.
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Life and work of Carolina Maria de Jesus in modern times
Kurgu OlmayanAnalysis of the work of author Carolina Maria de Jesus and topics covered in the book comparing Brazil's situation during the COVID-19 pandemic
