Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria De Jesus

Life in Latin America during the twentieth century was a far cry from the life that we were accustomed to. Many of her countries were and still are devastated by poverty and corruption in government. There are two people with unique yet similar life stories that help to illustrate the sadness and pain felt by the poor in Latin America. Carolina Maria De Jesus was born in 1913 in Sacramento, a small town in the inner …

…Both of these people lived in a prison. Victor’s prison was fear. Carolina’s prison was poverty. These are two different types of prisons, yet both can paralyze a person’s life. Fortunately both persons were able to escape from the prisons that would not allow them to be free. Carolina’s tool for escape was the publishing of her book, while Victors was to escape from the country that he loved so dearly.