Book: Captains of the

Sands
 Real life of street children

Smallpox epidemic

Injustices
Begging, gambling, stealing and burglary
 1937: Year of the publication

In the year of publication 808 copies were

burnt in a square in Salvador, together with works
of other authors, under the pretext that they were
communist propaganda.
 Class struggle
The author Jorge Amado was engaged with
class struggle and shows us by the book about
children on the margins of society.