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A Certain Captain Rodrigo

Book Review by: VitorGuilherme    

Original Author: Érico Verissimo
This abstract was translated from Um Certo Capitão Rodrigo
The sixth chapter of the part THE Continent of the cyclical trilogy THE Time and the Wind. Santa Fé, 1828. Santa Fé arrives
Captain Rodrigo it will Crook. He/she was 30 years old and it had participated in several wars, in 18811, 1817, 1821 and 1825. He/she makes friends with Juvenal Terra. He/she knows Bibiana when this is going to the cemetery to place flowers in your grandmother''s grave, Ana Terra. Rodrigo decides to stay in Santa Fé. To priest''s Lara advice, the vicar, he/she will ask permission the authority of the area, colonel Ricardo Amaral Neto. The colonel, alleging not to be the villa place for people like him, he/she asks that leaves. But the captain is willing to be. Bibiana Terra had impressed him/it. He/she/you was hours and hours looking at your house, in the corner of the square. Because of the youth, Bento Amaral and Rodrigo they were misunderstood at a party. They go up the coxilha for a duel. Rodrigo is reached by a shot discharged by a bully of Bento Amaral. Juvenal welcomes Captain Rodrigo, very wounded, in your house. Reestablished, he marries Bibiana in 1829. Rodrigo starts to work with Juvenal. They open a grocery store with groceries that you/they bring of Brown Rio. They are born Bolivar and Anita, children of Bibiana and Rodrigo, and Florêncio, son of Juvenal and Arminda. In 1833, they arrive Saint Faith German immigrants. They are them Erwin Kunz and Hans Schultz and your families. They settle in small ranches in the surroundings of the villa. Captain Rodrigo doesn''t get to get used to Santa Faith''s quiet life. He/she/you plays, he/she wraps up with other women, he/she works a little. Your daughter Anita, dies without he came to help her. He/she/you begins the Revolução Farroupilha and Rodrigo it is going to the battles. In the year of 1836, the legalistas attack the villa. It accompanies them Rodrigo, that is with Bibiana, to your wait home. The group takes the big house of Amaral, but Rodrigo dies reached in the chest by a candy. Lady Picucha Terra Fagundes, daughter of Horácio Terra, tells histories of your new heroes - Garibaldi, Bento Gonçalves and Canabarro. And speech of the wars that took care of Big Rio and they took your children. I am " valiant with the weapons, I am guapo as a lion, old Indian without government, My law is heart. "
Published: April 24, 2008
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