The Tenement Book Review

The tenement is a book naturalist the book that has more success in illustrate the naturalism in Brazil, so you can see characteristics of this style very strong in the book. It is important to remember that this work is not the main character João Romão but the tenement. The tenement is a kind of shantytown, which João Romão a very cost built, saving how could and taking advantage in the sale of products in its stores. In trajetoria has also an ally, Bertoleza that helped steal the material of construction of a quarry in the region for the construction of small cubículos, which later would be inhabited by the quarry workers and their wives lavadeiras, without knowing that John later buy the quarry . In the story there is also the presence of Jerome, Portuguese worker who came with his family to Brazil in coming to the tenement through a job that had been offered him by João Romão suffers influence of the medium and becomes vagabundear and allow the employee to be exemplary before that out, blamed on Rita Baiana. Rita was a typical Brazilian, working liked to high pagoda and music until late hours, namorava Firmo, but this is no longer interesting to her because he was killed by Jerome in a fight for animals, where only one could survive. Pombinha, and some educated girl as if it were the nobility also lived the tenement, this never menstruado, and his mother would not marry unless such menstruasse. He was taken home Leónie, where is seduzida and on the day after the visit is mocinha. House with the man who was promised, but then were separated and turns prostitute next to the previously fired. Beside the tenement, in a majestic sobrado lived Miranda and his family. The first had acquired the title of baron and the envy of João Romão, which cobiçava a good life and quiet of Miranda and title. I should marry the daughter of Baron to acquire more wealth, but it needed to get rid of Bertoleza, black nojenta with whom he slept every night. By that time John was richer, walked with fine clothes and badly care of your sale, leaving everything in charge of its employees, however Bertoleza was an obstacle in the life of the same, as the most enriching prevented from wedding with the couple Zulmira. Finally, John has an idea with the help of Botelho, deliver the black for your old you, as it was not in fact alforriada. Bertoleza prefer to be killed with a knife, descamar fish to be delivered to its former owner by the police. In the book is shown the progress and regression of the influence of characters per tenement, to the tenement changes with time, and will only accept people in the class higher than the previous, forcing members old and poor to go to another shantytown , "head of cat." João Romão to build the tenement enriches and will reject the poverty that people and Jerome ceases to be a good worker to go to the tenement and Rita Baiana know, these are the two characters that has perceived changes in advance. As naturalist book shows lower classes and the problems of this, there is also the presence zôo-morfismo and determinism.