Resumo de Sand Captains

'Sand Captains' is a novel about a group of abandoned and forgotten
minors that terrorize Salvador. The only that maintain a relation with
them are the city father, Padre José Pedro, and a local healer.
Pedro Bala, the lider, with long blonde hairs and a scar on his face,
is a kind of a father to the other childs, even being as young as the
others, and then he discovers to be the son of an union lider killed
durong a strike; Volta Seca, Lampião's protegè, hates the authoritys e
wishes to become a hitman; Professor, who read and draw wildly, has a
very peculiar talent; Gato, with is on-going touch, ends up conquering
the heart of a hore, Dalva; Sem-Pernas, the lump kid tha acts as a spy
by pretending to be a motherless child (and, in one of the houses he
visits, is wellcomed, but, without knowing how, ends up fooling the
family); João Grande, the 'good neger', as Pedro Bala says, the second
in the line of command; Querido-de-Deus, a 'capoeira' sportsman qich is
only a friend of the gang; and Pirulito, wich has a huge religious
belief.
The strong point of the first part can be divided in two: when the kids
get involved with a circus that came in town and reveal all their
childness; and when the goosepops attacks the city and even takes away
one's life, even with Padre José Pedro helping out and getting his neck
risked for it. The second part, a girl becomes the first 'Sand
Captain', e even though all the boys try to rape her at the beginning,
she becomes everybodys's mother and sister. Homossexuality is a common
pratice among the group, even though Pedro Bala tries to stop it at a
given time, and all of them use to 'score some chicks' in the beach.
But Professor and Pedro Bala both fall in love for Dora, while she
falls for Pedro Bala. When they are captured (because in few time she
begins stealing like the other boys), they are severelly punished. Once
escaped, they love eachother for the first time on teh beach and she
dies, pointing the begin of the end of the group. The last part will
show us the tumble of the group.
'Sand Captains' are heroic Robin Hood's of modern times who steal from
the rich to give to them (the poor). Communism is shown as something
good, and Padre José Pedro has doubts concerning the official Church
position regarding the matter. Broadly, the social concerns fill the
script, but the kid's existencial problems makes them corajeous and
unique characters, brave 'Sand Captains' in Salvador.

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