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For our wikipedia article, me and Sean are translating a lot of the english article on Carolina Maria de Jesus into portuguese, as the english one has a lot more information. We are also updating both wikipedia pages with better information and helping the format look better.

Here is what I will be translating:

Early Life Biography section:

Maria Leite Monteiro de Barros, a wealthy landowner's wife who was also a benefactor to other poor Black neighborhood children, supported her for a while and paid for her schooling.

Sua escola foi pago por Maria Leite Monteiro de Barros, uma esposa de um fazendeiro rico, que também apoiava financeiramente outras crianças negras.

As her mother had illegitimate children, her family was excluded from Catholic Church. Nevertheless, she never stopped considering herself a Catholic. For instance, she often made biblical references and praises to God in her diary: "I dreamt I was an angel. My dress was billowing and had long pink sleeves. I went from earth to heaven. I put stars in my hands and played with them. I talked to the stars. They put on a show in my honor. They danced around me and made a luminous path. When I woke up I thought: I’m so poor. I can't afford to go to a play so God sends me these dreams for my aching soul. To the God who protects me, I send my thanks." (The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesús, Robert M. Levine)

Como sua mãe tinha filhos ilegítimos, sua família era excluída da Igreja Católica--não obstante, Carolina nunca parou de se considerar uma Católica. Por exemplo, frequentemente referia à Bíblia e louvava Deus no seu diário: "Sonhei que era um anjo. Meu vestido estava flutuando e tinha mangas rosas compridas. Fui da terra para o céu. Pus estrelas em minhas mãos e brincava com elas. Falei-as. Elas apresentaram um me honrando. Dançaram ao meu redor e criaram um caminho luminoso. Quando acordei eu pensei: estou tão pobre. Não consigo pagar para ir e assistir uma peça, então Deus me manda esses sonhos para minha alma dolorida. Ao Deus que me protege, eu mando meu gratidão." (The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesús, Robert M. Levine)

Among the materials she collected, there would be an occasional journal or notebook, as well as books, which encouraged her to start recording her day-to-day activities and write about life in the favela. It angered her neighbors that she was always writing because they were illiterate and felt uncomfortable at the thought of her writing about them. Her neighbors were jealous of her and tended to treat de Jesus and her children badly. She never considered getting married, on account of having witnessed too much domestic violence in the slums and preferring to remain an independent woman. She had three children, each from a different relationship (at least one of whom was with a wealthy white man). Unlike many fellow Black women, de Jesus celebrated her race and was proud of it. To her, her skin and hair looked beautiful.

Ocasionalmente, Carolina catava um diário, caderno, ou livro, os quais a encorajava para começar a registrar seus atividades cotidianas e sua vida na favela. Seu escrito constante enraivecia seus vizinhos--eram analfabetos e sentiam incômodos em pensar que ela estava escrevendo sobre eles. Por conseguinte, seus vizinhos eram invejosos dela e tenderam a maltratar Carolina e seus filhos. Ela nunca queria se casar e preferiu permanecer uma mulher independente--tinha visto demasiado violência domestica na favela. Ela tinha três filhos, cada um de um relacionamento diferente (pelo menos um filho era de um homem branco e rico). Diferente de muitos colegas negras, de Jesus celebrava e se orgulhava de sua raça--para ela, sua pele e cabelo eram bonitos.

In her diary, she gives details about the daily life of favelados (the inhabitants of favelas), and bluntly describes the political and social facts which impacted their lives. She writes of how poverty and desperation can cause people of elevated moral character to abandon their principles and dishonor themselves to simply feed their families. According to her, favelados would never get the chance to save money, as any extra earnings would immediately be used to pay off debts.

No seu diário, Carolina da detalhes sobre a vida diária de pessoas morando na favela, e descreve francamente os fatos politicas e sociais que impactaram suas vidas. Ela escreve sobre como pobreza e desespero podem causar pessoas de caráter moral alta a abandonar seus princípios e se desonrar simplesmente para alimentar suas famílias. Segundo Carolina, pessoas na favela nunca podiam poupar dinheiro, porque qualquer rendimento extra seria usado imediatamente para pagar dívidas.

De Jesus wrote another four books after Quarto de despejo, to a scanty success. She rose to fame and fell from grace very rapidly. This could be because of her strong personality, which kept her from getting along with people very well. Also, the Brazilian political landscape changed drastically after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, which left little room for freedom of expression. She still wrote poems, short stories, and brief memoirs, none of which were ever published. In fact, her obituary in a 1977 edition of the Jornal do Brasil speaks of her blaming herself for not being able to take advantage of her brief celebrity status and states that her stubbornness led her to die in poverty[citation needed]. Still, her biography and memoirs provide insight into Brazilian favela life. While her life story can be seen as a struggle with tragedy, it is possible to regard her views as common Brazilian attitudes towards society, family life, equality, poverty, and other aspects of daily existence in the 1960s.

De Jesus escreveu mais quatro livros depois Quarto de despejo, com pouco sucesso. Ela ganhou fama rapidamente, mas caiu da mesma rapidez – talvez por causa de sua personalidade forte, que fez com que não gostassem de outras pessoas. Também, o cenário político mudou drasticamente após do golpe brasileiro de 1964, o qual não permitia liberdade de expressão. De Jesus ainda escrevia poemas, contos, e memórias breves, nenhum sendo publicado. De verdade, seu obituário em uma edição de 1977 do Jornal do Brasil fala de Carolina se culpando por não poder aproveitar sua fama breve, também mencionando que sua teimosia fez com que morresse em pobreza. Mesmo assim, sua biografia e memórias fornecem

Her book was read extensively both in capitalist areas such as Western Europe and the United States, as well as in the Eastern Bloc and Cuba, the wide range of the audience demonstrating how many people were affected by her story outside of Brazil. For the liberal capitalist West, the book portrayed a cruel and corrupt system which had been reinforced by centuries of colonial ideals instilled in people. By contrast, for communist readers the stories depicted perfectly the fundamental flaws of capitalist production in which the worker is the most downtrodden part of the economic system.

Add links to favela and Quarto de Despejo in the children section, right now the words are just italicized

Sources

Levine, Robert M. The Cautionary Tale of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1994)