Varities of Violence

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The books Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus and Testimony by Victor Montejo describes the lives of two individuals from different societies. In both of these societies there was much hardship and violence. The two main characters who wrote these books describe life through their point of view and explains the hardship and challenges they had living in a society filled with violence.

Victor Montejo lived in a society that was a very poor area. The village was located in Guatemala. Though he lived outside of this village it is where he spent most of his time since he was the schoolmaster. The people in village were very poor and believed in community as a way of life. The villagers were out to help everyone not just themselves. The children of the village would rarely go to school beyond sixth grade. They would do this for two reasons, the jobs they would be doing really wouldn't need more education beyond sixth grade and because by this point in there lives it would be more beneficial for them to help their families work on the coastal plantations. The people of the village who weren't in school or working on the plantations would more likely then not be part of the civil patrol in operation in Tzalala. The civil patrols job was mainly to guard the village from bands of guerillas who from time to time would come and attempt to attack the village. Then there was Victor himself who was the schoolmaster. He taught the children the basics but as stated before would be very lucky if he got to teach any children beyond the sixth grade. Beyond being the schoolmaster he also seems to be the person who spoke for the villagers when their village was in trouble.

From what is read in the testimony of Victor outside of the v...

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...h in a society where there was always a constant worry of war with Guerillas and in some cases wars with the government to. Beyond that there was always a growing fear that if he new to much information they may take him and kill him just for that one reason. Carolina on the other hand grew up in a society were there was much more social violence and a almost complete stoppage of any improvement in life. The government had it that once you were in a slum you could not move up and out of one. Also since the people were out for themselves there they would emotionally abuse Carolinas children

Victor and Carolina in many was had to deal with the same type of problems in society but only in different ways. The society they were both in challenged them both in many ways, yet they both seemed to find a way to succeed in a world that had many uphill battles against them.

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