alice_cardoso's reviews
238 reviews

I was a little scared when I started to read this book, because I thought it was going to be like "The Lord of The Flies" - and I didn't have much of a good experience with that book.
"The Lord of The Flies" represents the possibility of savage behaviours in let-alone-kids. It shows that when we [human beings] are in critical situations, like wars or cases where there is no leaders or something like that, we become very wild and disrespectful.
"Sand Captains" - or "Capitães da Areia", in portuguese - is the portrait of the kids that run in the streets of Salvador da Bahia or any other city in Brazil. I have never been to Brazil, but I know it is just not paradisiacal landscapes and forests and all that. In Rio and São Paulo, for instance, I know that there are loads of favelas where kids live in poor accommodations, with very poor education and (some) with no money at all - some maybe don't even have that privilege [to have education]. This book also shows us that when we want - even if we have no money or conditions -, we can find opportunities out there to get better in life.

Well there are some things that definitely weren't written by JK Rowling, there are some parts that are probably and adaptation of her original story line. Thus, in the beginning it's slightly messy - the story - but then it gets very interesting and funny!

I was expecting something completely different from this book. I really don't know why in fact but somehow it got me really bored. I loved the first story because that was why I chose ti read this book but didn't like the other stories. They are a little dull, maybe because I was a long time without reading it and that made me lost track of the stories. I hope that in the future when I'll read it again it'll be less boring.