id not bother with them. It was not only the people that did not live in the fevela that disliked the favelados. It was also the people that lived there. I can see that of all the people that live in the fevela not one of them likes the place.(83) Carolina wanted to live in another place, but also realized that everywhere in the world had its prejudice, not just in the fevela.When Carolina was a girl she only had the opportunity to go to school up until the second grade. She was not stupid though, and often read the newspapers and fliers hanging up in the city. Not only did she disagree with the discrimination in her town but she also knew about it in North America. North Americans are considered the most civilized. And they have not realized that discriminating against blacks is like trying too discriminate against the sun.(107) Right before she said this she was talking about a white woman buying food and said, Shes white. Shes allowed to spend more.(107) From this line you could guess that Carolina was a little jealous of the white race. One of the last lines in her journal says I hope that 1960 will be better than 1959. We suffered so much in 1959, that the people were singing, Go! Go for good! I dont want you any more. No, never more.(159) I could never imagine living in a place where I was singing for the year to go by.Although Victor Montejo the author of Testimony may not have been wishing for a year to fly by, hewished for a couple days of his life to fly by after being captured by an army detachment for doing nothing wrong. Victor was a teacher in the village of Tzalala, which is located in Guatemala. In July of 1982 the community was required to form civil patrols. Victor did not have to join the civil patrol because he was a teacher in the town and did not live there, but this did not help him out because he was still captured and was mistaken for a guerilla.On September 9, 1982, the civil patrol of Tzalala mist...
