A Bolsa Amarela

2 ideas

1. Raquel's swelling wishes in the bag

   Raquel, the much-younger last child of a family that dismisses her, secretly holds three wishes: to grow up, to be a boy, and to be a writer. The more she represses them, the bigger and heavier they swell inside the yellow bag she carries, until they are almost impossible to hide. By the end, the wishes to be grown and to be a boy fly away like kites once she stops needing them, and only the wish to write, which is truly hers, stays.

2. The sewn-shut mind of conditioning

   The fighting rooster Terrível has had his thinking literally stitched closed so that he can only think about fighting and winning. The image shows how training people for a single function works. It is not only that other options are forbidden. The capacity to imagine them is removed, so the person defends the very role that confines them.

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