Gavião vaqueiro: o bom ladrão da floresta de Assis Brasil: jornada e representação bíblica

Abstract

Children's literature presents the foundations that constitute society in a playful manner, involving children and young people, awakening ideas in a meaningful and light-hearted way, facilitating the assimilation and understanding of the social world. Working with this literary branch becomes challenging and intriguing, allowing for more studies within this field to be developed. Therefore, this work is bibliographic research, which uses the comparative method to highlight its general objective, which is to analyze the children's literature work Gavião Vaqueiro: O bom ladrão da floresta, by Assis Brasil, based on Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, in parallel with a comparative study of the protagonist with the biblical representation of Jesus Christ in the temptation of the desert. For the theoretical foundation, we used authors such as: Souza (1992), Cunha (2003), (Von Franz, 1981) among others. When analyzing the works, it becomes clear that Campbell's narrative scheme and the biblical episode highlighted above are related to the children's work created by the Piauí writer Assis Brasil.