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Part B: Dramatic Discussion Biu Thank goodness is carnival time again, and the best part is that this year I’m going to wear a really nice red dress. My belly is not bothering me and my kids are big enough to take care off themselves, they probably will be playing all night on the street along with the other kids of the â€Å"el barrio†. My oldest daughter probably will stay with her boyfriend. Felix I got to work this week, so I’m gona have a wonderful time this carnival weekend, I’ll get drunk and party with my friends, this will be my best carnival ever. Dona Felipa I don’t understand you people. You barely can sustain yourself and when ever you got work at the sugar cane you always spend all your money available. Why don’t you take care of your wife and the son to be born soon. You Biu, I understand that carnival time is very important for us, but I don’t want you to be sick and unable to work for me later on. Felix I respect your point of view Dona Felipa, but even though we are poor, we still have the right to have fun. Carnival week is for everybody here in Brazil, if we can’t have fun on only this sacred week, where else and what else can we do to entertain ourselves. Biu Felix should take care of his family I have a son in my belly from us, from Felix, but I agree that carnival time is for party and is for everybody to enjoy. We are so poor and miserable that carnival is the only thing no body can take away from us. We live in misery, we don’t have nor running water nor clean water, we even don’t eat regularly, but carnival time is a brief moment for us to escape our reality, our miserable reality, if we cant have that little thing, we might kill ourselves as well. Felix Some day, I’ll be rich enough to be able to enjoy carnival where the rich people go. I’ll mingle with the government and high society people of the Alto. Someday my woman will never have to work again. Someday my woman will never have to wash clothes for others never again. Dona Felipa I think Felix, that you are a good man, and you want the best for yourself and for your family. But I think you are a fool by thinking in that way.