Gabriela Clove And Cinnamon Chapter Summary

Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon, by the author Jorge Amado, dates back to an early 20th century Brazil, in the city of Ilheus. Here, we are presented with two main characters, Mundinho Falcao and Nacib. Mundinho Falcao is a young man from Rio de Janeiro, who moved to Ilheus and enriched through exporting of materials. He had as a goal to accelerate the development of the city, ameliorate the ports and overthrow Bastos, the current ruler back then. Nacib was a Syrian man, owner of a local bar, who later in the story, falls in love with Gabriela, whom he first hired to help him as a cook.
Starting with the colonization of the Portuguese, we see that Brazil undergoes several economic cycles throughout the passing years. With time, new products come to emergence and, with it, the exercise of trade of raw materials takes place, having it as one of the main supporters of the economy at the time. Therefore, there would eventually be a decline on both demand and prices, which consequently lead to crises in the economy. Long after the trades of captaincies, slavery, and sugar cane, Brazil became also a huge exporter of coffee and cacao, two products that turn out to possess great value to the country, and having its production and growth take place in the previously mentioned city of Ilheus. So, with the appearance of new “natural resources”, the …show more content…
A sense of prosperity, of success, of growth came upon the town, bringing immeasurable satisfaction. Dr. Ezequiel Prado mentions that Ilheans had a strong sense of identity with Ilheus, which was one of the main reasons that allowed for progress to take place. To reinforce his view, he would say that the rich men from the town, who gained from those lands, should have part of their earnings invested back into the city, thus creating this social notion of what was necessary for the continuation of such