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The Ateneu has very strict rules imposed by its headmaster\u2014Aristarco\u2014which cause a general sense of riot amongst the students; homosexuality is common amongst most students, which is partially explained due to the presence of just one woman in the school\u2014the nurse and wife of Aristarco, Dona Ema\u2014and the lack of contact with the external world.Table of ContentsPlot introduction[edit]Plot summary[edit]Selected passages[edit]References[edit]Plot introduction[edit]The general concept of the novel is that of describing the leaving of one’s childhood dreams behind, and the consequences which come from growing up and having to face life. The main character, S\u00e9rgio, is commonly accepted as being an alter ego of Pompeia at a younger age.Plot summary[edit]S\u00e9rgio is left at the age of eleven on the doorsteps of the Ateneu by his father and enters the school for the first time. It immediately becomes clear the sexual references by the headmaster’s statement to S\u00e9rgio’s father in the beginning of the book: “You should see a coiffeur, and cut this blondy hair of yours. You know, the pretty boys in this school, don’t go along very well”. After, he is eventually approached by two older students\u2014Sanches and Bento Alves\u2014who try to engage into a homosexual relationship with him, but he does not accept the proposal. S\u00e9rgio then approaches a rebellious boy named Franco in order to avoid their company. Since Franco is constantly disciplined by the headmaster, S\u00e9rgio cuts his friendship with the boy, out of fear of facing the same fate. He then meets a boy named Egbert and becomes very close to him; their relationship does not develop beyond friendship mostly due to the sexual and emotional feelings S\u00e9rgio nourishes for the school’s nurse\u2014Dona Ema. Towards the end of the book, a student sets fire to the Ateneu, burning the whole structure down. The fire is a metaphor which represents the end of a chapter in S\u00e9rgio’s life, as he progresses towards maturity.Selected passages[edit]Portuguese: “Vais encontrar o mundo, disse-me meu pai, \u00e0 porta do Ateneu. Coragem para a luta! Bastante experimentei depois a verdade daquele aviso, que me despia, num gesto, das ilus\u00f5es de crian\u00e7a educada exoticamente na estufa de carinho que \u00e9 o regime do amor dom\u00e9stico, diferente do que se encontra fora, t\u00e3o diferente, que parece o poema dos cuidados maternos um artif\u00edcio sentimental, com a vanatagem \u00fanica de fazer mais sens\u00edvel a criatura \u00e0 impress\u00e3o rude do primeiro ensinamento, t\u00eampera busca da vitalidade na influ\u00eancia de um novo clima rigoroso.“English: “Thou shalt meet the world, told me my father, at the doorsteps of the Ateneu. Get courage for the fight! I later experienced the truth of that warning, which undressed me, in one gesture, of the illusions of a child educated exotically in the greenhouse of tenderness which is the regime of domestic love, different from what is found outside, so different, that it makes the poem of the maternal love seem to be a sentimental artifice, with the only advantage of making the creature more sensitive to the rude impression of the first teaching, burning search for vitality under the influence of a harsh new weather.”References[edit]Portuguese Wikisource has original text related to this article:"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/o-ateneu-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"O Ateneu – Wikipedia"}}]}]