Frankenstein em HQ na Escola Pública.

Abstract

Increasing government strategies to encourage reading in our country were not enough to awaken young people interest in classical literature. Classic books are here understood as an extension tool of world knowledge, emancipation and development of linguistic maturity. Among the strategies were adaptations of classic books into comics, currently accepted favorably by the institutions and society. Supported by Moraes. al. (2013), Rabbit (2000), Hutcheon (2013), Machado (2009) among others, this monographic research aims to discuss and qualitatively analyze the adaptation of the literary work "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley into comics, distributed by MEC to Brazilian public libraries, highlighting the relationships between image and verbal text in adaptations and the spread of comics in the universe of chidren’s literature aiming to see how adaptations of classic books are presented to the young reader.