2025-07-042025-07-042023-09-04https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/1024The present work was based on experience through the extension project, entitled “Graciliano Ramos for the social formation of readers”, developed in public schools in the municipality of União dos Palmares/AL, in 2018 and 2019 (in high school) , 2021 (in Elementary Education), with the support of the Dean of Extension (PROEX), by graduate student Maria Andreia da Silva as a scholarship holder in the extension project in the degree course in Literature – Portuguese at IFAL – Polo de São José da Laje from UAB – Open University of Brazil. The objective is to develop the value of reading as an enriching act for social emancipation and promotion of citizenship of individuals through critical and reflective reading, being able to give their own opinion on what was read/absorbed from the children's short story “The land of boys naked” (1939) by Graciliano Ramos. In this way, the project applied two types of questionnaires answered by students, achieving quantitative and qualitative results achieved during its development. Since, presenting the Gracilian way of working with fantasy and acceptance of the different in which the writer creates anthropomorphized characters as a way of answering the question that guides the book “What is it to be different?”. As a result, it is hoped that the reader can better understand their universe, thus breaking the barriers of prejudice and social exclusion that are so pertinent to the northeastern region.ptBarreiras de preconceito e exclusão socialCríticaFormação socialLeituraGraciliano RamosBarriers of prejudice and social exclusionCriticismSocial TrainingReadingTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoLINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES