This paper aims to develop a comparative analysis between the work 'Negrinha' by Monteiro Lobato and 'The light is like water' by Gabriel García Márquez. To do so, it was analyzed how the child fantasizes, dreams and imagines, when his right to play and deceive are usurped. In both tales we can see that the condition of being a child is taken. In the story 'Negrinha', the little orphan is enslaved, ill-treated, subjected to physical and psychological violence. In the story 'Light is like water', children are isolated from the world, in the fifth floor apartment, number 47. By their stories, children are considered using imaginary to cherish their frustrations and anguish with everyday life.