Beginning and end are opposite points in space and time, a structure that contains all of reality. Childhood and old age bring the most human aspect of this polarity and are seen as extremes, opposites and complements in the cycle of existence. In this work, we look at the transposition of the oral narratives of elderly people into children's drawings produced in municipal schools in Rio de Janeiro. Based on stories from the childhood of the elderly collaborators, these drawings were studied in terms of creativity, narrative forms and the memory resources that made the representations of these stories possible. Our aim was to ascertain the influence of the time between listening and drawing, the interference of the teaching and learning process in the school space and the subject's relationship with the materials of this transposition, taking into account the culture, context and level of expertise of the subjects.