Text Interpretation: The Right Person

Text interpretation activity for ninth grade students. É a very relaxed chronicle about the idealization we built to find The right person for a relationship. Teacher, even you will enjoy reading the text with your students! 😉 😉 😉

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Martha Medeiros: The right person

Some sentences spread without us knowing who the real author is. This is the case of While the right man doesn't come along, I'm having fun with the wrong ones, which I heard for the first time on a Marília Gabriela program or did I read it on a t-shirt? That the phrase is witty, there is no question, but it is a trap: believing that there is the right person is the reason for our relationship problems. Why do we insist on believing in legends?

This abstract entity - the right person - is the one who will understand all your quirks, will guess when you want to be silent, will have the body and face that you idealized in your romantic delusions and your mother - yours, not hers - will approve your choice as soon as you open the door to the living room. visit. It will only take a traced with the eye and soon she will wink at you as if to say: now yes.
Now what? Now you think you've found someone you won't ever fight and who will fit in perfectly with your ambitious search for the right person, the one (attention, spoiler) that doesn't exist.
The right person for you is the wrong one. Remember the wrong person?
He lived in the outback of Judas. Laugh out loud. I didn't really understand the movies you liked, but I made delightful comments about them. I was much older than you. Or much younger than you. He didn't stop at any job and his ex collection was worrisome. I miss the wrong person.
He never got a single gift right ─ but he remembered all the dates. After an hour and a half on the phone, I wanted to talk a little more and was sad if you suggested they hang up. How you loved the wrong person.
I didn't know any of his friends. Nor you hers. I smoked too much. Or drank too much. Or both. But he has never been through the police. The craving for astrological predictions was a bit exaggerated, and it was time to learn how to clean up the mess that was her apartment, but she never failed to get out of the scented bath. And wetting the bedroom floor, of course. It was the most welcome mistake for that off-season moment of yours, wasn't it?
Until the right person came along. The whole family celebrated and the friends breathed a sigh of relief: now yes, you had someone your height, now yes, you would no longer have to go through the ups and downs, now yes, no more a shack, no surprises. Now yes, a standard couple.
I can almost see you, a few months from now, wearing a T-shirt that says, "As long as the wrong person doesn't come along, I'll get bored with the right ones."

(Adapted from http://revistadonna.clicrbs.com.br/coluna/martha-medeiros-pessoa-certa/)

Answer

1) The author of the text Martha Medeiros believes that:
a) there is always the right person with no faults to start a relationship.
b) there is a right person for every person.
c) it is possible to date someone without fighting.
d) the right person is just an idealization.
e) the wrong person will never fight you.

2) The author writes about the person who is supposedly mentally conceived by the imagination, and another person who actually exists in real life at another point in the text. Mark the excerpts that represent the right person according to the author:
I – Why do we insist on believing in legends? (line 5)
II – This abstract entity – the right person – is the one who will understand all your quirks (...) (line 6-7)
III – He didn't stop at any job and his ex collection was worrying (...) (line 17-18)
a) I, II and III
b) I and II.
c) I and III.
d) II.
e) III.

3) When the author writes that "The right person for you is the wrong one", it means, in the present context, that:
a) we get involved with people different from those we imagine.
b) the right person will appear in your life at any time.
c) the wrong person has more faults than you.
d) all dating doesn't start well.
e) we must get involved with imperfect people like ourselves.

4) From the reading of the last paragraph of the text, it can be concluded that:
a) the phrase on the shirt encourages you to be with the right person.
b) dating the right people make us happy.
c) dating the wrong people bores us.
d) the person wearing the shirt is dating the wrong person.
e) the T-shirt phrase encourages the person to be with the wrong person.

By André Tarragô Martins – Middle and Middle School Teacher of Portuguese Language and Master in Letters in the area of ​​Language, Interaction and Learning Processes. In addition, he is a musician and journalist. He works in pre-university entrance exams, pre-contests, private lessons, preparation of competition tests and is content creator for the Portal www.acessaber.com.br.

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