Activity of text interpretation, addressed to seventh-year students, about the haunted house. The author goes back to his childhood to narrate the story of a house that was reputed to be haunted… It was at the end of a street without exit, he didn't even have a name… No child dared to go there… Until one day, he ended up coming across this house… How was it that? Are you curious to know the continuity of this story? So, be sure to read the text and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
He lived in a weird house at the end of a street that leads nowhere. The house was reputed to be haunted and the street didn't even have a name. It was said that there had been a coffee plantation there whose slaves had killed all the masters of the plantation house and then they had killed themselves – before they were killed by law enforcement.
Legend or reality, the fact is that no boy dared to pass that way. In my deepest childhood, all my nightmares had a single, cheap location: that was where the ghosts of the night they waited to do theirs without letting me do mine, which boiled down to running away – impossible escape in the clutches of the dream.
Until one day, coming from a catechism class, I decided to take a shortcut and took a shortcut I didn't know. I wanted to go back but curiosity to see the world took me forward. Suddenly, with dread in his chest and trembling in his legs, he was standing in front of the haunted house.
If you look at it, it was a house just like the others, it had mango trees beside it and a girl with bangs at the only open window. She looked amazed to see someone get there.
I stood still, a little out of fear, a little out of enchantment. Despite her bangs, the girl was as pretty as the little angels in the church of Nossa Senhora da Guia.
He asked if I wanted anything. No, I wanted nothing even though I wanted everything – just like today, so many years later.
He wanted to know my name, where I lived, what I was doing there. I responded with honesty, the same honesty with which I would later respond to income tax forms: the possible truth.
After the interrogation came the unexpected invitation: "Want to be my boyfriend?" Said yes. I promised to return the next day, even though I knew I would never set foot on that haunted ground again.
I believe it was there, too, that I turned the wrong corner in life. They never asked me the same thing again. I suspect I should have come back.
Carlos Hector Cony. “Chronicles to Read at School”. Rio de Janeiro: Objective, 2009. p.71-2.
Question 1 - The text above is:
( ) a tale about “The Haunted House”.
( ) a chronicle about “The Haunted House”.
( ) a report on “The Haunted House”.
Question 2 - According to the narrator, the house was considered haunted because:
( ) was located on an unnamed street.
( ) was located at the end of an isolated street.
( ) there had been a farm there where slaves killed their masters and then killed themselves.
Question 3 – It creates an atmosphere of suspense in the passage:
( ) “[…] it was right there that the ghosts of the night were waiting for me to do theirs […]”
( ) “Suddenly, with dread in my chest and trembling in my legs, I was in front of the house […]”
( ) "He asked if I wanted anything."
Question 4 – Point out the segment in which the narrator presents an opinion:
( ) "I was stopped, a little out of fear, a little out of the enchantment."
( ) “No, I didn't want anything even though I wanted everything […]”
( ) "I believe it was there, too, that I turned the wrong corner in life."
Question 5 - In “I answered honestly […]”, the underlined expression indicates:
( ) the place where the narrator responded to the girl.
( ) the way the narrator responded to the girl.
( ) the time with which the narrator responded to the girl.
Question 6 – In the excerpt “They never asked me the same thing again.”, what does the narrator refer to?
Question 7 – In the part “Looking well, it was a house like the others […]”, the narrator:
( ) makes a criticism.
( ) raises a hypothesis.
( ) establishes a comparison.
Question 8 – It can be said that the end of the story:
( ) breaks the reader's expectations.
( ) is incomprehensible to the reader.
( ) is within what the reader expected.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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