Text Interpretation: Magic Lantern

Activity of interpretation, recommended to seventh-year students, from the text magic lantern. In it, authorIvan Angelo narrates the emotion he felt when he met a battery-powered flashlight as a child! To do so, he takes as a starting point a report he watched on television, in which a poor boy is extremely happy when rummaging through the gifts for Children's Day! This is an exciting text and one that makes us think a lot too! So, read it and then be sure to answer the interpretive questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

magic lantern

I saw on television a poor little boy from a day care center howling with joy as he rummaged through a crate of Children's Day gifts. It was small plastic junk and colorful, empty egg cartons. The very little was a reason for unrestrained and noisy joy. Deprivation is the measure of one's desire in life.

There was a time when gift opportunities were limited to two: birthday and Christmas. Today, in the middle class, the gift is a monthly event; in some families, weekly. Every trip to a mall results in a small pleasure. You don't want more with that desire, because you know something will come. The desire of boys, from the middle class and up, is fuzzy, vague, incapable of eliciting howls of joy when satisfied.

I've already lived through my deprivations. I could never have a bicycle, for example, or a soccer ball, or a corkscrew. We had, my older brothers and I, simulacra: small fuse revolver, rubber ball, community tricycle. Rubber balls, it is known, do not make stars. Tricycles do not allow for bold recklessness. Maybe that's why, without skill, I have been a wooden leg and a shy one. Who knows. (…)

However, what became for me something closer to a marvel was a battery-powered flashlight. I had never seen one, except in movies and comic books. I don't know, maybe I thought that object was science fiction, not reality. When I saw one, manipulated by my older cousin, now a man, Zezé, in the same house as my grandfather, it was a wonder. It glowed, nickel-plated, it was one of those four-batteries. Letting me take it in my hands, and turn it on, and direct the light wherever I wanted was magical. From that moment on, nothing surpassed, in my seven years, the beauty of that beam of light. Is the power (…).

Angelo, Ivan. “The Adventure Buyer”. São Paulo: Attica, 2003.

Questions

Question 1 - The text above is:

a) a short story

b) a chronicle

c) a report

d) an opinion article

Question 2 - Identify the fact that motivated the story above:

A.

Question 3 - Reread the first paragraph of the text carefully. Then, mark the passage where the author presents an opinion:

a) “I saw on television a poor little boy from a day care center howling with joy […]”

b) "It was small plastic junk and colorful, empty egg cartons."

c) "The very little was a reason for unrestrained and noisy joy."

d) "Deprivation is the measure of each person's desire in life."

question 4 – In the second paragraph, the author compares past tense with present tense. Point out the fact that, according to him, makes up the past:

a) “[…] the gift opportunities were limited to two: birthday and Christmas.”

b) “[…] the present is a monthly event; in some families, weekly.”

c) "Each visit to a mall results in a small pleasure."

d) “The desire of boys, from the middle class up, is imprecise […]”

Question 5 - “I've already lived my deprivations”. What does the author of the text refer to?

A.

Question 6 – In the phrase “I had never seen one, except in the movies and in comic books.”, the term “one” resumes:

The bicycle"

b) "stopper shotgun"

c) "rubber ball"

d) "battery flashlight"

Question 7 – In the last paragraph of the text, the author narrates his feelings when he met a battery-powered flashlight, which he called a “magic flashlight”. Identify the expression he used to refer to the moment when he actually handled the flashlight:

a) “a wonder”

b) "science fiction thing"

c) "a wonder"

d) "magic"

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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