Text interpretation “My ideal would be to write – Rubem Braga”, for students in the fifth or sixth year of elementary school.
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My ideal would be to write a story so funny that the girl who is in that gray house when she reads my story in the newspaper would laugh, laugh so hard that she actually cried and said – "oh my God, what a funniest story!" And then she would tell the cook and call two or three friends to tell the story; and everyone to whom she told laughed a lot and were happily amazed to see her so happy. Ah, that my story was like a ray of sunshine, irresistibly blond, warm, alive, in her girlish life
recluse (that doesn't leave the house), bereaved (deeply sad), sick. That she herself would be amazed to hear her own laughter, and then repeat to herself - "but this story is really very funny!"That a couple who were at home in a bad mood, the husband quite annoyed with his wife, the wife quite irritated like her husband, may this couple also be affected by my story. The husband would read it and start laughing, which would increase the wife's irritation. But after the latter, despite her unwillingness, learned of the story, she also laughed a lot, and the two of them were laughing without being able to look at each other without laughing more; and that one, hearing that laughter of the other, remembered the joyful time of courtship, and the two rediscover the lost joy of being together.
That in jails, in hospitals, in every waiting room, my story arrived - and so fascinating for free, so irresistible, so colorful and so pure that everyone wiped their heart with tears of happiness; that the commissioner ((police authority) of the District (territorial division in which administrative, judicial, fiscal or police authority is exercised), after reading my story, ordered the release of those drunks and also those poor women gathered on the sidewalk and told them - "please, behave, that Devil! I don't like arresting anyone!" And that this way everyone would treat their employees, their dependents and their peers better in a joyful and spontaneous tribute to my story.
And that it would gradually spread around the world and be told in a thousand ways, and be attributed to a Persian (inhabitant of former Persia, present-day Iran), in Nigeria (country of Africa), to an Australian, in Dublin (Ireland's capital), to a Japanese, in Chicago – but that in all languages it kept its freshness, its purity, its surprising charm; and that deep in a village in China, a very poor, very wise and very old Chinese said: “I have never heard a story so funny and so good in all my life; it was worth having lived until today to hear it; this story could not have been invented by any man, it was surely some chattering angel who told it in the ear of a sleeping saint, and who he thought was already dead; yes, it must be a story from heaven that filtered (introduced itself slowly into) by chance until our knowledge; it is divine.”
And when everyone asked me - "but where did you get this story?" - I would answer that it is not mine, that I overheard it in the street, from a stranger who told it to another stranger, and who by the way had started to tell it like this: “Yesterday I heard a guy tell a story…”
And I would completely hide the humble truth: that I made up my entire story in one second, when I thought of sadness of that girl who is sick, who is always sick and is always in mourning and alone in that little gray house of mine district.
Rubem Braga
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) Who is the author?
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3) What reason led the author to want to write a funny story?
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4) What is the color of the girl's house. Explain the reason for this color.
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5) Why do the characteristics of the sunbeam oppose those of the girl? Name some opposite features.
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6) What do you think it means to pray “that all might cleanse their hearts with tears of joy”?
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7) What was the story invented by Rubem Braga to cheer and move people?
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8) What types of stories most sensitize people, funny or dramatic? Justify.
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9) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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10) What is the theme of the text?
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