Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the eighth or ninth year of elementary school, with questions based on the article “Young people and violence: victims or villains? by Marcelo Andriotti.
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Every day we see the statistics of young people involved in situations of violence growing in our cities. Base the judgment on violence committed by young people on what is currently taking place in Rio de Janeiro – and in many other cities in the Brazil - is, at the very least, simplistic on our part and ends up exempting everyone from a really effective action to change our reality.
"With justice and equality happening, we can try to find out who is a villain and who is a victim"
Young people are indeed victims, as for decades the State has deprived most of the population of access to health, education, culture, basic sanitation and other items fundamental to the formation of a citizen of excellence. Notions of values such as respect, politeness, cordiality, among others, have long been forgotten or neglected. Cities were segmented into those who have and those who do not have the right to items that are essential for full and healthy development. They were divided between those who could do anything and those who could do nothing. All the best was in one part of town and the rest got what was left. Whoever had everything forgot that the other part of the population was growing and, even without quality education, began to have notions of what was happening in the rest of the world thanks to globalization and the spread of information. They started wanting these things too. And if they couldn't have them in the traditional ways, they would do it some other way. They would give a “way”, even the wrong one. While some based their being on what they had, others did it through power, through brute force.
We can think that they are also villains if we remember that even with so much information, scholarships, free places, courses, a young person chooses to stay on the streets assaulting, stealing and killing. If there are so many examples of winning people who were born and raised in a reality of daily violence, choose between the illusion of Being able to lead a group in your community through violence or to grow in life through effort and work seems like a simple decision.
And for those who were born with security, they had a reasonable formal education and a solid psychological and family structure. However, for those who grew up and live in total insecurity, in places where they sleep and wake up to the sound of gunshots, they study – this when the teacher manages to get to school – many often bent down or lying on the ground to protect himself from stray bullets, he has to wait hours to get access to medical treatment and is humiliated by attendants, security guards and nurses, at the limit of their human conditions because of stress, among other various issues, it is difficult to make the most correct decision and the choices made are not always the best.
Today we have several grants for youth assistance. In each community there are dozens of social projects that promise to change people's lives. A false idea is being sold that those who live in a favela are entitled to things that the middle class does not have.
Of course, there are dozens of opportunities for any individual, wherever they are. However, not everyone grew up in an environment that showed the value of this. Many grew up hearing promises and experiencing activities that started and never ended, they got used to courses and classes given in any way, without arousing the real interest of the students.
When we learn to treat everyone the same, we will have a fairer and more egalitarian society. With justice and equality happening there, yes, we can try to find out who is a villain and who is a victim.
Marcelo Andriotti
www.gazetadopovo.com.br
After reading the text, answer:
1) According to the text, every day we see an increase in our cities' statistics of young people involved in situations of violence. Why do you think this happens?
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2) Marcelo Andriotti presents two points of view regarding young people being victims or villains. Explain in your own words the arguments used by him to justify why young people are victims.
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3) Explain the arguments that Marcelo Andriotti uses to support your thesis that young people are also villains in relation to acts of violence that have taken place in our country?
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4) Which viewpoint do you agree with? What claims young people are villains or what claims they are victims? Because?
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5) What is the tip that Marcelo Andriotti gives so that we can find out who is a villain or victim in relation to acts of violence that have taken place by young people in our country?
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6) Do you think the sun can rise for everyone, that is, good opportunities arise for everyone or just for people who were born into a financially structured life? Explain.
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7) Do you think that life is made of choices or when we were born God has already set a destiny for each one of us? Comment.
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8) Is man corrupted by society, for example: if I was born among corrupt people, envious, spiteful, bitter, pretending, thieves, will I learn to be like them or not? Comment.
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9) What is violence for you? Explain.
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10) Have you ever witnessed, lived or committed an act of violence? Tell us how it went.
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11) This text is an opinion piece. What is your opinion about young people getting involved in acts of violence, which often end up killing innocent people?
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12) Do you think it is correct for boys or girls aged 12 to 18 to carry revolvers or bladed weapons? Comment.
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13) Who is the problem with so much violence in our country? In society or in government? Comment.
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By Rosiane Fernandes Silva – Graduated in Letters
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