Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, about the birth of a great writer of our literature. According to the narrator, it all started when the new Portuguese teacher asked the students for a description with the theme “the sea”. Are we going to know the story of Jorge Amado's birth as a writer, told by himself? So, carefully read the text “A writer is born”! Afterwards, answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The first task given by the new Portuguese teacher was a description with the sea as a theme. The class inspired, all of it, in the choppy seas of Camões, those never sailed before, the Adamastor episode was rewritten by the kids. Prisoner in boarding school, I lived longing for the beaches of Pontal where I had known freedom and dreams. The sea of Ilheus was the subject of my description.
Padre Cabral had taken the duties to correct in his cell. In the next class, between smiling and solemn, he announced the existence of an authentic vocation as a writer in that classroom. He asked them to listen carefully to the homework he was going to read. She was sure, she said, the author of that page would in the future be a well-known writer. He didn't haggle over compliments. I had just turned eleven.
I became a personality, according to the canons of the college, alongside footballers, the champions of mathematics and religion, of those who obtained medals. I was admitted to a kind of Literary Circle where older students shone. Even so, I did not stop feeling a prisoner, a permanent sensation during the two years I studied at the Jesuit College.
There was, however, a noticeable change in the limited life of the boarding student: Father Cabral took me under his protection and placed books from his shelf in my hands. First “Gulliver's Travels”, then Portuguese classics, translations by English and French fiction writers. My passion for Charles Dickens dates from that time. It would take her yet to meet Mark Twain, the American was not among Father Cabral's favorites.
I fondly remember the figure of the erudite and amiable Portuguese Jesuit. Less for having announced me as a writer, above all for having given me the love of books, for having revealed to me the world of literary creation. It helped me to endure those two years of boarding school, to make my arrest, my first arrest, lighter.
Jorge Amado. “The boy Grapiúna”. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1987. p.117-120.
Question 1 - According to the text, the new Portuguese teacher asked the students for a description with the theme “the sea”. The narrator chose the sea of Ilheus. Explain this choice:
A:
Question 2 - According to the text, the teacher “did not haggle over compliments” on the narrator's vocation as a writer. What does “did not haggle over compliments” mean?
( ) It means “has not spared praise”.
( ) It means “did not invent compliments”.
( ) Means “did not select compliments”.
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] a permanent sensation during the two years I studied at the Jesuit College.”, what sensation does the narrator refer to?
A:
Question 4 - Identify the fact that, according to the narrator, changed his life considerably, marked by limitations in boarding school:
( ) “I became a personality, according to the canons of the college […]”
( ) "I was admitted to a kind of Literary Circle where older students shone."
() “[…] Cabral took me under his protection and placed books from his shelf in my hands.”
Question 5 - In the segment "First 'Gulliver's Travels' […]”, the underlined term expresses:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 6 – In “[…] Portuguese classics, translations by English and French fiction writers.”, the comma marks the enumeration of elements:
( ) opposites.
( ) alternated.
( ) correlated.
Question 7 – In the part “It would take me yet to meet Mark Twain […]”, occurs:
( ) the metaphor.
( ) synesthesia.
( ) metonymy.
Question 8 – The narrator explains the reasons why he remembers “with affection the figure of the erudite and amiable Portuguese Jesuit”. Point out the reason, which in his view, occupies a secondary position:
( ) “[…] for having announced me a writer […]”
( ) “[…] for having given me the love of books […]”
( ) “[…] for having revealed to me the world of literary creation.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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