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1- CAREFULLY READ THE TEXT BELOW AND THEN ANSWER.
Emilia, the Doll-Gente
OF A SEWING BOX
CLOTH, THREAD AND NEEDLE
A BRAVE GIRL WAS BORN
EMÍLIA, THE DOLL-GENT
IN THE FIRST MOMENTS OF LIFE
IT WAS ALL GANGLESS
STANDING STANDING COULD NOT FALL
I COULD NOT GET ANYTHING…
EMILIA, EMILIA, EMILIA
EMILIA, EMILIA, EMILIA
EMILIA, EMILIA, EMILIA
EMILIA, EMILIA, EMILIA
( ) DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LIFE.
( ) JOYFUL AND EXTROVERTED.
( ) SMART AND DARING
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The little Prince
[…]
“Good morning,” said the fox.
'Good morning,' replied the little prince politely, who turned but saw nothing.
“I'm here,” said the voice, “under the apple tree…
- Who are you? asked the little prince. – You're very pretty…
“I'm a fox,” said the fox.
- Come and play with me - proposed the little prince. - I am so sad…
“I can't play with you,” said the fox. – They haven't captivated me yet.
– Oh! sorry - said the little prince.
After reflection, she added:
– What does “captivate” mean?
“You're not from around here,” said the fox. - What are you searching for?
'I'm looking for men,' said the little prince. – What does “captivate” mean?
'Men,' said the fox, 'have rifles and hunt. It's very uncomfortable! They raise chickens too. It's the only interesting thing they do. Are you looking for chickens?
“No,” said the little prince. – I'm looking for friends. What does “captivate” mean?
“It's a very forgotten thing,” said the fox. – It means “to create bonds”…
– Create bonds?
“Exactly,” said the fox. – You are not yet to me but a boy entirely equal to a hundred thousand other boys. And I have no need of you. And you don't need me either.
In your eyes I am nothing but a fox equal to a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you captivate me, we will need each other. You will be for me the only one in the world. And I will be for you the only one in the world.
“I'm beginning to understand,” said the little prince. – There is a flower… I believe it captivated me.
“It's possible,” said the fox. – You see so much on Earth…
– Oh! it wasn't on Earth - said the little prince.
The fox looked puzzled:
– On another planet?
- Yea.
– Are there hunters on this planet?
-No.
- That's good! And chickens?
- Neither.
- Nothing is perfect - sighed the fox.
But the fox came back to her idea.
– My life is monotonous. I hunt the chickens and the men hunt me. All chickens look alike and all men look alike. And that's why I get a little upset. But if you captivate me, my life will be like full of sunshine. I will know a noise of footsteps that will be different from the others. The other steps make me go underground. Yours will call me out of the woodwork, as if it were music. And then look! Do you see, far away, the wheat fields? I don't eat bread. Wheat to me is useless. Wheat fields don't remind me of anything. And that's sad! But you have gold color hair. Then it will be wonderful when you have tamed me. The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I will love the noise of the wind in the wheat...
The fox was silent and considered the prince for a long time:
– Please… captivate me! - she said.
“I wish,” said the little prince, “but I don't have much time. I have friends to discover and many things to know.
- We only know the things that captivated - said the fox. – Men no longer have time to know anything. They buy everything ready-made in stores. But since there are no friend shops, men no longer have friends. If you want a friend, captivate me!
– What do I need to do? asked the little prince.
- You have to be patient - replied the fox. – You will first sit a little far from me, like this, on the grass. I'll look at you out of the corner of my eye and you won't say anything. Language is a source of misunderstandings. But, each day, you will sit closer…
The next day the little prince returned.
- It would have been better if you came back at the same time - said the fox.
– If you come, for example, at four in the afternoon, from three o'clock I will start to be happy.
The more the time comes, the more happy I will feel.
At four o'clock, then, I will be restless and agitated: I will discover the price of happiness! But if you come at any time, I'll never know when to prepare the heart… It takes rites.
– What is a rite? asked the little prince.
“It's a very forgotten thing too,” said the fox. – It's what makes a day different from other days; one hour, the other hours. My hunters, for example, have a rite. They dance on Thursdays with the village girls. Thursday is the wonderful day! I will walk to the vineyard. If the hunters danced any day, the days would all be the same, and I wouldn't have a vacation!
So the little prince captivated the fox. […]
SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antonie de. The little Prince. Translated by Dom Marcos Barbosa. 41. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Act, 1994
1. What are the characters in the story?
2. Is the storyteller also a character? How did you reach that conlucsion?
3. In the story of the little prince, the fox is a personified animal: he feels, thinks and speaks like a human being. Have you ever read any text whose characters were also personified? Tell your class.
4. How did the fox define friendship?
5. Reread the passage where the words “captivate” and “rite” appear.
The) Write in your notebook what these words mean in the text.
B) Look up the words in the dictionary and check your answer.
6. According to the fox, what does it take to captivate a friend?
7. The fox values silence in the first encounters between friends. And she justifies her point of view with the statement: "Language is a source of misunderstanding". What do you understand from this statement of the fox?
8. In another moment, the same character says: “I will discover the price of happiness”. We know that the word “price” in its proper sense means “value, cost of something that is sold”. In the context in which the fox's speech occurs, what is the meaning of the word “price”?
9. How did the prince react to the fox's explanations and teachings?
10. See how the fox concludes her explanation of what captivating is:
But the fox came back to her idea.
– My life is monotonous. I hunt the chickens and the men hunt me. All chickens look alike and all men look alike. And that's why I get a little upset. But if you captivate me, my life will be like full of sunshine. I will know a noise of footsteps that will be different from the others. The other steps make me go underground. Yours will call me out of the woodwork, as if it were music. And then look! Do you see, far away, the wheat fields? I don't eat bread. Wheat to me is useless. Wheat fields don't remind me of anything. And that's sad! But you have gold color hair. Then it will be wonderful when you have tamed me. The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I will love the noise of the wind in the wheat...
The) The fox explains to the little prince how their friendship will transform her point of view about everything around her. In her notebook, she builds a table (the blog configuration did not allow a table), observing the possible changes, in the fox's world, when being captivated by the little prince. Example:
The world of the fox before being captivated
* monotonous life
* Hearing footsteps, he enters underground
* Deems the wheat useless and sad
The world of the fox after being captivated by the prince
* ________________________________________
* ________________________________________
* ________________________________________
B) What did the fox mean by the expression “my life will be like full of sunshine”?
ç) When talking to the prince, the fox uses words and expressions such as: “sun”, “wheat”, “golden color” and “golden”. What do they have in common?
d) Compare the characteristic of wheat with those of the little prince. What relationship is there between them?
and) What would make wheat stop being useless to the fox?
f) The use of this comparison in the text has a poetic effect. Because?
11. Friendship, according to the fox, sharpens the sense organs (sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste) of those who are captive.
The) Which of these organs will be stimulated if she and the prince become friends?
B) Please transcribe the excerpts that confirm your previous answer.
12. What did you understand about the word “rite”? Why did the fox consider it important to have a rite?
13. What would you call this excerpt from Saint-Exupéry's book?
14. The fox says that "captivating is a very forgotten thing". Consider your relationships, your personal experience and answer: Do you agree with this statement? Because?
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