Text interpretation activity for fifth or sixth year students, using the text “The case of the mirror”.
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He was a man who knew next to nothing. He lived far away, in a small thatched house, forgotten in the back of the forest.
One day, needing to go into town, he passed in front of a store and saw a mirror hanging outside. The man opened his mouth, squinted, then shouted, mirror in hand:
- But what is the portrait of my father doing here?
– That's a mirror! - explained the store owner
– I don't know if it's a mirror or if it's not, it's just my father's portrait. - The man's eyes got wet.
– Did you… know my father? he asked the merchant,
The shop owner smiled, it was just an ordinary mirror, those with a glass and wooden frame.
– É?! No! - replied the other
– This is my father's portrait, yes it is! Look at the forehead, and the hair? Is it the nose? And that awkward smile?
The man wanted to know the price, the merchant shrugged his shoulders and sold the mirror, cheaply.
That day, the man who knew next to nothing came into the house all happy, he put it away carefully, the mirror wrapped in the dresser drawer. The woman just watched the other day, waited for her husband to go to work and ran to the bedroom opening the dresser drawer, he unwrapped the mirror, looked and stepped back, made a sign of the cross, covering his mouth with his hands, then put the mirror in the drawer and came out crying.
- Oh my God! - she screamed, bewildered
– It's another woman's portrait! My husband doesn't like me anymore! The other one is too beautiful! What a beautiful eyes! What a loose hair! What a soft skin! The devil is a thousand times prettier and younger than me!
When the man returned, at the end of the day, he found the house all in disarray, the woman, crying on the floor, hadn't even cooked the food.
– What was that, woman?
– There's your one-handed traitor! Who is that jararaca there in the portrait?
– What portrait? - Asked her husband, surprised.
– The one you hid in the dresser drawer!
The man was not understanding anything.
– But that's my father's portrait!
Indignant, the woman put her hands on her chest:
– Shameless, miserable dog! Do you think I don't know the difference between a lazy old man and a nasty, hideous jabiraca?
The discussion boiled like water in a kettle:
– Old lazar thing nothing! shouted the offended man.
The girl's mother lived nearby, heard the shouting and came to see what was happening, found her daughter crying like a lost child and can't go back home.
- What is this girl?
– That bastard got another one!
She went crazy, yelled the man, frowning:
– Yesterday I saw him hiding a package in the drawer, in the bedroom, mother! Today, after he left, I went to see what it was, ok La! It's another woman's portrait!
The good lady decided to check the portrait herself, entering the room, opened the drawer, unwrapped the package and peeked, opened her eyes wide, looked again, let out a hearty laugh
– Only if it's his great-grandmother's portrait! This so-and-so is the most wrinkled, ugly, old, cackling, withered, ruined, clumsy, limp, bald, decrepit thing – he completed happily, hugging his daughter:
– Don't worry, the bitch in the portrait is already with both feet in the grave.
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) What are the characters in the story?
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3) What was the man's reaction when he saw the mirror hanging outside the store?
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4) why the man was scared?
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5) What did the man ask the merchant?
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6) What made the man believe he was seeing his father's portrait?
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7) what did the woman see when she looked at the package that was in the drawer?
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8) Why was the woman angry when she saw the package that her husband had kept in the drawer?
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9) what did the mother-in-law see when looking at the package?
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10) In your opinion, why did each person see a different image? Justify your answer.
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