Text Interpretation: Where Happiness Lives

Interpretation activity, aimed at seventh-year students, of the text where happiness lives. This is a book review Pauline, written by Maria Eugenia. The author of the text introduces us to Paulina, for whom childhood is not the happiest stage of life… Why is it? Are you curious? So, be sure to read the review, in which the author, in addition to commenting on the work, shares personal experiences regarding the subject of “happiness”! Then answer the interpretive questions!

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Text interpretation

Read:

where happiness lives

“They say that childhood is the happiest period in life. Not for Paulina.”

This is how the graceful and touching book begins. Pauline, written and illustrated by Maria Eugenia. I lost count of how many times I've heard that phrase: “Childhood is the happiest period of life”. And every time I listen to it, I remember well a day when I was a kid and I was really sad. I don't remember what made me sad, but I remember the feeling and the words that welled up in my thought and were told directly to the wall: “I don't know why they say childhood is the most happy life. Everyone thinks that children have no problem. When I grow up, I'll remember it well and not think that children don't suffer”. So it is. I remembered. And I remember every time I hear that same phrase. It was like a promise never to be unfair to a child.

So when I read the beginning of Pauline, I felt my heart beating fast. How nice for someone to have made a story like that. And you want to know? She wished Paulina had existed as a child. Because I would have discovered with the book where true happiness lives, something that I discovered only after many years.

In the book, Paulina was sad. Her mother was always mad. Her father left. She had to move into an apartment. And, as if it couldn't get worse, her puppy couldn't go with her. Paulina cried and cried and cried. She fell asleep crying. So, she found a place where all the good things are: inside herself. That's how he had beautiful dreams and woke up happy. From that day forward, he discovered how to always turn a bad day into a sunny day. Maria Eugenia, the children who once felt sad will thank you for this wise advice!

Aryane Cararo. Available in: .

Questions 

Question 1 - The text above is:

a) a news

b) a short story

c) a review

d) an opinion article

Question 2 - Who exposes this thought?

“They say that childhood is the happiest period in life. Not for Paulina”.

a) the narrator of the book “Paulina”.

b) the Pauline character.

c) the writer Maria Eugenia.

d) the author Aryane Cararo.

Question 3 - Identify the passage in which the author evaluates the book Pauline:

a) “This is how the gracious and touching book begins Pauline […]”

b) "Everyone thinks that children have no problem."

c) "In the book, Paulina was sad."

d) "From that day on, he discovered how to always turn a bad day into a sunny day."

Question 4 – Point out the fact that was constant in Paulina's life:

a) "Your mother was always angry."

b) "Her father left."

c) “She had to move into an apartment”.

d) "Paulina cried and cried and cried."

Question 5 - In the third paragraph of the text, the author seeks to convince the public to read the book “Paulina”, through:

a) of scientific data.

b) the report of personal experiences.

c) the book summary.

d) data about the writer.

Question 6 – The author dialogues directly with the writer of the book “Paulina” in the fragment:

Question 7 – It can be said that the author of the text above:

a) agrees with the thought that “childhood is the happiest period of life”.

b) partially agrees with the thought that “childhood is the happiest period of life”.

c) disagrees with the thought that “childhood is the happiest period of life”.

d) she is indifferent to the thought that “childhood is the happiest period of life”.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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