Text interpretation: The eagle that almost turned into a chicken

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The eagle that almost turned into a chicken

Once upon a time there was water that was created in a chicken coop. She grew up thinking she was chicken. She was a strange chicken (which made her suffer). How sad when she saw herself reflected in the mirrors of the water puddles – so different! The beak was too big, hooked, unsuitable for picking up corn, as all the others did. Her eyes had a fierce look, different from the frightened look of chickens, so in the taste of the rooster's love. And she was very big, athletic. Surely she suffered from some illness… And she wanted only one thing: to be a common chicken, like all the others. I made an enormous effort for that. She trained to scratch with her own swing. He walked half in a crouch, so as not to stand out because of his height. She took cackling lessons. And what she wanted most: for her poop to have the same familiar and cozy feel as the chicken poop. His was different, unmistakable. It so happened that one day a climber heading for the top of the mountains passed by. Climbers are people who would like to be eagles. Not being able to, they do what comes closest: they climb, hand and foot, to the heights, where they live and fly. And they stand there, looking down, imagining that it would be great if they were eagles and could fly. The climber saw the eagle in the chicken coop. And got scared.

– What are you, eagle, doing in the middle of the chicken coop? - he asked.
She thought she was being teased and got mad.
- Don't make fun of me. Eagle is grandma. I am a chicken in body and soul, although it doesn't look like it.
'Nothing chicken,' replied the climber. – You have an eagle's beak, an eagle's gaze, an eagle's tail, an eagle's poop… It's an eagle. She was supposed to be flying…” And she pointed to tiny black dots in the sky, far away, flying eagles, near the mountain peaks.
- God forbid. I have vertigo from heights. It makes me dizzy. The maximum, for me, is the second step of the perch - she replied.
So, end of conversation. She grabbed the eagle and stuffed it into a bag. And she continued her march up into the mountains. Once there, she chose the deepest abyss, opened the bag and shook the eagle into the void. She fell. Terrified, she flailed furiously, looking for something to cling to. But there was nothing. Only his wings were left… And that was when something new happened. From the depths of her chicken body, an eagle, long asleep and forgotten, she woke up, took hold of the wings and, suddenly, she flew...

Rubem Alves
Editions Loyola, São Paulo.

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?
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2) Why did the water grow thinking it was a chicken?
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3) Physically, how was the eagle different from the chickens?
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4) What did the climber do with the eagle after failing to convince it to fly?
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5) In her opinion, why did the eagle not want to be different from the chickens?
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Per Camila Farias.

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