(UNICAMP - 2008 - 2 fase - Questão 4)
O texto abaixo foi adaptado a partir de uma passagem do artigo “Billie Holiday”, de Charles E. Smith. Leia-o e responda às questões
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough) was born in Baltimore, April 7, 1915, of teen-age parents who married three years later. When she says she was a woman at six she may have been thinking of other things than physical development. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was a musician who played the guitar with the McKinney’s Cotton Pickers group (he’d formerly played trumpet) and who was almost always on the road. He and Billie’s mother had separated when Billie was little more than a baby, so that she was, in effect, a fatherless child. And even her mother left her with relatives, to go up North in search of work. It wasn’t merely that Billie had traumatic experiences – life slaps all of us around – but it slapped her viciously, when she was very young and didn’t know what it was all about.
(Shapiro, N. e Hentoff, N. (orgs.), The Jazz Makers. New York: Grove, 1956.)
a) O que a mãe de Billie Holiday foi fazer no norte do país? Nessa ocasião, o que ela fez com a filha?
b) Segundo o autor, a vida é cruel com todos nós, mas ela foi particularmente cruel com Billie Holiday. Por quê?
Gabarito:
Resolução:
a) Segundo o texto, a mãe de Billie Holiday foi para o norte do país procurar emprego, deixando a filha sob o cuidado de parentes.
b) Segundo o autor, a vida foi particularmente cruel com Billie Holiday pois, quando os pais se separaram e deixaram a filha para trás, ela ainda era muito nova e não sabia por quê isso tudo estava acontecendo.