questions d'anglais (2)

Publié le 27 avr. 2011 il y a 12A par Anonyme - Fin › 2 mai 2011 dans 12A
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Sujet du devoir

bonjour, j'ai des questions à faire sur le texte suivant :


A journey :


An old maori man who lives in the countryside is travelling on his own by train from his home to the city. He is lost in the in the contemplation of the landscape.
The two kids stood swaying as they entered the first tunnel, their eyes stood out watching for the tunnel’s mouth, waiting to pass out through the great mouth of the tunnel. And probably the whole of life was like that, sitting in the dark watching and waiting. Sometimes it happened and you came out into the light, but mostly it only happened in tunnels. Like now.
And between the tunnels they were slicing the hills away with big machines. Great-looking hills too and not an easy job cutting them away, it took pakeha determination to do that. Funny people these pakehas, had to chop up everything. Couldn’t talk to a hill or a tree these people. Couldn’t give the trees or the hills a name and make them special and leave them. Couldn't go round, only throught. Couldn't give life, only death. But people had to have houses, and ways of getting from one place to another.
And anyway who was right up there helping the pakeah to get rid of things – the Maori of course, riding those big machines. Swooping round and back, up and down all over the place. Great tools the Maori man had for his carving these days, tools for his new whakairo, but there you are, a man had to eat. People had to have houses, had to eat, had to get from here to there – anyone knew that. He wishes the two kids would stop crackling, their mothers dressed them in rubbish clothes, that's why they had colds.
Then the rain’ll come and the cuts will bleed for miles and the valleys will drown in blood, but the pakeha will find a way of mopping it all up no trouble. Could find a few bones amongst that lot too. That's what you get when you dig up the ground, bones.
Now the next tunnel, dark again.
And then coming out of the second tunnel that's when you really had to hold your breath , that's when you really had to hand it to the pakeha, because there was s sight. Buildings miles high, streets and steel and asphalt settled all around the great-looking curve that was the harbour. Water with ships on it, and roadways threading up and round the hills to layer on layer of houses, even in the highest and steepest places. He was filled with admiration. Filled with admiration, which was another word he enjoyed, even though it was not really a word for saying, but yes, he was filled right to the top -it made him tired taking it all in. The kids too, they'd stopped crackling and were quite still, their eyes full to exploding.

Patricia Grace



Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

mes questions sont :
a) explain the old Maori man's comments :
- "Funny people these Pakehas " (line 8).
- " He was filled with admiration. Filled with Admiration " (lines 37-38).

b) what conclusions can you draw about the traveller's state of mind ?



voilà , ce sont mes questions mais je n'arrive vraiment pas à y répondre ...
merci d'avance....



5 commentaires pour ce devoir


Anonyme
Posté le 27 avr. 2011
oui pourquoi , toi aussi ??
Anonyme
Posté le 27 avr. 2011
Le premier paragraphe du texte te lance pourtant bien sur les rails de la compréhension. Avant de dire que tu ne peux pas répondre, peux-tu dire ce que tu comprends déjà de l'histoire ?
Bonne lecture !
Anonyme
Posté le 27 avr. 2011
le texte oui j'ai compris normalement ; c'est un Maori qui est ds un train avec 2 enfants et leurs mères assis à coté de lui, ils contemplent le paysage. A maori is old. il est choqué de ce qu'il voit car ce n'est pas naturelle; il voit des tunnels, des collines, des buildings, rues, maisons, grandes places, arbres, .....
par ailleurs, les enfants sont crépitants. (crackling).



mais en faite, je ne sais pas quoi dire ds les questions car il demande d'expliquer ...
Anonyme
Posté le 1 mai 2011
ah ok, et tu es en 5 ème , c'est ça ??
Anonyme
Posté le 2 mai 2011
oki

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