Question

The crane wife

Reader, I almost married him. C J Hauser

Even now I hear the words as shameful: Thirsty. Needy. The worst things a woman can be. Some days I

still tell myself to takewhat is offered, because if it isn’t enough, it is I who wants too much. I am ashamed to be

writing about this instead of writing about the whooping cranes, or literal famines, or any of the truer needs of the

world. But what I want to tell you is that I left my fiancé when it was almost too late. And I tell people the

story of being cheated on because that story is simple. People know how it goes. But it’s harder to tell the

story of how I convinced myself I didn’t need what was necessary to survive. How I convinced myself it was my

lack of needs that made me worthy of love. After cocktail hour one night, in the cabin’s kitchen, I told Lindsay about how I’d blown up my life the

week before. I told her because I’d just received a voice mail saying I could get a partial refund for my high- necked wedding gown. The refund would be partial because they had already made the base of the dress but

had not done any of the beadwork yet. They said the pieces of the dress could still be unstitched and used for

something else. I had caught them just in time. I told Lindsay because she was beautiful and kind and patient and loved good things like birds and I

wondered what she would say back to me. What would every good person I knew say to me when I told them

that the wedding to which they’d RSVP’d was off and that the life I’d been building for three years was going

to be unstitched and repurposed?

Lindsay said it was brave not to do a thing just because everyone expected you to do it. Jeff was sitting outside in front of the cabin with Warren as Lindsay and I talked, tilting the sighting

scope so it pointed toward the moon. The screen door was open and I knew he’d heard me, but he never said

anything about my confession. What he did do was let me drive the boat. The next day it was just him and me and Lindsay on the water. We were cruising fast and loud. “You

drive, ” Jeff shouted over the motor. Lindsay grinned and nodded. I had never driven a boat before. “What do I

do? ” I shouted. Jeff shrugged. I took the wheel. We cruised past small islands, families of pink roseate

spoonbills, garbage tankers swarmed by seagulls, fields of grass and wolfberries, and I realized it was not that

remarkable for a person to understand what another person needed.
ACTIVITY 01

Em um dado trecho do conto, a autora dirige- se aos leitores para falar que quase.
a) Retire o trecho em que ela diz que sente

vergonha de estar escrevendo sobre isso em vez de

estar escrevendo sobre os pássaros que ela foi visitar, fomes literais ou qualquer outra necessidade do

mundo.
b) Por que você acha que a autora se sente

envergonhada de estar falando sobre o fim de seu

relacionamento?

ACTIVITY 02

A autora cita algumas qualidades sobre Linda

para justificar por que ela contou a ela sobre o fim

de seu relacionamento. Que qualidades são essas?

ACTIVITY 03

Em que o título do conto se relaciona com a

história narrada pela autora sobre o seu ex

relacionamento? O que se pode deduzir sobre isso?

ACTIVITY 04

O gesto de Jeff em entregar o volante do

barco para a autora pilotá-lo significou muito para

ela. O que ela percebeu com esse gesto? O que você

achasobre isso? (Último parágrafo)​

Answer 1

Resposta:

Activity 01

I am ashamed to be writing about this instead of

writing about the whooping cranes, or literal

famines, or any of the truer needs of the world.

Porque ela aceitou coisas e situações que ela acredita

que não deveria ter aceitado. Ela percebe o quanto

se deixou afetar e se envolver em um relacionamento

que a anulou em muitos sentidos. E a necessidade de

falar sobre isso demonstra o quanto ela estava

envolvida em algo que não a fazia feliz, mas que ela

achava que precisava.

Activity 02

Linda, gentil e paciente e porque ela amava coisas

boas como pássaros (5º parágrafo)

“(…) because she was beautiful and kind and patient

and loved good things like birds.”

Activity 03

Certamente, a autora se comparava à mulher pássaro

que lutava para tirar suas penas todas as noites para

que o homem que ela amava não percebesse que ela

era um pássaro e não uma mulher. A autora deve ter

se visto como uma mulher que lutava todos os dias

para não ser a mulher que sempre foi apenas para

agradar ao noivo.

Activity 04

Ela percebeu que não é tão notável, não é tão difícil

uma pessoa perceber o que uma outra precisa.

Explicação:

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