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The twenties were strange and wonderful years in America. “The uncertainties of 1919 were over – America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history.” These are the words
Questões Interdisciplinares de Inglês
VUNESP · 2025
The twenties were strange and wonderful years in America. “The uncertainties of 1919 were over – America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history.” These are the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose best books form a kind of spiritual history of the “Lost Generation”. Many young people in the post-World War I had ‘lost’ their American ideals. At the same time America ‘lost’ many fine young writers – like e.e. cummings and Ernest Hemingway – because they had moved to Paris. Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), describes this new generation. They had “grown up to find all gods destroyed, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” They had their lives now filled with two concerns: “the fear of poverty and the worship of success”. From the beginning, Fitzgerald had a feeling that the twenties would find all dreams shattered.
Jay Gatsby, the hero of Fitzgerald’s famous novel “The Great Gatsby” (1925), has a belief in the absolute power and “natural goodness” of money. But Gatsby is also a true romantic. He has spent his whole life dreaming of his childhood sweetheart. He gives expensive parties at his home in the hope that she will come and fall in love with him again. Gatsby symbolizes the American belief that money can buy love and happiness. His failure makes him a rather tragic figure. See the description of him, after his guests have gone home:
“A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house... surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows, and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture offarewell.”
(Peter High. Outline of American Literature. Essex, Longman. 1996. p. 146-7. Adaptado)
An English teacher decides to use the excerpt at the end of the text and compare it to the content of the film “the Great Gatsby”, which all students have seen. Several students immediately say the word “wafer” is unknown to them. Interested in developing reading comprehension strategies in their classes, in the specific case of the word “wafer” the teacher tells students to
- skim the excerpt to understand the writer’s main ideas: that will be the best clue for their guessing of the word.
- check the dictionary for definitions of the word, and carefully choose the meaning that best fits the context.
- read the word out loud; the confrontation between oral and written forms of the word will lead to comprehension.
- check if the word is essential to comprehension of the excerpt; if it proves not to be, it can be ignored.
- go back to the movie and find the scene described in the excerpt; then, compare text and film.
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A alternativa indica que o aluno deve verificar se a palavra é essencial para compreender o trecho; se não for, pode ser ignorá‑la no momento. Essa é uma estratégia de leitura eficaz para manter o fluxo e priorizar o sentido global do texto.
Ao encontrar um vocábulo desconhecido, pergunte-se rapidamente: a compreensão da ideia principal depende dessa palavra? Se não, prossiga e marque a palavra para revisão posterior. Isso evita interrupções desnecessárias e favorece a fluência.
No exemplo "A wafer of a moon was shining", mesmo sem saber o sentido exato de wafer o leitor percebe que a lua é fina e cria atmosfera de solidão, preservando a interpretação da cena.
Caso a palavra seja crucial ou gere dúvida sobre fatos essenciais, aí sim consulte o dicionário ou o professor.
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