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School: CEM 76
3°1° and 3°2°
Professor: You eat, Pablo
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Activity story "The colors" by Juan Solá
The colors
Listen to me a little thing, baby, what do you have on your mind, can you tell me?
Mrs. Raquel had a frog face. A bad frog face, like those huge ones that
There in Colonia Benítez, they stand under the light poles in summer.
to eat the bugs.
I didn't want to go to the little room anymore, but what was I going to do.
- You gave birth four months ago, baby! Does your mom know that you are pregnant with
new?
It seems that Mrs. Raquel doesn't understand that, even though it hurts me so much to have
I need to go see her, I need her to help me. It seems that she forgets that there are times
that one hates what they need, like that kiss your mom gives you before letting you go
the hand so you can enter school, when you are too little for it
your lab coat is so worn out and the young lady puts you last in line so that
the director shouldn't see your canvas shoes, full of holes. I hated that.
last kiss, because it announced his absence, but I needed it to survive.
-You have to learn to say no, darling! You're fifteen years old. Do you know
Who is the father of this one, at least?
I stared at the tiles in the room, which were a bit white and a bit gray,
like chalk against the blackboard.
I draw what I want to be when I grow up, the young lady had written, that she
Her name was Alba and she smelled like nail polish remover.
When I opened the pencil case, I found a black pencil, a yellow pencil and
a green pencil and I thought that those three colors were not enough to show him/her.
the teacher what I wanted to be when I grew up. I asked Gabi if I
he lent me his pencils and told me that his mom wouldn't give him permission, so I had to
What to draw with the colors I had. It's very difficult to draw what you want to be.
if you don't have colors and nobody wants to lend you some.
How didn't you ask him to put on a condom? Don't you remember that you
Did I talk about condoms? Do you remember that I showed you how to put them on?
Mrs. Raquel was staring at me, with her eyebrows together and her mouth a straight line.
straight. I murmured that yes, I remembered.
-So? Why didn't you take care of yourself?
I didn't dare to tell him. I wanted to, but I didn't dare to explain that to Miguel.
I couldn't ask him for anything. I didn't know how to tell him that when Miguel comes, I have
What to stay silent and put my face down on a pillow, because he doesn't
he wants me to look at him. I wanted to explain to him that I would have liked things to be
different, but that my house was an empty pencil case and that at this point it no longer
I had no colors left to draw myself. Because in my house, it is ruled by
Miguel and Miguel knows nothing about colors because it is all black.
Do you think it's nice that your kids don't have a father?
They have a father, I thought, but I said nothing. What was I going to say, if in my house the...
Miguel and Miguel told me that if I say anything, he's going to leave my mom on the street.
What was I going to say if Mrs. Raquel didn't want to lend me the colors to
explain it to him/her.
Text extracted from the book Urban Epic.
Instructions:
1. Based on the reading of the following online article, complete the text that.
summarize who the author of the story is with the data you were able to extract from the
interview:
Unable to access external content including URLs.
The author is a writer born in... who currently...
lives in……………………He is considered a reference in the world………………He
characterized by being...........,...........,........... in what he/she writes.
His main books are:………………,………………………,…………………..,
………………..,…………………………..
2. Explain the relationship of the title with the different aspects of the story
The story is titled 'The Colors' as the protagonist seeks to explain through
the same problems that he/she experiences. These are:
………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………….
3. What type of narrator do we have? Mark the correct option:
a) Protagonist: the same character narrates the events they experience in the first person.
b) Witness: someone tells what they saw or heard in first and third person.
c) Omniscient: knows everything, does not participate in the events, narrates in the third person.
4. The protagonist of the story (mark the correct option)
She is a woman
a) He/She has a happy life b) Tiene una vida difícil c) Tiene una vida común
Suffers from an illness
5. What problem does the protagonist show in the three spaces that she has?
do they mention in the story? Complete:
a) At school:
b) In the neighborhood room:
c) At home:
6. What issues facing women in today's society appear in the story?
read? Recognize among the following:
Femicide - gender violence - abuse - labor discrimination -