The Captive
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The Captive
In Junín or in Tapalqué, they refer to the story. A boy disappeared after a
malón; it was said that the Indians had stolen him. His parents searched for him in vain; at
At the end of the years, a soldier who came from the interior spoke to them about an Indian with eyes
Celestial beings who could well be his son. They finally found him (the chronicle has lost the
circumstances and I don't want to invent what I don't know) and they thought they recognized him. The man,
working for the desert and for life Bárbaraya did not know how to hear the words of the
native tongue, but he let himself be led, indifferent and docile, to the house. There he stopped,
maybe because the others stopped. He looked at the door, as if not understanding it. Suddenly
he lowered his head, shouted, ran through the corridor and the two long courtyards and went inside
in the kitchen. Without hesitation, he plunged his arm into the blackened hood and pulled out the
little knife with a handle that I had hidden there when I was a kid. His eyes
They shone with joy and the parents cried because they had found their son.
2-Perhaps this memory was followed by others, but the Indian could not live between walls and a
He went to search for his desert that day. I would like to know what he felt at that moment of vertigo.
in which the past and the present merged; I would like to know if the lost son
was born and died in that ecstasy or if he managed to recognize, even as a creature
or a dog, the parents and the house.
Jorge Luis Borges: The Maker, Madrid. Alianza, 1980.
Instruction:
In questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 there are four answer alternatives, in each one (A, B, C, D, and E).
Circle the letter of the correct alternative.
The previous story corresponds to a text:
A) Poetic
B) Argumentative
C) Advertiser
D) Literary
The theme of the previous text is:
The lost child.
B) The love of parents.
C) A sudden memory.
D) Adaptation to the civilized world.
The text states that the young man:
He was a untamed Indian.
He remembered the love for his parents.
C) I did not understand their mother tongue.
It was cared for with love.
The narrator states:
A) Pain for the events that occurred.
B) Question regarding the history in Junín or in Tapalqué.
C) Joy at the reunion of the child and his parents.
D) Concern about the situation.
5) From the reading of the first paragraph of the text, it is inferred that:
A soldier identified the stolen child among the indigenous people.
B) The boy's aggression was a product of his life among the natives.
C) The narrator recounts a story known through the Aboriginal people.
The kidnapped boy did not want to return home.
6) Read again 'The Captive' and create an imaginary ending, keeping the same narrator.
original text. (Witness narrator).
The boy finally decides to stay with his parents and make up for lost time, to learn.
again their mother tongue. They decide as a family to travel and see where he was all the time.
what was lost.
6) Review the reading again and write two reasons that this young man had to finally return to
place where he/she was raised.
Because in the desert he felt free and was not used to the house and the lifestyle of his
parents.
8) How do parents recognize their child? Justify based on the text.
First by the color of the eyes and then with the memory he had.and went into the kitchen. Without hesitation,
He plunged his arm into the blackened bell and pulled out the small knife with a handle made of antler that he had hidden there.
when I was a kid.
Instruction:
9) Change the underlined word for a synonym. Circle the correct alternative.
to hesitate DOCILE BARBARA
Act A) Submissive Hostile
B) To doubt B) Easy Uncultured
C) Resolver C) Aggressive C) Civilized
D) Decide Rebel Wild
4) VERTIGO 5) CHRONICLE
Fainting A) Memory
B) Serenity B) History
C) Disturbance C) Opinion
D) Interruption D) Comment
10) Un Cautivo Escapa de sus Captores en la Selva
last. Watch your spelling.
(9 to 10 lines).
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