3 Questions Sur Un Texte

[melek]

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

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 ?

j'ai trouvé :

a) les pakehas c'est à dire les blancs sont heureux mais c'est ironique car ils trouvent que ce qu'ils voient n'est pas naturel.

pr le 2 ème : A Maori admire beaucoup , aime admirer , car les enfants (2) ont arrêté les crépitement. ils sont silencieux.

b) ccl : C'est un maori qui est ds un train et il ne comprend rien , car tous ce qu'il voit ne concerne pas le naturel , car normalement le naturel est l'eau, ...

voilà, j'ai mit quelques éléments mais j'ai trouvé que c'était comme même assez difficile

je vous remercie d'avance...

je voudrais bien que vous me dites ce que vous en pensez de mes questions, qu'est ce que je pourrais mettre ??...

svp svp...

[yveslouis]

  Le 29/04/2011 à 22:13, melek a dit :

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

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 ?

j'ai trouvé :

a) les pakehas c'est à dire les blancs sont heureux mais c'est ironique car ils trouvent (le voyageur ???) que ce qu'ils voient n'est pas naturel.

pr le 2 ème : Un Maori admire beaucoup, aime admirer, car les enfants (2) ont arrêté les crépitement de jacasser. ils sont silencieux.

b) ccl : C'est un maori qui est dans un train et il ne comprend rien , car tout ce qu'il voit ne concerne pas le naturel , car normalement le naturel est l'eau, ...

Voilà, j'ai mis quelques éléments mais j'ai trouvé que c'était comme quand même assez difficile.

Ces éléments, il faut les mettre en anglais !

je vous remercie d'avance...

je voudrais bien que vous me dites disiez e que vous en pensez de mes questions, qu'est ce que je pourrais mettre ??...

svp svp...