O fragmento de texto a seguir faz parte do romance Americanah, de Chimamanda N. Adichie. Nele, a protagonista…

Questão

O fragmento de texto a seguir faz parte do romance Americanah, de Chimamanda N. Adichie. Nele, a protagonista, Ifemelu, uma imigrante nigeriana, narra dois episódios de sua vida nos Estados Unidos. Ifemelu decided to stop faking an American accent on a sunlit day in July. It was convincing, the accent. She had perfected, from careful watching of friends and newscasters, but the accent creaked with consciousness, it was an act of will. It took an effort, the twisting of lip, the curling of tongue, the sentences starting with “So”. If she were in a panic, or terrified, she would not remember how to produce those American sounds. And so she resolved to stop, on that summer day. On that July morning, her weekend bag already packed for Massachusetts, she was making scrambled eggs when the phone rang. It was a telemarketer, a young, male American who was offering better long-distance and international phone rates. She always hung up on telemarketers, but there was something about his voice that made her turn down the stove and hold on to the receiver, something poignantly untried, untested, the slightest of tremors, an aggressive customer-service friendliness that was not aggressive at all. She asked whether he had rates better than fifty cents a minute to Nigeria. He came back and said his rates were the same. “May I ask who I’m talking to?” “My name is Ifemelu.” He repeated her name with exaggerated care. “Is it a French name?” “No. Nigerian.” “Oh, really? How long have you been in the U.S.?” “Three years.” “Wow. Cool. You sound totally American.” “Thank you.” Only after she hung up did she begin to feel the stain of a burgeoning shame spreading all over her, for thanking him, for crafting his words “You sound American” into a garland that she hung around her own neck. Why was it a compliment, an accomplishment, to sound American? And so she finished eating her eggs and resolved to stop faking the American accent. She first spoke without the American accent that afternoon at Thirtieth Street Station, leaning towards the woman behind the Amtrak counter. “Could I have a round-trip to Haverhill, please? Returning Sunday afternoon”, she said, and felt a rush of pleasure from giving the t its full due in “advantage”, from not rolling her r in “Haverhill.” This was truly her; this was the voice with which she would speak if she were woken up from a deep sleep during an earthquake. Still, she resolved that if the Amtrak woman responded to her accent by speaking too slowly as though to an idiot, then she would put on her Mr. Agbo voice, the mannered, overcareful pronunciations she had learned during debate meetings in secondary school when the bearded Mr. Agbo played BBC recordings on his cassette player and then made all the students pronounce words over and over until he beamed and cried “Correct”! But there was no need to do any of these because the Amtrak woman spoke normally. “Can I see an ID*, miss?” Comente o significado da frase “You sound American” para Ifemelu, conforme o texto. (UERJ 2020)

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Resposta esperada

Valor: probabilidade / d�favida. Tradu�e7�e3o: e talvez / possivelmente a �nica fonte de renda da cidade / povoado. Efeito: o trecho sublinhado relativiza a avaliação, feita pela mãe, da felicidade a que ela se refere. Emprego do verbo: a mãe dizia que tinha sido feliz, mas não se tem comprovação de tal felicidade. Duas das características: • inexperiente; • amigável; • não agressivo. Reescrita: você cobra menos do que 50 centavos por minuto para a Nigéria?

Explicação

Focar na análise dos trechos que explicam os sentimentos de Ifemelu em relação ao sotaque e à frase 'You sound American', relacionando-os ao contexto de identidade e pertencimento.

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