The New Girl
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COMPRÉHENSION /41 remis sur 201.
The text is a first-person narrative (c'est l'expression consacrée): the
events are seen through the eyes of the main character, who is also the narrator.→ ...
our bike seats, our
skin, our hair.
(l.
3) -Allison and I...
(l.
4) - I lived...
(l.
6) - I was eight and Allison was ten.
(l.
6)...
(43
words)Attention: ce n'est pas parce que le narrateur utilise la 1è personne qu'il s'agit d'une autobiographie.2.
The main characters are the narrator, who is eight years old, Allison, a ten-year-old* girl (* il s'agit d'un
adjective ici d'où l'absence de S et les tirets) and a little black girl who is younger than them.The narrator and
Allison are white.They are neighbours and friends.
The little girl has just moved in with her mother and is
rejected by Allison and the narrator.
(54 words)3.
The characters live in a “white, middle-class
neighbourhood” and the story certainly takes place in summer as it is “a hot, bright day”
(l.
2), “everything is burning” (l.
2) and Allison's father is watering the lawn.
(33 words)4.
a.
the
narrator and Allison - b.
the little black girl - c.
the little black girl5.
The atmosphere is friendly.
Allison and the
narrator are playing and riding their bikestogether.When the little girl appears, the narrator is welcoming: he
smiles to her and she smiles back.
He is not prejudiced yet and doesn't reject her.
(41 words)6.“Get out
of here, nigger,” with such contempt...
(l.
18) - “I said get out of here, nigger, or I'll beat you
up.” (l.
22)7.“ I froze,my smile still glued on my face.
(l.
18) - The girl kept smiling too.
(l.
20)8.
a.
True The girl's smile disappeared.
(l.
23)b.
False I turned back to the girl and twisted my mouth into a sneer,
trying to imitate the hatredI had seen on Allison's face.
I avoided the girl's eyes.
(l.
26)c.
False The girl said,
“I thought maybe we could play.My name is -” (l.
28)9.
Allison is prejudiced, intolerant,
narrow-minded, scornful, contemptuous and full of hatred.
→ Her eyes were drawn into slits...
(l.
23) - ...
the
hatred I had seen on Allison's face.
(l.
26) - Allison spat back, “I don't play with niggers.” (l.
29)10.
The narrator must have felt ashamed of himself.
He didn't want to be aggressive towards the black girl, but as
he wanted to keep Allison as his friend, he imitated her without realizing what he was doing.
(37 words)11.
This.
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