Questão 1
“Os abikus (àbíkus), para a cultura yorùbá, e os ogbanjes, para os ibos, são seres de mesmo conceito. Os autores Achebe e Okri (ibo) e Soyinka (yorùbá), mesmo de etnias diferentes, exploram esses elementos folclóricos em suas obras. Abiku é um termo da mitologia yoruba, que, segundo eles, é um espírito de uma criança que teima em morrer, atingindo, assim, a família com azar. Sua tradução literal é “criança que vem e vai”. A criança natimorta ou que morre prematura (até 5 anos de idade) é um abiku. O espírito abiku não quer encarnar, logo, tem uma condição de viver pouco tempo na terra, regressando ao mundo espiritual e espera nascer novamente, começando um ciclo. Os abikus, quando encarnados, são crianças que têm poderes, como por exemplo, de ser ponte entre os dois mundos”. (PARADISO, 2015, p. 178).
PARADISO, Silvio Ruiz. Literaturas em Língua Inglesa II. Maringá-Pr.: UniCesumar, 2015. Reimpresso em 2018.
Leia o seguinte excerto de “The Famished Road”, de Ben Okri.
“IN THE BEGINNING there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn.
We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries. There was much feasting, playing, and sorrowing. We feasted much because of the beautiful terrors of eternity. We played much because we were free. And we sorrowed much because there were always those amongst us who had just returned from the world of the Living. They had returned inconsolable for all the love they had left behind, all the suffering they hadn’t redeemed, all that they hadn’t understood, and for all that they had barely begun to learn before they were drawn back to the land of origins.
There was not one amongst us who looked forward to being born. We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see”.
“IN THE BEGINNING there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn.
We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries. There was much feasting, playing, and sorrowing. We feasted much because of the beautiful terrors of eternity. We played much because we were free. And we sorrowed much because there were always those amongst us who had just returned from the world of the Living. They had returned inconsolable for all the love they had left behind, all the suffering they hadn’t redeemed, all that they hadn’t understood, and for all that they had barely begun to learn before they were drawn back to the land of origins.
There was not one amongst us who looked forward to being born. We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see”.
Disponível em: https://bit.ly/2Zp1Uly. Acesso em: 27 ago. 2019.
Com base nessas informações, analise as asserções abaixo e a relação proposta entre elas.
I. A obra “The Famished Road”, de Ben Okri apresenta características folclóricas ibos, como a utilização de “abikus”, ou seja, “um termo da mitologia yoruba, que, segundo eles, é um espírito de uma criança que teima em morrer, atingindo, assim, a família com azar”.
I. A obra “The Famished Road”, de Ben Okri apresenta características folclóricas ibos, como a utilização de “abikus”, ou seja, “um termo da mitologia yoruba, que, segundo eles, é um espírito de uma criança que teima em morrer, atingindo, assim, a família com azar”.
PORQUE
II. A obra “The Famished Road”, de Ben Okri, traz uma apresentação e descrição de um “abikus” como em “We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries […] There was not one amongst us who looked forward to being born. We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe”.A respeito dessas asserções, assinale a opção correta.
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