Questão 3

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The first time our house was robbed, it was our
neighbor who climbed ........ through the dining
room window and stole our TV, our VCR, and
some videotapes. The second time our house
[5] was robbed, it was my brother Nnamabia who
faked a break$-\in$ and stole my mother’s jewelry.
It happened on a Sunday. My parents had
traveled, so Nnamabia and I went to church
alone. He drove my mother’s car. We sat
[10] together $\in$ church, but he \left without a word
after about ten minutes. He came back just
before the priest said “Go $\in$ peace.” I imagined
he had gone off to smoke and to see some girl,
since he had the car to himself for once. We
[15] drove home $\in$ silence and, when he parked $\in$
our driveway, I stopped to pluck some flowers
while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. I
went inside to find him standing still $\in$ the
\middle of the parlor. “We’ve been robbed!” he
[20] said.
It took me a moment to understand. I felt that
there was a theatrical quality to the way the
drawers were flung open, as if it had been done
to make an impression. Or perhaps it was
[25] simply that I knew my brother so well. My
father knew, too. He pointed out that the
window had been opened from the inside,
rather than outside, and that the robber knew
exactly where the jewelry was. Nnamabia
[30] stared at my father with dramatic, wounded
eyes and said, “I know I have caused you both
terrible pain $\in$ the past, but I would never
violate your trust like this.” He used words like
“terrible pain” and “violate,” as he always did
[35] when he was defending himself. Then he
walked out ........ the back door and came
home two weeks later, gaunt, smelling of beer,
crying, saying he was sorry and he had pawned
the jewelry and all the money was gone.
[40] My father asked Nnamabia to write a report:
how he had sold the jewelry, what he had
spent the money on, with whom he had spent
it. I don’t think he thought Nnamabia would tell
the truth, but my professor father liked reports
[45] and things nicely documented. Besides,
Nnamabia was seventeen. What else could my
father have done? “That he could hurt his
mother like this” was the last thing my father
said, $\in a$ mutter.
[50] But Nnamabia really hadn’t set out to hurt her.
He did it because my mother’s jewelry was the

only thing of value $\in$ the house. He did it, too,
because other sons of professors were doing it.
The thieving boys were the popular ones. They
[55] drove their parents’ cars, their seats pushed
back and their arms stretched out to reach the
steering wheel.
When, at eleven, Nnamabia broke the window
of his classroom with a stone, my mother paid
[60] to replace it and did not tell my father. When
he pressed the key of my father’s car into a
piece of soap that my father found before
Nnamabia could take it to a locksmith, she
made vague sounds about how he was just
[65] experimenting. When he stole the exam
questions and sold them to my father’s
students, she shouted ....... him but then told
my father that Nnamabia was sixteen, after all,
and really should be given more pocket money.
[70] I don’t know whether Nnamabia felt remorse
........ stealing her jewelry. I could not always
tell what he really felt. And we never talked
about that after that day. It was as if
pretending that Nnamabia had not done those
[75] things would give him the opportunity to start
afresh. The robbery might never have been
mentioned again if Nnamabia had not been
arrested three years later and locked up at the
police station.

Considere as seguintes afirmações em relação ao texto.

I - A narradora deixa transparecer ciúme e sentimentos de injustiça, ao relatar como os pais protegiam e davam preferência ao irmão, apesar de sua conduta reprovável.

II - A narração da irmã sugere que a mãe teria tido papel preponderante nos eventos que culminaram na prisão de Nnamabia.

III- O relato da irmã sugere que o roubo das joias da mãe teria sido um divisor de águas na vida do irmão, pois teria reverberado alguns anos mais tarde.

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