Comentários / Prefeitura de Niterói - RJ (Prefeitura Municipal de Niterói) - Professor II - COSEAC (Coordenadoria de Seleção - Universidade Federal Fluminense) - 2016

Texto I

As questões 03 a 05 referem-se ao Texto 1.

Texto 1

?John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old;

four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and

stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome

skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy

limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself

habitually at table, which made him bilious, and

gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

He ought now to have been at school; but his mama

had taken him home for a month or two, ?on account

of his delicate health.? Mr. Miles, the master,

affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer

cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the

mother?s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and

inclined rather to the more refined idea that John?s

sallowness was owing to over-application and,

perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much

affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy

to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three

times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but

continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every

morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came

near. There were moments when I was bewildered

by the terror he inspired, because I had no appeal

whatever against either his menaces or his

inflictions; the servants did not like to offend their

young master by taking my part against him, and

Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she

never saw him strike or heard him abuse me,

though he did both now and then in her very

presence, more frequently, however, behind her

back."

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Accessed on 20 April 2016.)