anglais corrrigé de new girl

« The new girl : COMPRÉHENSION /41 remis sur 20 1.

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.

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3) – Allison and I… (l.

4) – I lived… (l.

6) – I was eight and Allison was ten.

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6)… (43 words) Attention: ce n’est pas parce que le narrateur utilise la 1è personne qu’il s’agit d’une autobiographie.

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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 girl 5.

The atmosphere is friendly.

Allison and the narrator are playing and riding their bikes together.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.

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“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.

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18) – The girl kept smiling too.

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20) 8.

a.

True The girl’s smile disappeared.

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23) b.

False I turned back to the girl and twisted my mouth into a sneer, trying to imitate the hatred I had seen on Allison’s face.

I avoided the girl’s eyes.

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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 .

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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 passage is full of hatred.

Indeed, when Allison saw the girl, she became aggressive and insulted her.

Allison was so prejudiced that she didn’t even try to make friends with the black girl.

In the first passage, though, she was just a carefree child.

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The girl must have felt scared and taken aback by the two white children’s attitude towards her.

She probably did not understand why Allison had been so mean to her, and why the narrator, who had been so nice at first, had suddenly become so aggressive.

(46 words) 13.

The narrator watched the little black girl go back home.

Then, a few moments later, as he was still watching her house, he saw a brown hand pull back the curtains a little and he realized that the girl’s mother was looking at them.

(44 words) 14.

Allison is clearly under her mother’s influence and her words reflect her mother’s intolerance and narrow-mindedness.

She just keeps repeating her mother’s words without being able to explain them to the narrator.

She cannot think for herself.

(37 words) 15.

“How are they going to ruin your house?” (l.

41) 16.

When the narrator said “Niggers are stupid.

Maybe they’ll move.” (l.

43), he definitely sided with Allison.

He must have been influenced by her.

He did so to show that, as Allison’s friend, he thought like her and had the same opinions about black people.

Today, he must feel remorseful about what he did.

He must feel guilty because he knows that what he and Allison did was wrong.

(69 words) Traduction Je regardai la petite fille pousser sa bicyclette dans Prospect Street et la jeter sur la pelouse de sa maison.

Elle monta les marches du porche en traînant les pieds, tête baissée et menton tremblant, puis disparut dans la maison.

Quelques instants après, les rideaux de l’une des fenêtres s’entrouvrirent, pas suffisamment pour que. »