Unit 15
Activity 2
A new beginning
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That morning, the morning of my first day, the morning that followed my first night, was a sunny morning. It was not the sort of bright
sun-yellow making everything curl at the edges, almost in fright, that I was used to, but a pale-yellow sun, as if the sun had grown weak from trying too hard to shine; but still it was sunny, and that was nice and made me miss my home less. And so, seeing the sun, I got up and put on a dress, a gay dress made out of madras cloth — the same sort of dress that I would wear if I were at home and setting out for a day in the country. It was all wrong. The sun was shining but the air was cold. It was the middle of January, after all. But I did not know that the sun could shine and
the air remain cold; no one had ever told me. What a feeling that was! How can I explain? Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the color brown of a nut rubbed repeatedly with
a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, “the sun is shining, the air is warm,” was not so. I was no longer in a tropical zone, and this realization now entered my life like a flow of water dividing formerly dry and solid ground, creating two banks, one of which was my past — so familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now just to think of it — the other my future, a gray blank, an overcast seascape on which rain was falling and no boats were in sight. I was no longer in a tropical zone and I felt cold inside and out, the first time such a sensation had come over me.
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PATH A
B1
1-A
How is the narrator described in the text?
2-A
What emotions does the narrator express
when describing her first day in the new
country?
3-A
Why does the narrator feel “cold inside and
out” for the first time? What does this tell us
about her experience of migration?
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PATH B
B1+
1-B
Identify the vocabulary of the weather.
What does it reveal about the narrator's
identity?
2-B
What does the description of the sun tell
us about her emotions?
3-B
What does the madras dress symbolize
in the narrator's story?
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Let's talk this out!
4
Identify elements from the text that show the narrator's personal perspective. Is the description of her first day objective or subjective?
5
What does the narrator's reaction to the sun and weather reveal about her cultural background and sense of identity?
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Write a letter home.
Imagine you are the narrator in Jamaica Kincaid's story, experiencing your first day in a new country. You feel both disoriented and nostalgic for your home. Write a letter to someone back home, describing your first impressions of the place, how you feel, and what you miss most about your homeland.Une erreur sur la page ? Une idée à proposer ?
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