Questão 3 de inglês do Enem 2020: “A Mother in a Refugee Camp”, de Chinua Achebe

A Mother in a Refugee Camp

No Madonna and Child could touch
Her tenderness for a son
She soon would have to forget...
The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,
Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs
And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps
Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there
Had long ceased to care, but not this one:
She held a ghost-smile between her teeth,
and in her eyes the memory
Of a mother’s pride... She had bathed him
And rubbed him down with bare palms.
She took from their bundle of possessions
A broken comb and combed
The rust-colored hair left on his skull
And then — humming in her eyes — began carefully to part it.
In their former life this was perhaps
A little daily act of no consequence
Before his breakfast and school; now she did it
Like putting flowers on a tiny grave.

ACHEBE, C. Collected Poems. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.

O escritor nigeriano Chinua Achebe traz uma reflexão sobre a situação dos refugiados em um cenário pós-guerra civil em seu país. Essa reflexão é construída no poema por meio da representação de uma mãe, explorando a(s)

1. Ademonstração de orgulho por não precisar pedir doações.
2. Bdescrições artísticas detalhadas de uma obra conhecida.
3. Caceitação de um diagnóstico de doença terminal do filho.
4. Dconsternação ao visitar o túmulo do filho recém-falecido.
5. Eimpressões sensoriais experimentadas no ambiente.

Tente antes de ler a resolução: toque numa alternativa.