O conto é um gênero narrativo de extensão curta que possui, em geral, um conflito, uma ação, poucos personagens e com limitada variação de tempo e de espaço. Um conflito, personagens indeterminados e descrição detalhada do espaço. Uma ação, personagens anônimos e espaço reduzido. Um conflito, limitação do espaço e poucas personagens. O texto "Natureza-morta" pode ser lido como um conto, pois, como características, apresenta:ĭiversas ações, narrador em terceira pessoa e descrição de sentimentos. (.) e ela, até onde a vista alcança, observa as escandalosas casas de tijolos à mostra, esqueletos de colunas, lajes por acabar, pipas singrando o céu cinza, fedor de esgoto, um comichão na pálpebra superior esquerda e a solidão e o desespero.Īdaptado de: RUFFATO, Luiz. (.) No corredor, onde desaguavam as três salas-de-aula, gizes esmigalhados, rastros de cola colorida, massinhas-de-modelar esmagadas, folhas de papel sulfite estragadas, (.) Em correria, gritos atravessam as telhas francesas, olhos mendigam explicações. O corpo no ombro direito, a custo cedeu, pororoca estraçalhando, arrastando, O quê? Em algazarra, as crianças, às suas costas, espiavam-na, assustadiças, curiosas. A tia girou a chave, empurrou a porta, Ê!, algo a emperrava, estranhou.
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Wicks was the science outreach communicator for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution onboard the R/V Atlantis for Popping Rocks Cruise in March/April 2016. Her work in science education and outreach continues in her comics. She was a program educator at the New England Aquarium for eight years, teaching people about awesomeness of marine science. When she is not busy making comics, Wicks can be found prepping slides for her collection of vintage microscopes, traveling, scuba diving, hiking, and baking cookies. Her next book is Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, written by Jim Ottaviani (February 2020). She shared her love of the ocean in Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean (2016). Wicks wrote and illustrated Human Body Theater (2015), a 240-page book about the major systems of the human body told in comics format. Wicks is the illustrator of the book Primates (2013), written by Jim Ottaviani. She has written, drawn, and colored comics for First Second Books, the New England Aquarium, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as Spongebob Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. Maris Wicks is a writer and illustrator of science comics as well as a self-proclaimed nerd. How blue and hard is the sea as it curls westward from the bay, and the Blackhead, darkly purple, leans to the deep water like a sloping shoulder. The mist and cloud have gone, and the sun, high now and full of warmth, holds revel with my ebb tide. Nothing is regretted, and I am happy and proud. It is a strange, joyous feeling, this streak back to the past. When the water drains from the marshes, and little by little the yellow sands appear, rippling and hard and firm, it seems to my foolish fancy, as I lie here, that I too go seaward with the tide, and all my old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time are bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones are on the sands. Because of this, the tall grass in the meadow never dries, but long past midday shimmers and glistens in the sun, the great drops of moisture hanging motionless upon the stems. A white mist hides the bay sometimes until noon, and hangs about the marshes too, leaving, when it lifts, a breath of cold air behind it. The sun no longer strikes my eastern window as I wake, but, turning laggard, does not top the hill before eight o'clock. |