Alinethe blue bailarina

CILT – Centro Inerescolar de Línguas de TaguatingaCILT’s Writing Club

Café Litarário do CILT

Gerson Moura

Once there was a little girl called Aline who wondered what shewould be one day...

Her grandparents loved her, but they didn’t want her to follow theartistic world. They said people who followed this path were toopromiscuous and had a hard life, because they didn’t earn enoughmoney to make ends meet...

Her father wanted her to be a public servant, a nurse, an engineer,a doctor maybe or anything that would guarantee her enoughmoney to be independent and would also make her happy...

Her mother said she could be anything she wanted as long as shechose something honest, descent and which she could earn enough tobe independent and be happy. So, her mother suggested she cold bea lawyer or a teacher...

Until one day she saw...

... a pink bailarina dancing and she immediately decided what shewanted to be...

But since she didn’t like pink so much, she decided she would be ablue bailarina...

When she told her parents that she wanted to be a blue bailarina theybecame worried, because they knew that is a profession not wellrecognised and valued in Brazil, yet... Also, it’s a very competitiveprofession with a very short period of life, the older you get more difficultit is to continue being a bailarina...

...She tought for a long time about what her parents had told her andabout the arguments they used...

The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to become ablue bailarina...

She talked to her friends who were also ballet dancers and theytold her they suffered the same kind of pressure at home, becausetheir parents used to say the same things to them... They listened veryrespectfully to them, but then just carried on with their dream...

After listening to everyone and analysing all the pros and cons, shemade up her ming, She decided she would fight for her dreams andovercome all the obstacles she would find on her way to accomplishher goal...

Although she knew that her most difficult obstacle to overcome wouldbe her inner feelings, like the feeling of being insecure and afraid offailing and not achieving her goals and feeling like a sucker. She had toface all the inner ghosts that haunted her before facing others ...

There were days when she thought about surrending and giving upeverything, but then she remembered that God was her strenght andwhenever she prayed to Him... Her faith on everything was renewed andonly then she could find strenght to carry on

...And so, by doing what made her happy, by doing what she needed tobecome independent and by renewing her strength through prayers, herheart found peace and she ended up doing both the things she loved andwhat she needed...

For she discoveredthat one thing doesnot have to excludeanother. She foundout she couldachieve her dreamspart time and alsohave a steady job togive her the financilsupport in times ofneed... But, most ofall, she knew thather strehght couldalways be renewedthrough her prayers.

And even if shecould not dance allthe times, she was stilla happy girl, because- in her heart - shewould always be –Aline, the bluebailarina...

T H A N K S F O R R E A D I N G “ A L I N E – T H E B L U E B A I L A R I N A ” B Y G E R S O N A R A U J O D E M O U R A

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How about you? What is your ideal world like?

In my ideal world, there...____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How about you? Have you ever had to fight for a dream? Comprehension Questions:

1. Is the main characters’s dream accomplished? _______________.

2. How does the character achieve her dreams? _________________.

3. Are there any new words you learned with this book? ___________.

4. What new words have you learned with this book? _____________.

5. If you could change any part of the book, what part would you like to change?

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6. What part of the book did you like most? _________________________

7. What part of the book did you like least? _________________________

8. Did you learn any lesson with this book? __________________________

9. How can we make this world better place to live? ____________________

10. Who is responsible for making this world a better place to live? __________

Cilt’s Students’ Literary Production

Author: Gerson Araujo de MouraEditorial Supervisor: Teacher: Gerson A. Moura

Illustrator/artist: Dwelldeep

Publisher: www.storybird.com

Date: I Semester - Fall 2015

A project from ‘Cilt’s Writing Club’: “Café Literário”

CILT: Centro Interescolar de Línguas de Taguatinga