Questão 3168384

Direction: Consider text I to answer questions 01 to 04.

TEXT I

Drawing Number One

“I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked

them if my drawing scared them. They answered, ‘Why be

was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

5 Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-

ups could understand. They always need explanations. My

Drawing Number Two looked like this:

Drawing Number Two

The grown-ups' advised me to put away my drawings

of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself

10 instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That

is why, I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career

as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my

Drawing Number One and of my Drawing Number Two.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it

15 is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations

over and over again. So then I had to choose another career,

and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost

everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography

has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at

20 first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the

encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of

time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range...

which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

Source: SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. The little Prince. New York: Mariner Books, 1943. Translated from French by Richard Howard.

About the career change portrayed in the text, it is possible to say that the narrator was