Questão 3171825

Direction: Read the text below and answer questions 33 to 35 according to it.

TEXT I

“no one leaves home unless

home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border

5 when you see the whole city

running as well”.

Warsan Shire, “Home”. (SHIRE apud YOUSAFZAI, 2019, p. V)

“I have had the immense privilege of meeting many

individuals who had to rebuild their lives, often in totally

foreign places. People who have lost so much - including

10 loved ones – and then had to start over. This means

learning a new language, new culture, a new way of

being. I share my story of being displaced not out of a

desire to focus on my past, but to honour the people I´ve

met and those I´ll never meet.

15 I wrote this book because it seems that too many people

don´t understand that refugees are ordinary people. All

that differentiates them is that they got caught in the

middle of a conflict that forced them to leave their homes,

their loved ones, and the only lives they had known. They

20 risked so much along the way, and why? Because it is too

often a choice between life and death.

And, as my family did a decade ago, they chose life”.

(YOUSAFZAI, 2019, P. XI)

(Source: YOUSAFZAI, M. We are Displaced. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019 – London)

Choosing life over death means