Alguma vez você já se perguntou sobre como as coisas funcionam? Já viu uma estrela e ficou pensando em como ela chegou lá e por quanto tempo ela brilha? Já se viu encantado pelos mistérios do universo?
Acredite! Você não está sozinho! Muita gente por aí pensa nessas coisas pelo menos uma vez na vida, mas pouquíssimos são os que vão atrás de respostas. Bom, se você quer saber um pouco mais sobre o assunto, o aluno Pedro Ivo do Junior 5 tem a solução ideal para você: o livro Geoge’s Scret Key to the Universe. Olha só o que ele tem a dizer sobre essa obra:
Stephen Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. He and his daughter Lucy Hawking, who is a journalist and writer, wrote the book: George’s Secret Key to the Universe.
The main character is George, a boy who dreams of having a computer, but that is almost impossible to him because his parents think that technology is killing our planet. In other words, they are technology-fearing. But everything changed after his pig, Freddy, went to his neighbors’ house. There, he found Annie, a headstrong and Ballet-loving girl, and her father Eric, a very smart scientist who created the most powerful computer in the universe! But someone wants this computer, Dr. G. Reeper, teacher of George’s and a very mysterious person.
The book tells the story of George discovering the secrets of the universe. The title refers to “Cosmos”, the most powerful computer in the universe, which can open, literally, windows to all the points of the universe. The story takes place, most of hte time, in Eric’s house.
The book has amazing photos and lots of information about the universe, galaxies, nebulas, planets, comets and more. It also talks a lot about the planets of the Solar System, Black holes, and what happens when stars bigger than sun run out of “fuel” and explode.
You won’t be disappointed if you read this book, and if you like physics, it is a great opportunity to learn even more about our galaxy and its constitution. And if you don’t like it, there is no problem, the book is really easy to read and everything is very well explained.
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O título desse post é o mesmo de um livro fascinante que mostra o impacto do 9/11 sob a perspectiva de uma criança. Oskar perde seu pai no ataque e teve sua vida completamente mudada depois disso.
Use as palavras escritas em CAIXA ALTA dentro dos parênteses para formar uma palavra que se encaixa nas lacudas dessa crítica do livro.
If Jonathan Safran Foer ever tells his readers what he thinks and feels, he tells it slant. Half of his (CELEBRATE)_________________ debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, consisted of (TIRED)_________________ magic-realist yarns about a Ukrainian shtetl, written by a quasi-fictional Jonathan Safran Foer. The other half was a brilliant yet tender satire of life in postcommunist Eastern Europe told by the young guide who escorts “Foer” to the village’s ruins. The real Foer’s second and latest novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, shows that he hasn’t lost his taste for naïve or otherwise (RELY)_________________ narrators. It looks at September 11 through the eyes of Oskar Schell, a weird, precocious 9-year-old whose father died in the World Trade Center collapse.
In a novel about the Holocaust, this kind of oblique, even playful, strategy worked, partly because the subject has already been so (EXHAUST)_________________ and earnestly explored. But September 11, that spectacular (MONSTER)_________________ plopped into the middle of an ordinary Tuesday in downtown Manhattan, is another matter. We’re still not entirely sure what it signifies, or even if, (PHILOSOPHY)__________________ speaking (and this is the hardest possibility to contemplate), it might signify nothing at all. It may just be too early to get cute in writing about September 11; on the other hand, there’s never a good time to get as cute as Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gets.
What attracts Foer to these tragedies isn’t so much their (HISTORY)_________________ resonance as their (EMOTION)_________________ power: They opened up great, weeping maws of grief and loss. He’s drawn to pathos, but being a smart and self-conscious young writer, he’s also (PAIN)_________________ aware of the perils of (SENTIMENT)_________________. With a child narrator like Oskar, you can finesse the problem; he can’t be expected to realize his own poignancy, let alone be accused of wallowing in it. The distance makes Foer think—incorrectly—that he can get away with whimsies like having Oskar imagine a “special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York,” collecting the tears of people who cry themselves to sleep and funneling them into the Central Park reservoir.
Perhaps Foer could have pulled this off if Oskar felt alive. Instead, Oskar resembles nothing so much as a plastic bag crammed with oddities. For every eccentricity that makes (PSYCHOLOGY) _________________ sense—fear of public transportation or an overly clinical interest in the bombing of Hiroshima, for example—there’s another that’s just piled on. We never learn why Oskar insists on wearing only white or plays the tambourine incessantly. He’s an alien, but you can’t quite figure out how he got that way. If he learned about sex from the Internet, as he claims, how come he knows that “hump” is a slang term for intercourse, but not that “pussy” can refer to something other than a cat?
A 9-year-old can be an (PREDICT) _________________ mix of child and adult, but when not making fart jokes, Oskar is prone to reflections beyond the emotional (SOPHISTICATE) _________________ of any kid, however brainy. It’s possible to believe that he spends his days writing letters to famous people, but not that, noticing he’s used his (VA)LUE)_________________ stamp collection for postage, he could wonder “if what I was really doing was trying to get rid of things.” Oskar isn’t the only character prone to drifting out of focus and becoming a device serving the author’s purposes rather than a fully imagined human being. How else could Oskar’s grandmother, a nice, seventysomething, bourgeois German woman, in a letter to her grandson, describe the loss of her virginity in such poetic detail? The photographs and typographically unconventional pages strewn throughout the book are a particularly precious touch.
Despite this elaborate (PRESENT)_________________, there’s a (CALCULATE)_________________ at the heart of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: The death of a beloved parent will always be cataclysmic to a child, but the attacks of September 11 were also cataclysmic in another way, a way that can only be understood with the perspective and context that comes from an adult’s experience. Choosing a child narrator gives Foer access to extravagant emotions and quirky imaginings that would seem cloying or self-indulgent in a grown-up, but at the cost of allowing the central trauma its due. September 11 was a surreal intrusion of the spectacular and malevolent into the banal and safe. But for a kid like Oskar, reality has yet to be fully established, so surreality is impossible. How and why his father was lost matters little next to the raw fact of his (APPEAR)_________________.
At times, you can detect Foer trying to adjust for this mistake, but he doesn’t succeed at the one thing that might have transcended it: conviction in his characters. When Oskar’s grandfather returns after a 40-year absence, he’s more like an old appliance pulled out of the closet than a person who’s been living a life elsewhere in the intervening decades. If their creator can’t quite manage to believe in these people, how can we?
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