Question must be answered by looking at the following sentence from Text 1: Women’s rights convention: Sojourner Truth. But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard. Man, where was your part? But the women are coming up blessed be God and a few of the men are coming up with them. And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and the woman who bore him. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. The Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. Well, if a woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. You will have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will feel better. The poor men seem to be all in confusion, and don't know what to do. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman has a pint, and a man a quart - why can't she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much - for we can't take more than our pint will hold. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. "May I say a few words?" Receiving an affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few words about this matter.
She came forward to the platform and addressing the President said with great simplicity: Those only can appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled, earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and truthful tones. It is impossible to transfer it to paper or convey any adequate idea of the effect it produced upon the audience. One of the most unique and interesting speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner Truth, an emancipated slave. Women’s rights convention – Sojourner Truth TEXT 1 below, retrieved and adapted from loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487//ed-1/seq-4/ on July 9th, 2018. É muito comum vermos questões com reported speech em provas de vestibulares, do Enem e até mesmo de concursos públicos.Īqui você encontra uma série de exercícios para praticar e aprender de uma vez por todas como o discurso indireto é utilizado em inglês. O reported speech (discurso indireto) é utilizado na língua inglesa para contar algo que foi dito por alguém, sem reproduzir exatamente as mesmas falas.