Questões do ENEM – Inglês

      “We won’t ruin Mars. It’s too big and too good.” said the captain.

     “You think not? We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose. And Egypt is a small part of Earth. But here, this whole thing is ancient and different, and we have to set down somewhere and start fouling it up. We’ll call the canal the Rockefeller Canal and the mountain King George Mountain and the sea the Dupont Sea, and there’ll be Roosevelt and Lincoln and Coolidge cities, and it won’t ever be right, when there are the proper names for these places.”


BRADBURY, R. And the Moon Be Still as Bright. In: The Martian Chronicles. Londres: Harper Collins, 2014.


Nesse fragmento de um conto do autor Ray Bradbury, o personagem revela ao capitão

       Our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind. […] It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated […], but I suggest that the writer who is out-of-country and even out-of-language may experience this loss in an intensified form.


RUSHDIE, S. Imaginary Homelands. Londres: Vintage Books, 2010 (adaptado).



Nesse fragmento de texto, ao abordar a literatura anglo-indiana, o autor Salman Rushdie ressalta a relação entre criação literária e

we gave birth to a new generation, AmeRícan, broader than lost gold never touched, hidden inside the puerto rican mountains.


we gave birth to a new generation AmeRícan, it includes everything imaginable you-name-it-we-got-it society.


we gave birth to a new generation, AmeRícan salutes all folklores, european, indian, black, spanish and anything else compatible.


AmeRícan, yes, for now, for i love this, my second land, and i dream to take the accent from the altercation, and be proud to call myself american, in the u.s. sense of the word, AmeRícan, America!


LAVIERA, T. Benedición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2014 (fragmento).



Nos versos desse poema, o eu lírico adota um tom de 

MCPHAIL, W. Disponível em: https://fineartamerica.com. Acesso em: 25 out. 2021.

Ao utilizar a expressão “be a shame if something were to happen to it”, o pássaro

        What is it about Serena that inspires such vitriol? Is it that she dominates in a sport that was once considered to be for the upper crust at country clubs? One would think that Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe had put that idea to rest decades ago. Is it that she is considered too aggressive on the court? John McEnroe and Boris Becker seem to take the prize for that. Is it because she wins too much? To hate someone merely because he or she is great only speaks to one’s own insecurity. To attempt to and fault with someone because you cannot figure out how or why they win so often only shows that you have already lost. Or is it that she is unapologetically black? A #CarefreeBlackGirl who speaks her mind, supports her people, and whose only real opponent is herself.

Disponível em: https://theundefeated.com. Acesso em: 28 dez. 2018.

O texto, que discorre sobre Serena Williams, uma das mais bem-sucedidas atletas do tênis, tem o objetivo de

    As my official bio reads, I was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States — meaning my mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of my family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid, where I was born. Less than two months later, we emigrated once more and settled in New York City, then eventually in Miami, where I was raised and educated. Although technically we lived in the United States, the Cuban community was culturally insular in Miami during the 1970s, bonded together by the trauma of exile. What’s more, it seemed that practically everyone was Cuban: my teachers, my classmates, the mechanic, the bus driver. I didn’t grow up feeling different or treated as a minority. The few kids who got picked on in my grade school were the ones with freckles and funny last names like Dawson and O’Neil.
BLANCO, R. Disponível em: http://edition.cnn.com. Acesso em: 9 dez. 2017 (adaptado).

Ao relatar suas vivências, o autor destaca o(a)

“Two hundred years ago, Jane Austen lived in a world where single men boasted vast estates; single ladies were expected to speak several languages, sing and play the piano. In both cases, it was, of course, advantageous if you looked good too. So, how much has — or hasn't — changed? Dating apps opaquely outline the demands of today's relationship market; users ruminate long and hard over their choice of pictures and what they write in their biographies to hook in potential lovers, and that's just your own profile. What do you look for in a future partner's profile — potential signifiers of a popular personality, a good job, a nice car? These apps are a poignant reminder of the often classist atitudes we still adopt, as well as the financial and aesthetic expectations we demand from potential partners.
GALER,S. Disponível em: www.bbc.com, Acesso em: 8 dez. 2047 (adaptado)

O texto aborda relações interpessoais com o objetivo de

GAULD, T. Disponível em; www.tomgauld.com. Acesso em: 25 out 2021.
Nessa tirinha, o comportamento da mulher expressa

A Tean's Viow of Social Media
        Instagram is made up of all photos and videos. There is the home page that showcases the posts from people you follow, an explore tab which offers posts from accounts all over the wold, and your own page, with a notification tab to show who likes and comments on your posts. 
        It has some downsides though. It is known to make many people feel insecure or down about themselves because the platform shoncases the highlights of everyone's lives, while rarely showing the negatives. This can make one feel like their life is not going as well as others, contributing to the growing rates of anxiety or depression in many teens today. There is an underlying desire for acceptance through the number of likes or followers one has.
Disponível em: https://cyberbulling.org. Acesso em 29 out. 2021

O termo “downsides” introduz a ideia de que o Instagram é responsável por

I tend the mobile now like an injured bird
We text, text, text our significant words.
I re-read your first, your second, your third,
Look for your small xx, feeling absurd.
The codes we send arrive with a broken chord.
I try to picture your hands, their image is blurred.
Nothing my thumbs press will ever be heard. 
DUFFY, C. Disponível em: www.independent.co.uk. Acesso em: 27 out 2021

Nesse poema, o eu lírico evidencia um sentimento de