Maturità 2015 | 2A prova | Liceo Linguistico | Inglese
1) Annie is a woman who is taking a coffee from a coffee machine, and she is
looking the rain outside in the parking lot, where a man is trying to make his
children get into the car.
2) She is in a hospital and she is taking care of her daughter.
3) Grace has probably had an accident and she has lost one of her legs.
Now she is in coma.
4) Grace has been in coma for eleven days.
5) Parents and relatives are encouraged to get involved with the patient and
to help him/her keeping his/her body fit even during the coma.
6) Annie can’t stand to look at Grace’s stump.
7) Grace would choose rock music such as Nirvana or Alice in Chains, but
Annie is afraid of the effect that such a music could have on Grace’s brain.
8) Annie perceives something very similar to pity.
9) Annie starts moving Grace’s fingers, and then gently manipulates the wrist
following the rhythm of the music coming from Grace’s headphones.
10) Annie surely loves her daughter very much. All the hospital staff knows
her, and that means that she is spending most of her time close to her
daughter. She also deals with the “workout session”.
PRODUCTION, NUMBER 2
When I was eleven, my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. She was
nearly 80 years old but she appeared to be fit, and healthy. Nobody of our
family expected something like this.
First, there was the reaction. Due to the fact that my grandmother seemed to
show no symptoms, we were all very quiet. We thought we could challenge
the illness and that we were strong enough to win it.
After some time, hospital exams began, and so we were forced to give up
jobs and school in order to help my grandmother. Going inside and outside
the hospital became our everyday life, and in this way we started thinking
about that illness more seriously. Seeing other patients laying in the hospital’s
rooms, their relatives crying for them… everything was just getting so
real. We started feeling anxious, and afraid, because we weren’t sure to win
the fight against cancer anymore. My grandmother was getting worse every
day, she barely ateand her skin was fading into an unhealthy yellow colour.
All these evident symptoms scared us and made us more conscious of the
situation we were dealing it.
We began forecasting the worst. We could scarcely sleep because every
night we expected a call from the hospital, and days were full with stress,
pain, worry and anxiety. Nobody of the family wanted to let my grandmother
go, but we couldn’t even stand to see her suffer so much.
Those days before her death have been the worst of our lives.
In the end, that terrible call arrived, just in the middle of the night. We knew
what had happened as soon as we heard the telephone rang.