http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pearl/facts.html
Use the site above to complete the exercise below. If there is a literary term, define it. You may use your notes or a dictionary. The next question will ask you to apply the term to the novel. You can find help at the site above. Turn in questions 1-20 before you leave.
1. The narrator –
2. Describe the narrator and explain his function in the novel.
3. Point of view-
4. Describe the point of view of the novel.
5. Setting-
6. What is the setting of the novel? How does the setting relate to the plot? How would the novel be different in a different setting?
7. Protagonist-
8. Who is the protagonist of the novel?
9. Rising action-
10. What is the rising action of the novel?
11. Climax-
12. What is the climax of the novel?
13. Falling action-
14. What is the falling action of the novel?
15. Foreshadowing-
16. What elements of the novel foreshadow the conflicts?
17. Imagery
18. What are some of the images from the novel?
19. Genre-
20. What is the genre of the novel?
TURN IN YOUR WORK
After you turn in the questions, you can do some more thinking about the novel. Ask me if you need to write the answers or if you can discuss them in small groups.
If you have trouble finding the meanings of the following, read this page: http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/pearl/summ3.html
Think about what you have read. Write your thoughts on each of the following:
Symbols:
The pearl
The scorpion
The pearl buyers
The doctor
The canoe
The villagers
Allegory: What might each of the following represent?
The priest:
The doctor:
The villagers:
The thief in the night:
The pearl buyers:
Kino:
Juana:
Coyotito:
The town as a “colonial animal”:
Concepts:
The American Dream
The Pearl of the World
“Be careful what you wish for”
“the love of money is the root of all evil”
Explain the following quotes:
From Chapter 2----
But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.
At the end of chapter 3, Juana says the pearl may eventually destroy their son. Do you think this is an example of foreshadowing? What elements of the plot indicate something negative may happen? Why do you think it might happen to Coyotito?
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