The Pearl

Chapter 3

ANALYSIS and EVIDENCE

Directions: Work in pairs for Questions I – VII and post your answers in the Wiki. Question VIII is to be completed by all for homework.Use vocabulary from the chapter to answer the questions.
(Ch. Bauer-Ramazani)

  1. Character development: Kino

Find evidence of Kino’s changing character on pages 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37. What adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs are used to describe him? What do his actions and thoughts represent?

  1. Character development: Juana

Find evidence of Juana’s changing character on pages 23, 24, 28, 29, 30/1, 32, 33/4, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40. What adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs are used to describe her? What do her actions and thoughts represent?

  1. The priest: Find evidence on pages 21, 27, and 28.
  1. How does the author portray him? What adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs are used to describe him? Why does he use “thy” and “thou” (old forms of English for “your” and “you”)?
  2. What race/people does he represent? What has his race/people done?
  3. What institution does he represent and what are the author’s feelings about it?
  1. The doctor: Find evidence on pages 22, 29-32, 34-36.
  1. How does the author portray him? What adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs are used to describe him?
  1. What race/people does he represent?What has his race/people done? (See page 30.)
  1. The town: Find evidence on pages 21 and 23.
    How does the author portray the town? Look carefully at the description of the town as a whole (p. 21) and the people (p. 23).
  2. The foreshadowing of trouble: Find evidence on pages 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 38/9.
    How does the author indicate that there is trouble ahead? Look at the characters’ feelings and actions, words, sayings, and music.
  3. The pearl: Find evidence on pages 24-25, 38-39.
    What does it symbolize?
  4. Obvious message vs. hidden message(all)
  5. The moral of the story: Interpret the sentences and sayings on pages 23, 32, 34, 38/9:
  6. p. 23: “The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated.”
  7. p. 32: “… riches turn all people’s heads.”
  8. p. 34: “Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
  9. p. 38/9: “This pearl is like a sin. It will destroy us … It will destroy us all. … Even our son.”
  10. The hidden message:What hidden message can you derive about the author’s viewpoint from
  11. The difference between those who can read and those who cannot?
  12. The significance of education?
  13. Education and goodness?
  14. The haze over the Gulf?

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