Plot
Characters
Symbolic Items
Quotes
100
This person is most directly affected by the conflict.
Who is Coyotito?
100
The finding of the pearl changes this persons opinion.
Who is the Doctor?
100
This saves Coyotito's life.
What is the Medicine?
100
"Do you keep this pearl in a safe place? Perhaps you would like me to keep it in my safe."
What is the doctor's way of trying to steal the pearl?
200
This happens after everyone finds out that Kino has the pearl.
What is curiosity and jealousy?
200
He fears everyone after he finds the pearl.
Who is Kino?
200
The turning point in Kino and Juana's lives.
What is the sea.
200
A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet.
What are Kino's thoughts on his town?
300
Kino's first request after finding the pearl.
What is to be married at the church, and for his son to go to school.
300
The person who is most afraid of the pearls powers.
Who is Juana?
300
This represents the wealth of Kino's family, before finding the pearl.
What is Kino's brush house?
300
"My son will read, and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing. And my son will make numbers, and these things will make us free because he will know -- he will know, and through him we will know."
What is Kino's interest in being educated?
400
The doctor's reasons for not treating Coyotito.
What is poverty, status, and race?
400
Gets Kino thinking of what he wants to do with his money form the pearl.
Who is Juan Tomas?
400
What is the cause of most of the evil in the book?
What is the pearl?
400
"You have a pearl, a good pearl"
What is the doctor's greed?
500
This stirred up evil and greed in the town.
What is the news of Kino finding the pearl.
500
This person found strength and imagination when the pearl was discovered.
Who is Kino?
500
Securing their fortune, is done by doing this.
What is hiding the pearl?
500
"This pearl is evil! This pearl is like a sin!"
What is Juana's fear of the pearl's powers?
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