Literary Elements
Characters
Plot
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100
Starts out symbolizing hope, but ends up symbolizing evil
What is the pearl?
100
Characterize the doctor.
What is greedy, cruel, and selfish.
100
What does the first pearl buyer tell Kino?
What is the pearl is valueless.
100

a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values

What is materialism?

100
Author of The Pearl
Who is John Steinbeck?
200

A story written to teach a moral or a message

What is a parable?

200
What happens to Coyotito that acts as the inciting incident to the story?
What is being stung by the scorpion?
200
Name three things that Kino wishes to gain from the pearl.
What is an education for Coyotito, a rifle, new clothes, a wedding for he and Juana.
200

the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work

What is exploitation?

200
Kino wants to go here to try and sell the pearl.
Where is The Capital?
300
Explain the difference between MOOD and TONE.
What is Mood = The way a piece of writing makes you feel Tone = The author's attitude towards their topic
300
Describe the relationship between all the people in the brush village?
What is very close and tied to their culture.
300
How does Juana feel about the pearl? How does this differ from Kino?
What is Juana wants to throw it back - Kino wants to sell it.
300

native; inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists

What is indigenous?

300
What is Kino's most valuable possession and give two reasons why.
What is the canoe. It was given to him by his father (represents tradition and connection to culture) and allows them to fish, eat, travel, etc.
400

What does the Doctor embody and symbolize?

The colonists' arrogance and condescension towards the natives.

400
How did Kino change from the beginning of the novel to the end? (Be sure to mention the three ways he's described)
What is human (thinking of his family, righteous desires from pearl) to animal (not trusting anyone, acting upon instinct) to machine (not thinking, just acting)
400
What happens to Coyotito at the end of the novel? What caused this to happen? Be specific!
What is he is killed. Shot by the tracker while hiding in the cave. He cried and the trackers thought it was a coyote.
400

principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior

What is morality?

400
Name two example of the Songs and explain their significance.
What is to portray a mood in the writing. The songs (Song of the Family and The Song of Evil) coincide with what is going on in the plot.
500

Pick two symbols in the novella.  What are the items and what do they symbolize?

canoe = connection to past, ancestry/culture

pearl = greed, materialism, destruction

scorpion = evil

500
Story that Juan Tomas tells Kino before he goes to town. Why does he tell it?
What is how the natives lost all their pearls in the past because they were stolen. This serves as a warning.
500
Kino and Juana throw away the pearl at the end of the novel. Explain the reason for this.
What is it has brought them nothing positive.
500

Use the following three words in contextual sentences. a) hierarchy b) avarice c) content

Answers will vary

500
What does Kino mean when he says "the pearl has become his soul"?
What is that he has lost his connections to his culture, and it has taken over his life. Without it, he has/is nothing.
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