What happened?
Compared to the size of the pearl
What is a sea gull's egg?
The colonial animal is a symbol for this.
What are the town and its people?
"Kino was a terrible machine now."
What is a metaphor?
"The Pearl is like a sin. It will destroy us. Throw it away, Kino."
He wants to benefit from the sale of Kino's pearl to help with "certain repairs necessary" on the church.
Who is the Priest?
What is throw it back into the ocean?
The Pearl is a symbol for this.
What is prosperity?
The extended metaphor Steinbeck uses to show the nature of the town of La Paz and its people.
What is a colonial animal?
"This pearl has become my soul. If I give it up, I shall lose my soul."
"Who is Kino?"
Practices legerdemain behind his desk while waiting for Kino.
Who is the pearl dealer?
Two of the ways Kino intends to spend the money he gains from the pearl.
What are Doctor for Coyotito, New Clothes, Harpoon, Rifle, Wedding, and Send Coyotito to school?
The rifle is a symbol for this.
What is power
He "hissed like a snake."
What is a Simile?
"There will be an apparent improvement, and then without warning, pouf!"
Who is the Doctor?
Borrows items for Kino's journey from the neighbors while misleading them about his whereabouts.
Who is Juan Tomas?
As Kino prepares to leave he goes to the beach and finds he cannot leave by sea because this has happened.
What is a hole in his boat?
The canoe is a symbol for this.
The wind blew in with "the smell of storm on its breath."
What is personification?
"You have defied no the pearl buyers, bu the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you."
Who is Juan Tomas?
Raises a formal lament for the dead of the family when Kino's brush house burns.
Who is Apolonia?
Kino finally does this with the pearl when he returns from his attempt to go to the capital.
What is throws it back into the ocean?
The scorpion is a symbol for this.
What is unexpected difficulty?
The way that nature mirrors and fortells the events in the life of Kino.
What is foreshadowing?
“This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”
This character is indifferent to the plight of living things.