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The Pearl LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. John Steinbeck's The Pearl, published in 1947, retells a Mexican folk tale about Kino, a poor pearl diver who finds an enormous pearl and believes it will pay for his son's medical treatment and his education. Instead the pearl draws theft, violence, and manipulation: the doctor who refused to treat Coyotito suddenly appears, the buyers conspire to underpay, and Kino is attacked repeatedly. Steinbeck tells it as a parable, with flat, deliberate prose and characters who stand for forces as much as they are individuals, and he opens by saying that in a parable everyone takes their own meaning from it. The ending, in which Kino throws the pearl back into the sea after his son is killed, refuses the consolation a conventional plot would offer. The novella is read as a critique of colonial exploitation and of the belief that wealth alone changes a person's position. Questions: 1 What does Kino believe the pearl will buy? 2 Why does Steinbeck write it as a parable? 3 What does the ending refuse? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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The Pearl LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. John Steinbeck's The Pearl, published in 1947, retells a Mexican folk tale about Kino, a poor pearl diver who finds an enormous pearl and believes it will pay for his son's medical treatment and his education. Instead the pearl draws theft, violence, and manipulation: the doctor who refused to treat Coyotito suddenly appears, the buyers conspire to underpay, and Kino is attacked repeatedly. Steinbeck tells it as a parable, with flat, deliberate prose and characters who stand for forces as much as they are individuals, and he opens by saying that in a parable everyone takes their own meaning from it. The ending, in which Kino throws the pearl back into the sea after his son is killed, refuses the consolation a conventional plot would offer. The novella is read as a critique of colonial exploitation and of the belief that wealth alone changes a person's position. Questions: 1 What does Kino believe the pearl will buy? 2 Why does Steinbeck write it as a parable? 3 What does the ending refuse? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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