...THE PEARL MARKET TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. HISTORY OF FINE PEARLS MYTHS. ................................................................................... 2 .MAJOR CATEGORIES OF FINE PEARLS. ............................................................................ 3 III. THE VALUE OF FINE PEARLS. ........................................................................................... 3 IV. CULTURED PEARLS – MAN AND NATURE JOIN FORCES. ................................................. 4 V. HISTORY OF CULTURED PEARLS 100 YEARS. ................................................................... 4 VI. IMITATIONS – ALL MAN. ................................................................................................... 4 VII. MAJOR CATEGORIES OF CULTURED PEARLS . ................................................................. 5 VIII. PEARL CULTIVATION AREAS. .......................................................................................... 6 IX. CREATING CULTURED PEARLS. ...................................................................................... 6 X. XI. PEARL PRODUCTION – Volume...
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...Vera Kemzane Group 4B The text analysis “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck. The present extract is from the novel “The Pearl” written by American author John Steinbeck. The novel is about Kino, who is a pearl diver and main theme is man`s nature, both evil and good, greed and honest. The extract refers to the part of the novel, when Kino discovers an enormous pearl or “the Pearl of the World”. The register of the text is fictional narrative, and type of narration is heterodiegetic, because the narrator situated outside the level of action. The text is with omniscient point of view, or zero focalization – the narrator knows more than characters. The authorial narrative allows the narrator to have an insight into the thoughts and feelings of the characters, and to see the story from outsider`s position: And he wondered whether he had baptized Kino`s baby, or married him for that matter. And the doctor’s eyes rolled up a little fat hammocks and he thought of Paris. He remembered the room he had lived in there … In addition, it is a third-person narrative extract, because all character of the story referred as “they” “it” “he”: their mother knew it; his eyes; he wondered; they waited etc. Finally, it is overt narrator; he makes his opinion known and gives extra information and explanations: The news came to the doctor where he sat with a woman whose illness was age, thought neither she nor the doctor would admit it (this is also an example of irony). The narrator uses evaluative...
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...Islamic Architecture in the UAE Many cities all over the world are developing to become important urban areas in all respects like Tokyo, New York and Mumbai. Every city has some reasons for their develop like building factories, importance of the location and much more. On the other hand there are some cities that had decline like Detroit, Flint and Cleveland because they only have depended on one resource for income. Abu Dhabi has grown through its economic vision and it is trying to sustainable its development through diversification to avoid declining. Development and growth in cities is shown through some reasons. The strategic location of the city. For this reason, most major cities are on rivers or at the junction of important overland routes (City, 2008). Moreover some cities owe for the importance of religion and became centers of worship (City, 2008). For example the city of Rome survived the collapse of the Roman empire because it was the capital of western Christendom (City, 2008). Early cities that developed strong military forces added to their territory, wealth and importance by conquest. Favorably located settlements often became large and prosperous through commerce (City, 2008). Also some modern cities owe to their development and to the fact that they were built as national capitals. Like Washington, D.C; Canberra, Australia (City, 2008). Climate also is a an important factor; the cities of Florida owe much of their growth to the state’s...
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...devices in a story can really bring out its themes and the point that the author is trying to get across. John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl is abounding with literary devices that are used to show greed. Greed had a very important role in this novel. The main character, Kino, had found what he called ‘the pearl of the world’ and was overcome with greed because of this relic. Kino originally wanted to use this pearl’s wealth to heal his son, Coyotito, who was stung by a scorpion. However, it wasn’t just Kino that was overcome with the power of the pearl-some characters in the book felt its pull indirectly. This novel shows symbolism, foreshadowing, and character reactions to the power of the pearl. Symbolism in this novel is extremely...
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...“I want your expertise in hiring the best mercenaries and skilled craftsmen available to assist Professor Kinnock, as secrecy for this project is of the utmost importance.” Kane thought for a while, sipping on his wine. “I know the perfect man, his name is Jouka, a well-disciplined individual with superior leadership skills with loyal followers who will do as he directs and for the right price, his loyalty can be bought.” “Good. Secure their services. You and your mercenaries are going to Milorien.” “Milorien, my lord?” Kane was dumbfounded, but after a few moments, he composed himself and asked the question that Nightburn knew he would ask. “What’s at Milorien?” “An old military installation that my father and Professor Kinnock secretly constructing, although it’s a pile of rumble now, with time, it should be possible to return it to its former state. I want you and your men to begin reconstruction under the direction of Professor Kinnock. I have made arrangements for you to procure the funds you’ll need to accomplish this task.” Nightburn then stood, and pulled out a world map from his desk drawer laying it out in front of them. He tore away sections of the map leaving only Milorien, marking the location of the base with his pen. “You are not to tell anyone about this, especially Balthazar. Under no circumstances, can anyone other than those directly involved in this project, know about its existence. Do you understand my meaning?” “Yes, your meaning is crystal clear...
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...of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” This means that even if people do bad things, deep down they are still good people that care for other human beings and have feelings. I agree with this statement. In the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck and the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the characters Kino and Gene are still good at heart despite the bad things they may have done. In the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino is a young Mexican man who finds a valuable pearl. Before finding the pearl, Kino has a peaceful life with his wife, Juana and his son, Coyotito. Kino finds a pearl and people try to take advantage of him to get their hands on the pearl. Because of this, Kino is driven to do things he normally would not and the mood of the story turns dark. He beats a man who tries to attack him, he beats his wife for trying to get rid of the pearl and the bad luck it is causing Kino’s family and finally, he kills a man who tries to take the pearl away from him. This story is told from a third person point of view that allows the reader to get to know Kino before and after he finds this pearl. The reader sees that Kino is a good person who, because of the bad fortune this pearl is bringing him, is forced to do things that he normally would not. Despite all of his mistakes and the bad things that happen in the story, Kino is still a good...
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...What does isolation mean? Isolation means when someone is cut off from the world or they are in a mental institution. The boys were isolated because they have no interaction with the outside world. They did not have any adults to tell them what to do. The island they were on was away from local city or towns. The boys had to find a way to survive even without any way of knowing how to do something. The novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is about a group of boys on an airplane that crashes on an island. The reason the boys left England is because there was fighting going on during World War II. The novel starts off with Ralph looking around and wondering where all the adults are. He finds out all the adults are dead; however, all the children are still alive. Ralph meets a fat boy named Piggy. The two boys are wounding around the lagoon and they found a conch shell. The two boys meet the other young boys. All of the boys have a meeting about how to get off of this island. Jack has another idea he wants to hunt for food. The elect Ralph as the chief of the island. Jack is elected as the hunter for the group of boys. Jack gets tired of keeping up with the fire. Instead, he and some other boys make their own little tribe. During the chant, the boys brutally beat Simon and eventually it kills him. The boys have the fire going and a navy ship come to the store. The officer helps the boys get back home. Golding uses characters and setting to explain the theme of isolation...
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...Name _______________________ Date ________________________ Period_______________________ The Pearl Study Questions Chapter 1 1. Why is there no need for Kino and Juana to talk? a. Kino is angry with Juana. b. Every morning is the same, so they know what to do and don’t need words. c. Juana left Kino a note. 2. What song replaces the Song of the Family? a. The Song of Morning b. The Song of the Scorpion c. The Song of Evil 3. Why does Juana repeat “ancient magic words” to guard against evil? a. A scorpion is walking toward Coyotito. b. The brush house is on fire. c. Juana is a witch. 4. How did the scorpion manage to sting the baby? a. Coyotito shook the rope the scorpion was on and it fell in his crib. b. Kino dropped the scorpion in the crib. 5. Why is the scorpion sting so dangerous for a baby? a) Scorpion bites cause swelling, fever and stomach cramps. b) Scorpion bites can make an adult very ill and kill a baby. c) Scorpion bites leave an ugly scar. 6. Why does Kino think the doctor will not come to them? a. The doctor is too far away. b. They don’t know where the doctor is. c. The doctor is too busy taking care of his rich patients. 7. Draw the procession described on page 8 and label the characters going to see the doctor. 8. What do the beggars infer about Kino and Juana? a. They see them running and think there is an emergency. b. They see their old clothes...
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...The Pearl by John Steinbeck is a great book that depicts how greed can corrupt a man. The Pearl is best known for its surplus of imagery and symbolism. One example of symbolism Steinbeck incorporated in the book is Kino’s boat. Kino’s boat can be seen as a symbol for family. His family was all pearl divers and the boat had been passed down from generation to generation. The songs that Kino hears are also symbols. They symbolize what is going around him. For example, when Kino first sees the pearl in its shell, he hears the Song of the Pearl That Might Be, also, when the doctor enters Kino’s home, he hears the Song of Evil. Another example of symbolism Steinbeck included is the pearl itself. When Kino first finds the pearl, it is seen as...
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...The Pearl Literary Analysis In 1947 John Steinbeck wrote a novel, “The Pearl”, about exposing social injustices practiced on a poor indigenous community of pearl divers in La paz Mexico. John used the pearl as multiple motifs to make the theme during the book. The indigenous pearl divers of La Paz would never break out of poverty, even when they find a big beautiful pearl.The reason is that the people who live in the town would never allow it by stealing, tracking, and even killing. This book is exposing it secretly with the pearl representing something different throughout the book. In the beginning of the book the pearl represents hope and opportunity. The quote is “On the surface of the great pearl he could see dreams from” (19). The quote means that with the pearl they could do things that they only thought of in their dreams. The pearl represents something else, which is evil. Everything that the family thought would be so good went downhill very fast. “He felt cloth, struck at it with his knife and missed, and struck again and felt his knife go through cloth” (37). Kino, the main character, is attacking someone trying to steal the pearl in the middle of the night....
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...values and – most importantly of all – prejudice. Prejudice exists because it is human nature to stereotype new people we meet based on race or how they look before getting to know them. The moral of the story can be summed up in the English proverb: “You should not judge a book by its cover”. Resources Our Story (2702 words) epub pdf read online Original Story epub pdf read online 1988 TV Drama watch online The words and expressions in our Simplified English version of the story which are not in our Pre-Intermediate Level 1800 word list are: avenue, belief, cabin, clasp, cocktail, cologne, compliment, cunning, deck, faint, fancy-dress, fierce, flash, flesh, fluency, humor, insult, Levantine, magnify, martini, modest, oriental, pearl, porthole, ready-made, talkative, thump, trunk, victory. Many English words have more than one meaning. There are several words in the story that are in our Pre-Intermediate level 1800 word list but are used in way that is different to their most common meaning. The words are: “ball”… a formal dance. (การเต้นรำ) “familiar”… used to describe someone who is too friendly and not respectful. (ที่สนิทสนม) “patience”… the British name for a card game played by one person; in America it is known as solitaire. (เล่นไพ่คนเดียว) “post”… one’s current job or duties in a company or organization (หน้าที่) “rubbish”… foolish talk; nonsense (ไร้สาระ) “trade”… the kind of business or occupation you do (อาชีพ) “wardrobe”… as well as meaning a...
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...Desire and Consequence in‘The Old Man and the Sea’ and ‘The Pearl’. Summary of stories: Steinbeck’s touchingly simple novella ‘The Pearl’ was written in 1945, and explores the destructive effect of capitalism on a traditional Mexican village, around the turn of the century. It tells the story of Kino, an Indian pearl diver who discovers a massive, beautiful, and extremely valuable pearl. The pearl fills Kino with a new desire to abandon his simple, idyllic life in favor of dreams of material and social advancement, dreams to give his son and wife everything they desire, but dreams that are oppressed by the social hierarchy of Kino’s village. Although Kino has discovered this beautiful pearl worth more than anything he has found before, it only leads to death and destruction and eventually leaves Kino and his wife with nothing, and their beloved son dead. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is another novella, the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. Written in 1952 by Ernest Hemingway, it was the last major work of the author before his suicide, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is the tale of a fruitless and ancient fisherman named Santiago. Santiago had spent eighty-four days without a catch, and, confident that his unproductive streak will come to an end, sets sail farther out than usual. He places his bait deep into the water and a few hours later an enormous marlin takes the bait, however...
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...Have you ever wished for something valuable, to get you out of a difficult situation? Yet, when you have it, you wish you never wished for it in the first place? Well, The Pearl written by John Steinbeck is a parable, a story that teaches a moral lesson. The focus of this novel is on a poor Indian family. The family consists of three members: Kino, a husband, father, and fisherman, Juana, his wife and loving mother; and Coyotito their infant son. This indigent family lives in a small brush hut along the Gulf of Mexico by the town of La Paz. One day a scorpion bites Coyotito; a scorpion sting can be deadly to a baby. Kino and Juana are very worried over the health of their baby; therefore, they hope to find a pearl worthy enough for the doctor’s payment to the doctor to treat Coyotito. With luck on their side, Kino finds a pearl the size of a seagull’s egg; he calls it “The Pearl of the World.” This novel like others is centered on a major theme; the theme of a literary work is defined as the main idea, concern or purpose about life that the author wants to convey to his or her reader. John Steinbeck in his novel The Pearl reveals the vital theme of Kino and his family’s struggle with greed and ambitious, meanwhile they had already had everything they needed it. Yet illustrates the readers a valuable lesson the character learn thought out the struggles Kino and Juana go through. Thanks to their desire on materials, they never needed in the first place. This major theme of...
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...Drew Forbes English 1 Honors 12/30/14 Theme Essay The Pearl Theme "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck is said to have many themes or lessons to it, but which was the main/most important one? I think the main theme in the book is greed. Kino defended his pearl from those who wanted it, killed people just so he can keep it safe, he also started thinking/acting differently because of the pearl. Lastly Kino's greed led him to kill his son, the one who he had many hopes and dreams for because of the pearl. An example of greed in the story is when people desire for the pearl was too great that they attempted to steal Kino's pearl but Kino defended it with his life, "But Juana's hand came creeping over to him in warning, and then the sound came again! the whisper of a foot on dry earth and the scratch of fingers in the soil" (Steinbeck 37). He also killed just to keep the pearl safe even though all of those around him told him it has brought evil, "He heard the rush, got his knife out and lunged at one dark figure and felt his knife go home, and then he was swept to his knees and swept again to the ground" (Steinbeck 59). Kino also stated how he has become every single man’s enemy, “Every man suddenly became related to Kino’s pearl, and Kino’s pearl went into the dreams, the spectacles, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wished, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man’s enemy”...
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...family? Greed? Pride? Fear? Make a case for one answer and provide references from the novel to back your position up. John Steinbeck, in his book “The Pearl”, showed us the history of Kino’s family. They faced a hard situation in which his son was stung by a scorpion and they didn’t have money to pay a doctor. Then, they found a big pearl and they would try to sell that to get money. In my opinion, this is the moment in which the history started to become hard for the Kino’s family because the feeling of greed and ambition drove Kino. After Kino finds the pearl, he just think in get a lot of money selling that. He also wishes in stay in a good financial situation. A passage that describes this is when Kino says “We will have new clothes” and “A rifle, perhaps a rifle”. The ambitions guide the man for always want more and more. Kino didn’t accept the low price that dealers offered, maybe he could take that money and pay a doctor for Coyotito but he didn’t, he was just thinking in money. Another factor that drove Kino was the greed for wealth. In the story, he did everything to don’t lose the pearl, until kill people. Before he gets the pearl, there was a family feeling, but after just a wish for materials goods. A passage that describes this is when the Kino’s wife, Juana, says “This thing is evil…This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us”. I think the moral of the history is that wealth is benignant for human; however is no a simony of happiness. If...
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