Jan 3, 2010

The Pearl | The Pearl

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Author: John Steinbeck
First Published: 1945
Type of Work: Novella
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: A five-day period in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Setting: Baja California, Mexico
Genres: Short fiction, Parable
Subjects: Tradition, Superstition, Prejudices or antipathies, Native Americans or American Indians, Creoles, Good and evil, Greed, Mexico or Mexicans, Church or churches
Locales: Baja California, Mexico

Characters Discussed

Kino, a young Mexican-Indian pearl diver at the peak of his physical powers. With black, unruly hair, keen dark eyes, and a coarse, ragged mustache, Kino is lithe and strong, able to gather oysters underwater for a full two minutes without surfacing and to move about, catlike and undetected, in the dark and on rough terrain. Devoted to his wife, Juana, and his infant son, Coyotito, and proud of his position as head of his family and initially content with the traditional life of his ancestors, Kino has dreams and needs that are at first simple. When he...

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The Pearl | The Pearl

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Characters Discussed

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