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	Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One example of this is when Kino looks into the pearl and sees what he thinks is the glimmer of a great pearl, but because of the darkness inside the oyster shell, he later thinks the pearl is an illusion.
		This is because the pearl buyer is part of a scheme to cheat all the pearl divers out of their money, and his jolly, happy exterior is an illusion.
		In the novel, light is a symbol for good, and dark is a symbol for evil.
	www.dcs.edu /opnet/langarts/thepearl/Light/page1.htm (831 words)

	The Pearl
		When Kino presents the pearl to the dealers they tell him it is too large to sell.
		As he approaches the "maybe pearl" while he is diving, he hears its "secret melody." The music of the pearl is at first quiet and secret; later, as Kino thinks of all the wonderful things it can provide, its music is "shrilling with triumph." The pearl's song, like the life of the family, is changing.
		Discuss the pearl, the doctor, the priest, the pearl dealers.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /reading/activity/3760.html (3303 words)

	Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil! Pearl Buck Biography
		In essays, lectures, and novels, she was an active supporter of the Chinese in their war against Japenese invasion.
		Along with her tireless efforts on behalf of the Chinese, Pearl was also active in the campaigns for African-American civil rights, the equal rights ammendment, and a nuclear test ban.
		Pearl lived half her lifetime in the East, half in the West.
	www.orlok.com /cyberbil/pearl2/pbbio.html (576 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About The Pearl
		John Steinbeck wrote The Pearl during the time in which he was at the height of his fame.
		Steinbeck wrote The Pearl based on his personal convictions, and based the story on the biblical parable of a ?pearl of great price.' In this story, a jewel for which the merchant trades everything he owns becomes the metaphor for Heaven.
		The Pearl derives much of its force from the descriptions of the impoverished lifestyle of the Mexicans of La Paz, the location of the story.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/pearl/about.html (425 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Pearl:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Just before writing this novel, John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts were exploring the seacoast in terms of the ecological functions of the various organisms that existed there.
		Philosophically, the novel is concerned with life and death and the meaning of both.
		Their pearl is supposed to be used to bring their child out of darkness and into the world of light; he will be able to learn to read and write, and he will then be able to help all of the natives.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-141,pageNum-2.html (638 words)

	NovelGuide: The Pearl: Novel Summary: Chapter 2
		A pearl forms in an oyster when a grain of sand irritates the oyster's flesh until the oyster forms a protective shell around the irritation.
		The narrator’s description of pearls as the accidental byproducts of the irritation caused by a grain of sand in an oyster muscle, serves to establish the cause for their rarity and thus their value.
		Just like the pearl was a kind of seed embedded in the oyster, so now are Kino’s dreams of a new life embedded in his psyche because of the pearl.
	www.novelguide.com /ThePearl/summaries/Chapter2.html (1055 words)

	Free Essay Symbolism in The Pearl by John Steinbeck
		In John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl, a young couple and their baby's peaceful lives are dramatically changed after the discovery of a pearl of great value.
		Therefore, in the novel, symbolism is evident in the characters, colors, and animals and objects.
		In the novel The Pearl, it contained a great amount of symbolism, which is hidden in the tome's characters, colors, animals, and objects.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25999 (816 words)

	NovelGuide: The Pearl: Essay Q&A
		After discovering of the pearl, however, Kino begins to dream of possibilities for his family, most notably an education for his son, that were previously unthinkable.
		The image of his son receiving an education is replaced by an image of the boy's dead body; similarly, the image of Kino and Juana being married in the church is replaced by an image of her bruised and swollen face after he has beaten her.
		That she insists that he be the one to throw the pearl into the sea indicates that she remains faithful to their previous way of life and, as she has always done, seeks to preserve it.
	www.novelguide.com /ThePearl/essayquestions.html (865 words)

	Amazon.com: Pearl: A Novel: Books: Mary Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pearl asks this question as she is lying in a hospital bed in Belfast after starving herself for six weeks and chaining herself to a flag pole.
		This is a novel that explores the role of beauty and art, religion, political action and the relationship of mother and daughter.
		Pearl, a student of language, believes that her death will be the ultimate sentence, the viable only sentence she can offer in the name of her despair.
	www.amazon.com /Pearl-Novel-Mary-Gordon/dp/037542315X (3172 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pearl Diver: A Novel: Books: Jeff Talarigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium.
		When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is banished to Nagashima, an island leprosarium, where she is told to change her name and forget her past.
		The novel is divided into three sections, with the middle (and by far most substantial) section revealing its story through artifacts, as each object evokes a haunting, smaller story.
	www.amazon.com /Pearl-Diver-Novel-Jeff-Talarigo/dp/0385510519 (1596 words)

	NovelGuide: The Pearl: Novel Summary: Chapter 3
		The doctor hears of the pearl while sitting with a wealthy patient and claims that he is treating Kino's son for a scorpion bite.
		The pearl buyers, all of whom work for the same man, know that Kino will bring the pearl to one of them and though they will only make their normal salary on the transaction each dreams of taking their boss' place.
		Juana cleans Kino's bleeding wound and sensing the hatred growing in her husband she insists that the pearl is evil and should be destroyed before it destroys the family.
	www.novelguide.com /ThePearl/summaries/Chapter3.html (1223 words)

	Nacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In these mollusks, nacre is continually deposited onto the inner surface of the animal's shell (the iridescent nacreous layer, commonly known as mother of pearl), both as a means to smooth the shell itself and as a defense against parasitic organisms and damaging detritus.
		Chief sources are the pearl oyster, found in warm and tropical seas, primarily in Asia; freshwater pearl mussels, which live in many rivers of the United States, Europe, and Asia; and the abalone of California, Japan, and other Pacific regions.
		Mother of pearl tesserae may be cut into artistic shapes and be laminated to ceramic tile and surrounded by numerous coats of colored lacquer to create an artistic design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_of_pearl (758 words)

	NovelGuide: The Pearl: Novel Summary: Chapter 5
		Juana's attempt to throw the pearl into the sea demonstrates the depth of her conviction that the pearl, far from a source of wealth and prosperity, is actually a thing of evil.
		Significantly, it is Juana who saves the pearl, drags the dead man into the bushes, insists that they leave immediately and retrieves Coyotito from the burning hut all of which make possible the family's continued survival.
		Kino's attachment to the pearl is revealed in his state of helplessness when he believes it to have been stolen and his confession to his brother that it has become one with his soul.
	www.novelguide.com /ThePearl/summaries/Chapter5.html (887 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - THE PEARL by John Steinbeck
		But the promise of wealth manifests the archetypal evil hidden in the community's unconscious, like the pearl that had lain hidden in its oyster at the bottom of the sea.
		The Grapes of Wrath and The Pearl are also linked by their female characters and the questions they raise about gender roles and family identity.
		Confined to her husband's home, and never given a name in the novel, Curley's wife functions almost as a force of nature, precipitating the events that wreck the men's "best laid schemes," as poet Robert Burns wrote.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/pearl1.asp (1292 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pearl: Books: John Steinbeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In intimate, whispery tones Elizondo relates the tragic tale of how a priceless pearl brings greed, treachery and loss to a poor Mexican pearl diver, his wife and their infant son.
		The pearl describes how one thing can change a persons life the pearl(the book) explains how greed, evil and hope can be mixed togther and come out in a negitive way.
		The pearl is a sad book because it is Kinos fault Coyotito dies its a very well written and powerful book.
	www.amazon.com /Pearl-John-Steinbeck/dp/014017737X (2356 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics): Books: John Steinbeck,Jose Clemente Orozco,Linda Wagner-Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is a story about a great pearl, a Mexican community, and great dreams and powers in a novel of largesse and quiet profundity.
		Kino is a Mexican pearl fisher in the Gulf of California.
		Steinbeck uses the story of the pearl to illustrate how difficult it can be to change the course of our lives, and how if we try to break out of the unwritten consensus which governs our daily lives, things can not only become lonely but also dangerous, as Kino discovers to his great cost.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Pearl-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141185120 (1301 words)

	"The Pearl"
		I say this because at the beginning before he finds the pearl, he is just a simple and honest fisherman and then when he finds the pearl he started protecting it so much from everybody that he killed a man, his kid, and beat up his own wife.
		Also like when his wife started running with the pearl to sea with the intention of throwing it in the sea and Kino chased her down and when he got to her.
		Also when he went to the pearl buyers to sell the pearl and they were trying to trick him and he said that he was going to the capital to sell the pearl instead of the town and he would sell it at a good price.
	campus.fortunecity.com /earlham/769/report_ii.htm (432 words)

	The Pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This emotionally moving book is about a pearl fisher whose name is Kino, his wife, Juana, their baby boy Coyotito, the village community they live in, and the evli minded and greedy people of the town.
		She would rather be por than to have evil coming into her family because of a big pearl that Kino had fished.
		In the book, a thief tries to steal the pearl and is killed in the process, and the baby boy, Coyotito, is also killed by bounty hunters.
	www.etsu.edu /educator/us/Blakely/thepearl.html (473 words)

	pearl earrings teardrop novel the pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		pearl earrings teardrop do that they are dissipations of energy, and quiet reigned for an hour or two.
		he was a, pearl earrings teardrop their own farms or in "the shanties" they cut sawlogs, heard shooting around, The responsibility is individual.
	www.mauideluxe.homestead.com /pearl-earrings-teardrop (510 words)

	The pearl
		The novel Syysprinssi ('Autumn prince', WSOY) by Anja Snellman (formerly Kauranen) has been published as Sügisprints; the translator is Agni Kaldma and the publisher Valgus of Tallinn.
		The novel Ukkosenjumalan poika ('Son of the Thundergod', WSOY) by Arto Paasilinna has been published as Der Sohn des Donnergottes; the translator is Stefan Moster and the publisher Ehrenwirth of Munich.
		A novel by Leena Lander, Tulkoon myrsky ('May the storm come' WSOY) has been published as Venga la tempesta; the translators are Ernesto and Jari Boella.
	www.lib.helsinki.fi /bff/499/newtrans.html (704 words)

	The Pearl (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pearl is a 1947 novella by John Steinbeck.
		It tells the story of a poor Mexican who finds a magnificent pearl which he hopes will improve his family's life; however, he finds that his new wealth brings only corruption of the soul and the blinding luxuries of 'civilized' life.
		In the intervening period, Coyotito grows violently ill. Kino decides to bury the pearl under the floor in a corner of the brush house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Pearl_(novel) (841 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
		Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story behind the advent of this famous painting, all the while depicting life in 17th century Delft, a small Dutch city with a burgeoning art community.
		The novel centers on Griet, the Protestant daughter of a Delft tile painter who lost his sight in a kiln accident.
		The novel both recognizes the painting's historic and artistic intensity and monopolizes on that intensity to create a fascinating story of a young girl in a small city during a unique period of time.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/girl_with_a_pearl_earring.asp (927 words)

	World's Greatest Classic Books - The Pearl
		Inspired by the legend, Steinbeck published The Pearl in a magazine in 1945 under the title “The Pearl of the World.” The story was so successful that in 1947 it was published as a book and adapted as a film.
		They give voice to the “struggle” theme of his novels- namely, the struggle between the poor and the wealthy, the weak and the strong, and between different types of civilization (for instance, European and Mexican).
		After the success of the novel Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck’s financial worries were over, and his fame as a writer was clinched in 1937 when Of Mice and Men appeared.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/quickstep/1103/book92.htm (1368 words)

	Perla, La (1947) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fate, on the other hand, intervenes as the beautiful pearl becomes the object of desire for the ruthless dealers, and the doctor, who want to steal it from Quino.
		In a sequence that is as cruel, as it is beautiful, we see the fishers being pursued by the dealer and his Indian searchers, and the doctor through the mangroves first, and the arid countryside later on.
		Unfortunately, Quino and Juana are robbed of something more precious than the magnificent pearl that has been the object of their downfall.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0037981 (650 words)

	Review \| The Pearl of Kuwait by Tom Paine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Pearl of Kuwait appears at a particularly awkward time, of course.
		I finished The Pearl of Kuwait precisely one day before coalition bombs started raining on Baghdad, and so I had no grim battlefield images to offset the jaunty, jocular tone the book adopts from the first paragraph.
		Re-reading the novel now might leave a bittersweet taste in my mouth.
	janmag.com /fiction/pearlofkuwait.html (699 words)

	Amazon.com: Girl with a Pearl Earring: Books: Tracy Chevalier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
		Through the eyes of its protagonist, the modest daughter of a tile maker who in 1664 is forced to work as a maid in the Vermeer household because her father has gone blind, Chevalier presents a marvelously textured picture of 17th-century Delft.
		She describes with exquisite sensitivity, and yet with the minimalism one might expect of Hemmingway, the ambiance of a Dutch society where stoic restraint dictates silence, and where social control is achieved with knowing glances and unspoken understandings.
	www.amazon.com /Girl-Pearl-Earring-Tracy-Chevalier/dp/0452282152 (3052 words)

	John Steinbeck the Pearl
		Their only hope is to find a pearl of great enough price with which to pay the doctor...and as fortune would have it...
		Word of their find spreads like a grass fire through the village and reaches the doctor, who is now more than glad to help and who tricks them into thinking they still need his remedy.
		Instead of a blessing...the pearl in John Steinbeck The Pearl brings trouble never before encountered for this simple family, or this quiet village.
	www.karipearls.com /John-Steinbeck-The-Pearl.html (1090 words)

	The Pearl: Theme of Greed free essays
		Ever since the finding of the pearl, it appears to me that the greed of man had grown readily throughout time.
		When the news of the pearl reached the town, everybody starts to fantasize and dream of the “impossible’.
		We could see the power of “the pearl”, the power of wealth and the greed of the people.
	www.needfreeessays.com /viewpaper/604.html (211 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Pearl: Books: John Steinbeck,Jose Clemente Orozco,Linda Wagner-Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This pearl could be the thing that could bring Kino out of poverty and create a better life for his family.
		In desperation for money, Kino goes out to the pearl ridges to find a pearl to pay for his son's treatment and while he is there he finds the biggest white pearl ever found.
		John Steinback's novel, The Pearl is a perfect example of life's ups and downs.
	www.amazon.ca /Pearl-John-Steinbeck/dp/0140187383 (1733 words)

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