✰The Pearl Project✰ by Alyssa Smith https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm Made with an aura of mystery en-us 2019-11-15 14:40:14 UTC 2019-12-05 14:43:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1118663072/pearl_transparent_1inch_400x400.png ✰Plot✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411812949 ⁕Exposition ~ The story opens on a remote seaside village where a young family of 3 lives, Kino, Juana, and their infant Coyotito. Although they are poor, the family lives a relatively happy life.
⁕Rising Action ~ At home Juana prays that her husband will find  a pearl; bigger than any other and her prayers are answered. Kino finds such a large pearl that it attracts the attention for all the villagers. After Coyotito is cured, Juana and Kino ends up fighting off fees, robbers, and themselves when the greed and lust for the pearl become unbearable.
⁕ Climax ~ Kino kills a man for trying to steal his pearl that he had dropped. Juana, Coyotito, and Kino had to then go on the run for the capital so nobody would find out.
⁕ Falling Action ~ The family leaves to travel up the mountain to to the capital city. Kino realizes they are being followed and he tries to create lost trails for the trackers. When he finally finds the trackers he attempts to attack them. Yet, at the same moment, Coyotito and a gunshot are heard. After Kino kills the trackers and rushes back to the cave, he finds that his sun has been shot.
⁕Resolution ~ Carrying their dead child, they emerge from the mountain back at their village, where the community silently looks on. Kino then takes the pearl and throws it as hard as he can back into the ocean.
 ]]> 2019-11-15 14:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411812949 ✰Setting✰ alyssa_smith12 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411813379 ⁕In Chapter 2,  is in a the town which is located on the beach of an estuary; canoes can be seen coming in from Nayarit, which means we’re in Mexico and probably near the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
 ⁕''The town lay on a broad estuary, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the beach. And on the beach the white and blue canoes that came from Nayarit were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster whose making was a secret of the fishing people." 


]]> 2019-11-15 14:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411813379 ✰Irony✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411813612 ⁕Situational~When Kino finds the Pearl of the World, he hears "the music of the pearl" and expects his life to improve tremendously. "We will be married--in the church."
⁕Dramatic~Kino does not understand what the dealer's intentions really are when he tells Kino that the pearl is like fool's gold and is too large. However, the reader has seen that he prepares for Kino's visit in his physical appearance, and he has rolled a coin back and forward . ]]> 2019-11-15 14:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411813612 ✰Symbolism✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814152 ⁕Scorpion~The scorpion symbolizes the evil that is found in nature, which is seemingly arbitrary and unmotivated, in contrast to the evil that is found in mankind, which is generally the result of selfish desire and greed.
⁕Pearl ~  The Pearl represents wealth and evil. When Kino first finds the pearl, it is a symbol of hope and salvation. But like wealth, the pearl represents all the evil in the world. It seems all the greed and evil surfaces in the presence of wealth.
⁕Canoe~The Canoe represents Kino's culture. It was his grandpa's and that was Kino's way for providing food.

]]> 2019-11-15 14:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814152 ✰Figurative Language✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814259 ⁕ Simile~ "It was as large as a sea-gull's egg."---The author used this to describe how big the pearl was. ~ Chapter 2, page #4
⁕ Simile~ "...the great pearl, perfect as the moon." ---The author used this to describe how magnificent the pearl is and it's beauty. ~ Chapter 2, page #4
⁕ Personification~ "Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up."---The author used this to show that it was very early in the morning and the sun was still down, but coming up. ~ Chapter 2, page #1
⁕ Personification~ "...buildings hugging the beach."---The author used this to describe how the houses are on the beach like they are on the beach. ~ Chapter 2, page #1
⁕ Alliteration~ "He put back his head and howled."---The author used this to show what Kino was doing. ~ Chapter 2, page #4

]]> 2019-11-15 14:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814259 ✰Conflict✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814501 ⁕ External Conflict ~ When Coyotito knocked the scorpion into his box and got stung by it. ~ Nature ~ It's a problem in the story because Coyotito's family has to worry about saving their child which means they have to go to the doctor which Kino hates and the doctor hates and ask him for help.
⁕ Internal Conflict ~ When Juana had to decide whether to throw the pearl back into the ocean because it was evil or side with her husband and keep it. ~
Nature ~This is the problem of the story because Juana was not to get rid of the pearl because it has caused "evil" to their family and she wants it gone but Kino will not let her and he has become very dangerous and violent.]]> 2019-11-15 14:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814501 ✰Verbals✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814652 ⁕ Participle ~ "...it's old yellow plastered on the buildings..."
⁕Participle~ "Hey were high and graceful canoes with curving bow..."
⁕ Infinitive ~ " News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it."]]> 2019-11-15 14:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/411814652 ✰Theme/Moral/Parable✰ alyssa_smith12 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/413998162 ⁕The pearl is a parable that demonstrates the evils of greed and ambition. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito are a happy, but poor family until the discovery of the pearl throws them into the sudden possibility of wealth.]]> 2019-11-20 14:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/413998162 ✰Characters✰ ava_cox4 https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/419047126 ⁕ Kino ~ "I am a man" , which is describing Kino is a dignified, hardworking, impoverished native who works as a pearl diver. He is a simple man who lives in a brush house with his wife, Juana, and their infant son, Coyotito , both of whom he loves very much. He changed form being a man that wouldn't hurt anything but when he found the pearl he became a man that would come to any costs to protect his pearl, even if it means killing a man.
⁕ Juana ~"She, who was obedient and respectful and cheerful and patient, could bear physical pain with hardly a cry. She could stand fatigue and hunger almost better than Kino himself. In the canoe she was like a strong man." Juana is a loving, doting, easy-going wife, but when her family is threatened by the evil the  pearl is bringing to them, she shows her willingness to fight for her family. She changed from being a wife that stays in the shadow of her husband to then being someone who takes charge and is equal with her husband.]]> 2019-12-03 14:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alyssa_smith12/qbc1ln91hktm/wish/419047126