Themes Motifs Symbols. Quotes Chapter 6. The trackers whined a little, like excited dogs on a warming trail. Kino slowly drew his big knife to his hand and made it ready. He knew what he must do. Write your answer Related questions. In the book the pearls what do the pearl buyers symbolize? Why did John Steinbeck use a pearl to symbolize something in the book The Pearl?
What dreams does kino have for the pearl in the book the pearl? What does the gun symbolize in Steinbeck's The Pearl? What did the pearl symbolize in the book the pearl? Why did John Steinbeck use a scorpion to symbolize something in the book The Pearl?
What does a book symbolize? What does a oyster with pearl tattoo symbolize? What is the black pearl as symbolize of the pirates of carriabean1? What does juanas shawl Symbolize in the pearl? What does Pearl symbolize in The Scarlet Letter?
What does the scorpion symbolize in the pearl? What do the empty boots And Rifle and helmet lined up in rows symbolize? What is the tone of the book the pearl? What do piggy's glasses symbolize in lord of the flies? What does the mirror symbolize in the book Speak? What is the book Pearl Harbor about? What are the Differences between the pearl movie and book?
What does book symbolize? Was the pearl evil in the book the pearl by John Steinbeck? Steinbeck tells us that it was late in the afternoon when they arrived back in town. They were walking side by side, rather than in single file, as is customary.
Their suffering has removed traditional barriers and has made them equal. Kino carries a long rifle across his arm, and Juana carries a "small limp heavy bundle," a bundle which holds Coyotito's dead body.
Her face is "hard and lined and leathery with fatigue. They walk through the town and through the village like well-made wooden dolls, neither glancing in either direction nor greeting any of the villagers. When they come to the beach, Kino removes the pearl and stares at its surface; there, he sees all of the evil that has happened to him — "in the surface of the pearl he [sees] Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot way.
It sinks into the water and settles down to the sandy bottom among the waving branches of the water plants. In this final chapter of the novel, Steinbeck begins his narrative by having his characters make an exodus from the town, and he ends the chapter and the novel with the return of the travelers to the town, thus making the chapter circular in structure.
Furthermore the entire chapter is circular in motion since the central part of the chapter emphasizes the various circular motions that Kino undertakes to elude the trackers.
At the beginning of the chapter, Kino is very determined that he will save his Pearl of the World. As Steinbeck indicates, there is something primitive in Kino as he is determined, at first, to protect his pearl at all costs. Steinbeck also seems to be implying that as society turns against Kino and tries to rob him of his pearl, then Kino must become more like an animal. In this short story, the young native is forced to kill a man who threatens his life; he is then pursued by a posse, and he, like Kino, becomes gradually more and more like a hunted animal; and whereas in The Pearl, the pursuers are never identified, remaining always a dark, remote force of evil, likewise, in the story "Flight," the posse is never seen or identified — it always remains a distant, threatening force which ultimately kills the young man.
The change in Kino from a man into an animal is indicated by the changing meanings of the pearl and other things important to Kino. For example, when Kino looks into the pearl to find the visions he first saw in it, the evil which the pearl has brought has distorted the visions so that a bad image is substituted for each of the original good images.
The gleaming rifle becomes a murdered man; the wedding in the church becomes Juana's beaten face. Coyotito's education becomes the baby's sick and fevered face. The music of the pearl becomes the music of evil. Notice that these ideas are expressed in a one-to-one relationship.
As the trackers track down Kino and Juana, Kino becomes more like a wild animal. He and his family are no longer a part of a safe community; instead, they become objects of a primitive hunt. The ground which they cross is barren and dry while their destination, the mountain, is cool and welcoming. There is clearly a symbolic identification with death sterility, desert heat, and dehydration and life fertility, life-giving moisture, and coolness.
Thus, there is an ironic reversal in that they find death, not life, in the mountains. This supports the irony that the great pearl brings evil and disaster, not happiness. Outside of town, they follow a road, carefully walking in a wheel rut to conceal their tracks. They walk all night and make camp in a roadside shelter at sunrise. After eating a small breakfast, Juana rests until midday. Kino spots a cluster of ants and lays down his foot as an obstacle. The ants climb over it, and he keeps his foot in place and watches them scale it.
When Juana rises, she asks Kino if he thinks they will be pursued. Kino stares at the pearl to read his future. He lies to Juana, telling her that he sees a rifle, a marriage in a church, and an education for Coyotito.
The family retreats farther into the shade for another rest. While Kino sleeps soundly, Juana is restless.
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