Student First & Last Name

The Pearl Literary Analysis Folder Requirements

Cover Page

- Title

- Author

- Student first & last name

1 – 3 Background Information

- Notes from Google Slides presentation (still available on your Google Drive)

- At least two (2) facts from each slide

- Parable

- Allegory

- Spanish colonization of Mexico

- Pearls

- Pearling

- Importance of songs

- Poverty

- Greed

4 Setting

- Notes from Google Slides presentation (still available on your Google Drive)

- At least two (2) facts from each slide

- Baja

- La Paz

5 Characters – descriptions of each character (can be in list form)

- Kino

- Juana

- Coyotito

- Doctor

- Priest

- Pearl buyers

- Juan Tomas

- Neighbors

- Trackers

6 Point of View (POV) & Author’s Tone

- Tone Analysis paragraph (will be done in class week of 3/23)

- Brief statement of point of view used by Steinbeck and how you know

7 Figurative Language – Two (2) quotations as examples for each type

- Simile

- Metaphor

- Personification

- Hyperbole

8 Symbolism

Chart with literal and symbolic meanings of :

- Scorpions

- Oceans

- Canoes

- Villages

9 Symbolism of Pearl

Cut-and-paste notes

- Symbol of beauty