Homework: Please Answer Each Question Thoroughly. Unless Otherwise Noted, Please Use Complete

Name: ______Date: ______Pd. ____

Chapter 6

Homework: Please answer each question thoroughly. Unless otherwise noted, please use complete sentences and incorporate the question in your answer. The Pearl is online if you need to re-read any parts of the chapter. If you need the link, go to the English 8 page on my website.

1. Climax: What happens to Coyotito?

2. Author’s Purpose: Why does Steinbeck include this event (question #1)? What impact does it have on the reader?

3. Resolution: What do Juana and Kino do with the pearl? Why? Do you agree with their decision? If not, what would you do?

4. Symbolism: What does the return of Kino and Juana and their throwing away the pearl mean symbolically?

Name: ______Date: ______Pd. ____ Chapter 6 Select a quotation from Chapter 6 that you feel is evidence of one of the following themes from The Pearl. Through the use of commentary (two sentence minimum), explain how the quote you selected is evidence of the theme you selected. This is due at the end of the period when you leave.

1. The desire for money corrupts and destroys. 2. Love can give someone great courage and Direct Quote and Page Number strength. 3. Knowledge is power, but a power that can be Find a quote that supports one of the six theme abused. statements. 4. A dream is good until it begins destroying other things of value in a person’s life. 5. There are more illusions than reality (things are not always what they seem). 6. Creatures naturally prey on those that are weaker than themselves.

Quote: Supports theme # _____ because… ______

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(Steinbeck ______) Put your Post-its from Chapter 6 in the space below. You need at least 12. Remember page numbers!