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The dragon's pearl
During a terrible drought, a cheerful, dutiful son finds a magic pearl which forever changes his life and the lives of his mother and neighbors.
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The Pearl - Literature Kit Gr. 7-8
In this State Standards-aligned Literature Kit(TM), we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The Pearl tells the story of a man who tries to save his son, and finds the pearl that will help him do it. Kino's son Coyotito is stung by a scorpion. After the doctor denies to treat him, Kino finds a large pearl that he hopes to use as payment. News gets around and many people begin to want the pearl for themselves. One night, Kino is attacked and decides then and there to get rid of the pearl. He attempts to sell it at an auction that turns out to be a sham. Determined to get good money for the wondrous pearl, Kino decides to try his luck in the capital. During his journey, greed gets a hold of Kino. More and more dangers surround the family, until Kino is finally free from the cursed pearl. The Pearl is a story that explores evil, greed and man's nature. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.
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All Men Are Brothers: Pearl S. Buck’s Translation of Shui Hu Zhuan and its Effects on Her Writing Career
In her article \"All Men Are Brothers: Pearl S. Buck's Translation of Shui Hu Zhuan and its Effects on Her Writing Career,\" Zhihui Sophia Geng focuses on Pulitzer Prize winner and Noble Laureate Pearl Sydenstricker Buck's All Men Are Brothers, her translation of the classical Chinese novel Shui Hu Zhuan. She examines the reception of her translation and analyzes the significance of All Men Are Brothers to Buck's literary career. By providing the first complete translation of Shui Hu Zhuan to an English-speaking audience, Buck made a significant cultural contribution to the United States and English-speaking cultural spheres. The panoramic Shui Hu Zhuan showcases a drastically different way of writing from a long and dynamic Chinese literary tradition. Immersion in Shui Hu Zhuan nurtured Buck's sympathy towards the common people and is instrumental in her choice to focus on the Chinese peasantry as the subject matter of her writing. This keen insight is indispensable to her creation of ground-breaking works such as The Good Earth. In addition, Buck's reading of classical Chinese fiction had a considerable effect on her prose style. Buck proudly declared that the Chinese novel \"has an illumination for the Western novel and for the Western novelist,\" and her success as a novelist, in turn, affirms the worthiness of this tradition.
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The thirteenth pearl
Asked to locate a stolen necklace of unusual value, Nancy soon discovers that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft.
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The Problem of Sacrifice in Mary Gordon’s Final Payments
This article examines how Mary Gordon’s Final Payments (1978) represents a transition in the portrayal of sacrifice in Catholic fiction from pre-1965 works by Mauriac, Greene, and O’Connor to more contemporary ones. Further, when read in dialogue with the concerns of prominent feminist theologians, the novel’s uniqueness comes into sharper focus. Against this backdrop, Final Payments prefigures more recent contemporary Catholic novels that also explore the theme of sacrifice, but with even greater ambiguity. Final Payments thereby both responds to earlier Catholic fiction as well as foreshadows the works of subsequent decades.
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Pearl and the Fairies of Romance
This article focuses on the parallels that can be drawn between the characters and landscapes of the fourteenth-century Pearl poem and the fairy characters and otherworlds that frequently appear in works of medieval romance. It argues that the Pearl-poet is consciously engaging with readily identifiable fairy themes and motifs, made popular through a wide range of romances and other sources, in order to help propagate a certain ambiguity within the poem: one that feeds into the broader epistemological themes that are present within the text. More specifically, this article shows that the poet’s manipulation of these motifs forms part of the broader unraveling of the poem, in which both the dreamer’s and the reader’s ability to comprehend the nature of the vision develops as the poem progresses. Drawing on two works in particular, the fourteenth-century alliterative romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chrétien de Troyes’s twelfth-century French romance Le Conte du Graal, this article argues that Pearl parallels these texts in the way that they utilize otherworldly conventions to inhibit both the protagonist’s and the reader’s ability to rationalize the events taking place within the poem. By identifying the poet’s use of fairy conventions in Pearl, a poem that consistently draws attention to the limits of human knowledge, this article examines, from a fresh perspective, the poet’s exploration of ineffability and of the divide between material and spiritual modes of existence.
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Back with Butterflies: (Post-)World War II Fiction of Américo Paredes
This manuscript examine Paredes's short stories set in Japan immediately after WWII, which depict interracial relationships between Mexican American soldiers and Japanese women. As opposed to many white-authored mainstream narratives which often emphasize the war's end with its depictions of romantic relationships between white soldiers and Japanese women, Paredes's stories satirically expose the issue of racism, sexism, and imperialism in such relationships to claim that the war was continuing throughout the occupation. This article analyzes two stories, unpublished \"21,000 Ping Pong Balls: A Story of the American Occupation of Japan,\" archived at University of Texas, and \"Getting an Oboe for Joe\" from The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories (1994).
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Flyin’ High in Flyin’ West
Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West (1994) is widely produced in university and professional theaters. The play, originally commissioned by the Alliance Theatre in 1992, is a work of historical fiction that focuses on the lives of African American women homesteaders in the late 1800s. In this article, I argue that a thorough comprehension of Black feminist and womanist aesthetics is essential to producing an affecting and accurate representation of this story of survival and the pursuit of joy. I illustrate how this perspective informed the concept, casting, and design of my 2014 production of the play at the University of Georgia. By highlighting intersecting themes at the center of the story—woman kinship, Blackness, whiteness, racism, sexism, domestic abuse, landownership, and freedom—I argue that a Black feminist and womanist praxis is necessary to best produce Cleage’s popular melodrama.
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Translating Steinbeck
Though John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl is based on an anecdote he supposedly heard in Baja, Mexico, during his trip with Ed Ricketts to the Sea of Cortez, in order to transmute the tale from a brief, Spanish-language story into an English-language novel meant for an American reader, he had to both convince the reader of the story's “Mexican-ness” and provide a “domesticated” story for Americans. To do so, he employs expeditionaries' and translators' techniques as well as the novelist's empathy.
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