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Chapter 6 Questions for Discussion
1. Examine the image of ants on Page 70.
• What’s going on?
• What does it mean?
• How does it connect to the earlier nature motif in the novel?
2. “Perhaps the dealers were right and the pearl has no value. Perhaps this has all been an illusion” (71):
• value- What does this mean in this context?
• illusion- What does this mean in this context?
• What does this statement mean from Juana?
• valueless- next paragraph – what does value + less mean, literally? What does it mean here? Could it potentially have a double meaning?
3. Examine the looking into the pearl. Page 71:
• What is being foreshadowed vs. what he is declaring to Juana?
• What does juxtaposition mean? How are two ideas juxtaposed in this passage?
• How does the music of the pearl change after the premonitions?
4. Who was following Kino and Juana?
5. How does Juana’s usual subservient relationship with Kino change?
6. What are the meanings of the following motifs?
• Bottom of 79 – little pools
• Bottom of 80 – ants
8. Bottom of 81- what is foreshadowed?
9. What was Kino’s plan of action when they’re in the cave?
10. What happens at the final climax?
11. How is the story resolved?
12. Is this the resolution you were hoping for?
13. What is the greater message of this parable?
14. If you could rewrite the ending, what would it be?
15. What would you identify as the central conflict in this story? (Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Himself)
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