The Pearl Chapters 1-2 Reading Log- Due Tues. Nov. 18th

The Pearl

Chapters 1-2 Reading Log

Due Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Please answer the question in complete sentences. Questions are 10 pts. each. (Graded on depth, accuracy, basic spelling/ punctuation, neatness, and adherence to the deadline.) 

1.     Describe some of the first sounds Kino hears when he first wakes up.  What sounds then make up the Song of the Family for him?

2.     What two events does Kino witness that show nature’s detachment or unsympathetic essence?

3.     Why is it significant that Juana asks for the doctor?

4.     What special knowledge do the beggars know?

5.     Describe the “city of stone and plaster.” How is it different from Kino’s village?

6.     How is the following description of the doctor paradoxical?

“They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins” (9).

7.     Describe the doctor (p.10).

8.     What does the doctor imply when he says, “Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for ‘little Indians?’ I am a doctor, not a veterinary.”

9.     Why does the servant shut the door “…quickly out of shame”?

10.  For what does Juana pray? How might this be a problematic choice?

11.  What song does Kino hear while hunting for oysters?

12.  What do you think Kino’s canoe symbolizes?

13.  How does Kino change once he finds the pearl?

14.  Using your definition of colonialism. How do you think this applies to Kino and the doctor? (google colonialism Stanford: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/ )

15.  Reread the passage on page 16 about the process of a pearl being made. How could the notion of this beautiful gem being created by accident or due to a mistake be applied as a metaphor for a human experience?