The Pearl Ch. 6 Reading Log Due Wed.

The Pearl

Chapter 6 Reading Log

1. Examine the image of ants on Page 68. What do you think it symbolizes? How does it connect to the earlier nature motif in the novel?

2. What convinces Kino that the pearl was not valueless as Juana suggested to him?

3. Examine the passage when Kino is looking into the pearl. Page 69. What is being foreshadowed vs. what he is declaring to Juana?

4. What does juxtaposition mean? How are two ideas juxtaposed in this passage?

5. On page 75 how does Juana’s usual subservient relationship with Kino change?

6. What was Kino’s plan of action when they’re in the cave?  

7. What happens at the final climax?

8. How is the story resolved?

9. What is the greater message of this parable?

10. What would you identify as the central conflict in this story? (Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Himself). List below how each one of these conflicts is active in the novel.