The Pearl Chapter 1-2 Literary Elements

Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug... (A similar thing will happen to Kino later in the book.)

• paradox

• irony

• imagery

• foreshadowing

Colonial society’s oppression of native cultures.

• parable

• theme

• tone

• setting

Kino’s songs; nature imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• motif

• mood

"She looked up at him, her eyes as cold as the eyes of a lioness."

• symobolism

• simile

• situational irony

• style

It (the canoe) was a bulwark (wall of defense) against starvation.

• simile

• mood

• motif

• metaphor

Fiddler crabs bubbled and sputtered in their holes in the sand, and in the shallows little lobsters popped in and in and out of their tiny homes in the rubble and sand.

• style

• mood

• personification

• conflict

The narrator focuses on Kino’s thoughts and feelings, but sometimes switches to Juana or the doctor. She/he also gives opinions about what’s happening.

• mood

• tone

• 3rd person omniscient

• syntax

The beach was yellow sand, but at the water;s edge a rubble of shell and algae took its place.

• theme

• motif

• diction

• imagery

"Across the brush fence were other brush houses and the smoke came from them too..."

• symbolism

• setting

• simile

• style

"This doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised kino's race..."

• protaganist

• antagonist

• conflict

• paradox