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    The Pearl Women

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    every great man‚ there is an even greater women‚” explains the role of women in John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. This short story was written in 1947 and reflects the thinking of a man during this time period. Kino‚ who is a poor pearl diver in a small town finds a pearl so great that he and his family would be set for life. But‚ the pearl ends up bringing more pain than hope to his family. Juana‚ Kino’s wife‚ watches as her husband gets more paranoid and cautious the longer they have the pearl. Juana’s

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    poverty and constant suffering‚ leaving families in the depths of despair with very little hope. In the short story The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings‚ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ the family of Pelayo and Elisenda are poverty stricken and have a very ill son. Pelayo and Elisenda have no source of income to nurture the son until the family discovers a very old‚ sickly man on the beach with enormous‚ damaged wings on his back. In this situation‚ the family‚ and townspeople in general‚ cannot recognize

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    The Pearl Interpretive

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    The Pearl‚ Interpretive Essay In The Pearl‚ the author‚ John Steinbeck‚ uses the pearl to express what human nature is like. At the beginning of the novel‚ the pearl that Kino finds is described as large as being incandescent and as "perfect as the moon"; by the end of the novel‚ the pearl that Kino finds is described as "ugly‚ gray‚ like a malignant growth." In general‚ mankind is greedy and evil. In the novel‚ Steinbeck throughout the entire story‚ in my opinion‚ is trying to say that human nature

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    Pearl Harbor

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    Japanese were able to carry out this terrible attack‚ which crippled the United States’ Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. In 1887‚ the United States government obtained exclusive use of the inlet called Pearl Harbor‚ and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships. The area was established as a naval base in 1908‚ and then in 1911 dredging of a channel from the sea was completed‚ across a sandbar and a coral reef at the mouth of the harbor. This made that channel accessible

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    Pearl Harbor

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    I (a sansei) thought I would pass along some brief thoughts on the movie "Pearl Harbor‚" which I saw Friday. Mostly‚ it was innocuous in a thoroughly Hollywood way. Which is to say‚ it truly is (as Disney hyped) a love story‚ framed around the attack‚ which is really just a plot device and an excuse for typical Bruckheimer explosions and fireballs. The film is not about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In fact‚ with more than 45 minutes left after the attack‚ the rest of the film takes a long

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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s unintentional placement of the reader in the protagonist’s role in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings reveals more about the reader than it discloses

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    Trickster: Old Man Coyote vs. Legba The trickster breaks rules of the gods or nature which in the end may have a positive effect. In many cases the rule breaking performed by these folks are often the reason they are in the form of tricks. The role tricksters often play may intend cunning or foolish actions‚ many times both. Depending on society their actions can be humorous even if it is sacred or cultural. In the trickster myths Shoshoni: Old Man Coyote and Fon (Dahomey): Legba the main characters

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    The Symbolism of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” An allegory is a method in which characters or events symbolize ideas and concepts; it is a way of explaining concepts which cannot be easily explained‚ by telling a story which has a deeper meaning. The underlying meaning of an allegory has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance‚ and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas‚ like charity‚ greed‚ or envy. With this in mind‚ symbolism is the art of using an object or

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    today ’s society‚ the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is perceived to be more of an adult fable‚ but there are many morals in this story that not only adults should read‚ but children as well. In this story‚ there is an “angel” that lands in Pelayo’s and Elisenda’s yard that was said to have fallen out of the sky. The neighbor determines that this is an angel because of the wings on the old man. As the story unravels‚ the couple then takes the old man in and places him into their chicken

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    “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez and “Indian Education” written by Sherman Alexie. Both stories deal with prejudice and discrimination as an underlying tone in their stories. Gabriel Garcia Máquez handles prejudice and discrimination by writing about an “angel” that ends up in an unexpecting family’s backyard‚ having the story be about how the family and the town treat/view the ‘angel’. Sherman Alexie handles the tone of

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