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Tag Archives: Steinbeck
LITERATURE & EDUCATION: The Pearl – Teaching Literature
Investigating the topic of my last post a bit further by googling just as had the googler below, I follow some links to some happy discoveries: Teacher directions to sixth and seventh graders at two different schools regarding their upcoming … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Pearl Finale
So to prove the moral, the story follows along to destroy the family of Kino and the pearl is shown to have caused devastation and death. Hmmph. This parable is a common one; wealth is the root of all evil. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Pearl Metaphor
Perhaps I have found some reason, some justification for my thoughts on the moral of this fable: Everything that loved water came to these few shallow places. The cats took their prey there, and strewed feathers and lapped water through … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Pearl
I do like the book, but I’m not getting the underlying theme perhaps of wealth being evil–unless I’m misunderstanding the lesson, being of different mind. It is human nature that can be evil. Once again, Juana, sure that the pearl … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Pearl – Moral
Steinbeck’s The Pearl is a fable, therefore a moral of some sort is a part of the deal, and one that reflects human nature in its struggle between good and evil. The pearl that Kino, the protagonist, finds is of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Steinbeck’s The Pearl
Torn between McCarthy and Toni Morrison, I seek out John Steinbeck’s The Pearl as my next selection. It is mainly because it’s a short novel, Steinbeck is easy reading, and with the burden of Hypertext 3.0, Patchwork Girl, and Ethics … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Wrap Up
It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so forth. But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – In Review
I stopped too soon, and yet while another party rages as before–again, intent gone astray as led instead by human nature–the meaning is there and vague, unclear. Doc enjoys this second party; a surprise he soon finds out about and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Metaphor
"The element of the wonderful is required in Tragedy. The irrational, on which the wonderful depends for its chief effects, has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the person acting is not seen." Aristotle, Poetics, Part XXV Mary Talbot, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Story
I’m finally getting to finish this novel, having sidetracked myself for the better part of a week or more in analyzing it. I find, having ventured a few chapters further that the episode of the planning and the party for … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck
Unreal. I’m up to twelve pages, single-spaced, and still working. Although the vast majority of the text is taken up in quotations from either Poetics or Cannery Row, there is some input by me in comment. This is not what … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: An Essay on Cannery Row
It doesn’t look like I’ve done much yet, but I don’t have a written outline–that’s not my style of writing–so I just started from point A and with the help of my notes, will continue on from there. But, just … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck
This post started out as a comment in response to those by Steve and Mark at this post of mine, but in my usual rambling manner, got too ungainly to fit into one of those little comment boxes: I think … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Aristotle on Plot – (Just a Beginning)
Yes, story is important, although it need not be epic in nature, just something that touches the heart or stirs the mind to interest. For me, the enjoyable journey through a story is fed by good writing. I can’t get … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row and Poetics
A most interesting development in the reading… For many chapters, Mack and the boys have been planning a party for Doc just to show their appreciation of him. Well, it starts out as they need to make money to be … Continue reading Continue reading
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