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    Characters contribute to creating a theme in stories we read with physical, verbal, and mental actions. The Pearl written by John Steinbeck is about a poor family living their usual life in their village when their son gets sick and they cannot purchase medical care. They usually go pearl diving and find nothing but are blessed with a huge pearl. The pearl can create great riches but also creates great suffering with in the village. In the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck the characters, The Doctor

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne, many characters are interesting, and each has portrayed themselves in a new and different way. However, one specific character stands out to the reader while he or she reads this novel: Pearl. Pearl Prynne, the main character’s daughter, symbolizes sin, and her mother also considers the young girl to be a blessing to Hester. Pearl serves to remind not only her mother, Hester, of her sin, but also the people of the Massachusetts Colony who see Pearl and Hester each day. Despite

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    In life, people see different meanings to the same events based on their perspective. In the same way, authors place symbols in a book to intensify the characters’ emotions and further the plot. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols in The Scarlet Letter such as the color red, sunshine, and various characters, such as Chillingworth, Hester, and Pearl. Red is a color that can represent passion, sensitivity, or power. Throughout the novel, the color red represents all of these descriptions. Hawthorne creates

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    author of The Pearl, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men. Within these three books, Steinbeck uses a creative technique of writing and allows his characters to learn life lessons. These books tell us about each character and the struggles they are going through. In The Pearl, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses many examples of characters learning new lessons about life. In The Pearl, the main life lesson Steinbeck writes about is to not be greedy. Kino, the main character, finds an

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    discussed and memorable in the novel. These scenes act as a major setting not once, nor even twice, but, indeed, thrice. The scaffold scenes contain an abundance of imagery, most aid to the discovery that the scaffold is symbolic for judgement day, and Pearl is a symbol for God. The scaffold scenes provide a clear representation of “the great judgement day”. The scaffold acts as a location of judgement multiple times during the novel. The first scene depicts the judgement of Hester by the puritan community

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    the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, readers notice how the characters, Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale act throughout the story. When reading The Scarlet Letter, the way society runs in New England, during the 1640s, changes the way the main characters act, some in a positive ways that end up helping the character, and others in a negative way that affect the characters. The city of Boston, Massachusetts has very strict protocols when it comes

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    Pearl: Pearl is the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is a protagonist in the story, for she serves as a living reminder of Hester’s sin. She is a round and complex character, for she is intuitive, and she is also very dynamic. She is very observant, for when Hester asks why she wears the A, Pearl replies, “‘Truly do I… It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!” (167). Pearl is also more of a symbol than a character, for she symbolizes many to different characters

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    The Pearl Greed

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    The Pearl by John Steinbeck talks about the a native american family that finds the pearl of the world but, throughout the book greed gets the best of them and tears them apart. Greed is the most talked about theme in the book. THis is conveyed through many characters like Kino, the doctor, and the Pearl Buyers. The pearl impacts all of the characters which causes them to be affected by greed. The doctor is a prime example of being Greedy. The book says the doctor never goes to the brush houses

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    Letter by Nathaniel Hawthore, Pearl is described as a mischievous character resulting from an act of sin. In contrast to most Puritan customs, her behavior could be described as irrational, depraved, and disrespectful. This contributes to why many look at her on a negative perspective and label her as evil. Early in the chapter the townspeople state, “The child could not be made amenable to rules” (42). Her true importance lies in her ways of provoking the other characters in the book, functioning primarily

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    In his story, Hester conceived a daughter, Pearl, during the time that her husband, Roger Chillingworth, was not in town. He finds out her secret and plots to torture the father of Pearl, Dimmesdale. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the most sinful character because he does not recognize Pearl as his daughter in public, does not confess his sin of adultery, and he tortures himself. To begin with, Dimmesdale is the most sinful character because he denies Pearl as his daughter when they are in

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