Cause
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Effect
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The
Pearl comes into the life of Kino and his family which makes a lot of changes
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They
have a lot of bad luck and it causes death, destruction, and devastation
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Kino and Juana try to sell the pearl to the highest bidder
|
Businessmen try to swindle Kino’s Family
|
He
Pearl made the Pearl Buyer's mad
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They
sent out trackers to hunt Kino's family down and steal the Pearl.
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Coyotito was well but again
worsened
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Because doctor was racist
and cruel with different
people
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.” ― John Steinbeck, The Pearl
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Cause / Effect Chart
The Main Character
Character
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One word description
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Appearance
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Significance to the story
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Kino
|
Honest
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Kino is an Indian
man that has a wife, a brother, a sister in law, and one son. He is young and strong, has black hair, dark skin, warm and fiery eyes and
his mustache is meager and rough.
|
Kino is the
main character
in the story.
|
Juana
|
Lovely
|
Juana was the wife
of Kino and mother of Coyotito. She is a very strong woman and believes in
her husband. She has long black hair and
forming two braids, brown skin, cheerful, brave, intelligent, obedient,
respectful, etc.
|
Juana is a very important
character because she always supports her husband.
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Coyotito
|
Quiet
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Coyotito is the first son of
Kino and Juana. He is small, he knows not yet speak. Also hair and dark
skin.
|
Coyotito is the innocent one in
the story because he is just a baby and he doesn't know anything or what is
going on.
|
Juan Tomas
|
Friendly
|
Juan Tomas is Kino’s brothers.
It’s A little
older than Kino, strong, black
hair and dark skin. It's someone that help in difficult times and make decision.
|
He is not a main
character but he is still kind of an important character in the story. He
loves his family especially Kino because he needs guidance in life.
|
Apolonia
|
Sympathetic
|
Apolonia id Juan’s wife. She
has long black hair, brown
skin, something fat
and she is big-headed, obedient and sympathetic.
|
She is rarely in
the story but there is one part where she pretends to mourn for Kino and his
family to make the villagers believe that Kino's family is dead.
|
Doctor
|
Cruel
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Doctor is the person who
attended Kino's son. He isn’t very young, eye bags, fat, his voice hoarse because of the fat that oppressed his
throat. He is ignorant, cruel,
deceitful, ambitious, selfish, racist, exploited and dehumanized.
|
The doctor was also
a minor character that was just plain fat and very cruel to the Indian/Mexican
people which would get him in trouble during the present day.
|
Businessman
|
Selfish
|
Businessman are very bad people
working buy pearls for the minimum value and selling them for a lot, so
cheating fishermen who sell pearls like Kino. They are cruel, selfish,
avaricious, liar and swindler.
|
They planned out
their prices together so they can all cheat the villagers buy selling the
pearls for a cheaper value than it ought to be. The Pearl Buyer's also have
the greed for riches and cheated Kino so it made him very angry. You see that
is why the Pearl Buyer's can make a big profit for themselves. They lie and
cheat just to get the lowest price from you.
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