The Pearl

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck Published in 1945
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John Steinbeck

• born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902
• Parents were educated professionals
• Loved the classics mother fostered his love of
  reading
• Excelled in athletics as a boy, especially
  basketball and track
• Attended Stanford University
• Left university to work as a reporter in New York
• Returned to California in 1929

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John Steinbeck continued

• First novel published in 1929
• Wrote many significant novels successful author
• Steinbecks style can be described as lyric
  prose rich in imagery
• His works often championed the underprivileged
• His novels are filled with commentary that makes
  the social extremes of life clear to the audience
• Steinbeck balances oppression of the have-nots
  with imagery of the small, everyday joys of life

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published in 1937
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The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, won the
Pulitzer Prize (distinguished fiction by an
American author, preferably dealing with American
life).
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck Published in 1945
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John Steinbeck won a Nobel Prize in Literature in
1962

• Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men
  and women from all corners of the globe for
  outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry,
  medicine, literature, and for work in peace. The
  foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when
  Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of
  his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel
  Prize.
• The prize in literature is dedicated to the
  person who shall have produced in the field of
  literature the most outstanding work in an ideal
  direction.

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The setting of The Pearl is in Central America,
Baja Peninsula. The city is La Paz, spanish for
the peace as in a tropical paradise.
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The Baja Peninsula was explored and settled by
European Spaniards. These Spaniards considered
themselves a higher social and economic class
than the native Baja people.
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Manta ray and sea lion
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The Baja Peninsula Coastline
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The interior of the peninsula is desert. Its main
vegetation is cactus and brush.
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Steinbeck passed in 1968. The Steinbeck Memorial
is in Monterrey, California.
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