The book The pearl....help?

Question

I have been trying to figure this 1 question since 4pm and its 7:30 I have all the others answered but I don't understand the questions....help please?

I don't need you to answer them(even thought that would be neet :P) but I just want help understanding the questions.
(there from the back of the book)

6.)what classes of society have been presented to the reader by the end of chapter 1?Which is central to the story?how is it spot lighted?


thanks Mad_catz....and no I really don't want an anwer to the questions just want it traslated into words an 15 year old gr.10 student could understand.

and # 2.) part 2 what does this statement tell about the economic level in which these people live?

"for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something"?

Answer 1

Basically, its asking you:

What classes have you seen by the end of the chapter (poor, upper class, middle class, etc.)?
Which one is the story focused on?
How is made the focus of the book /how is it shown in the story?

I imagine you can take it from there ; )

Answer 2

Break down the words to see what it means…

What classes of society have been presented to the reader by the end of chapter 1?
-classes of society…those with the same economic status or condition (like the lower class, the middle class, the upper class) or
-social status or position (like the nobility, the aristocracy, the gentry, the upper class, the ruling class, peasants, lower class, working class)

Does chapter 1 show you rich and poor people; does it have servants in some form…waiters, housekeeper, cook, butler, governess, cleaning woman or anyone that serves someone else? Have you met anyone who is uneducated, crude or rough…like peasants? Does the chapter include any rulers of some sort…nobility?

Which is central to the story? How is it spot lighted?
If you can figure out what place in society or economics the characters in chapter 1 hold, then you can answer this question. What is the social status, for instance, of the main character? Is he/she rich or poor; does he/she serve or get served; does he/she have a title such as nobility? Whatever position(s) the main character(s) holds, would be central to the story. Is poverty a driving force in the narrative?

Now, how does the story show the importance of this status? The importance would be shown in the character of the person in the story (or people in the story). For instance, is the personality of the character affected by being rich or poor; i.e., does the person have a feeling of superiority to the poor or look down on people who aren’t as rich? Or, if poor, is the person downtrodden and hopeless? It would also show up in the actions of the main character. Is he/she driven to extremes, because of poverty; does he/she go to excess because of wealth.

My opinions are in reference to the questions, not the book (of course). I hope this helps.

Addition: You asked later what this tells you "for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something"? about the economic status (or something to that effect).

If a man can afford to OWN a boat, which is relatively expensive, then a woman will know he has plenty of money to provide for her. At least, that's my take.

Answer 3

read it a long time ago.
teachers ought to change books every 30 years.

i'll take a stab.
let me know if anyone bleeds?

a guy, apoor guy finds a valuable pearl--right?
he see's the potential to lift his fam. from the pits

a pearl broker or someone with more savvy finds out about the pearl and wants it?--right.

someone get sick--a kid?
the cost of the medicine is the price of the pearl?
something along those lines?

the guy finally resolves the illness and lookes into the surface of the pearl and sees the evil in men's hearts?

He throw it back into the sea. better to be poor and happy than to deal with this temptation?



the two classes of people. the poor pearl diver
the upper crust pearl merchant.

the poor guy is center stage.
the potential of the pearl awakens him to a a whole new world.

the spotlight is what the power of the pearl, selling it, what the potential income could mean for someone desperately poor.

from the slime to the stars in one pearl.
put that in your own words. no teacher is gonna believe you wrote that unless you are brilliant, and if you were you would not be reading my drivel.



I have my own 15 yr old here.

if you want to talk more you can I.m me or
my email is [e-mail]

blessings

f.c.

Answer 4

Basically it's asking, what levels of society have you seen in the book so far? Poor people (lower-class), merchants (middle- or upper-class), etc.? And which of those categories is the story going to focus on? How can you tell?

Answer 5

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The-Pearl.id-141.html


The answers are in here - good luck!