THE PEARL SYMBOLISM WORKSHEET Page 2 6 6 7 14 15 Name_______________________________ Support "His people had once been great makers of songs so that everything they saw or thought or did or heard became a song." "Down the rope that hung the baby’s box from the roof support a scorpion moved slowly. His stinging tail was straight out behind him, but he could whip it up in a flash of time- EVIL "down the rope that hung the baby’s box from the roof support a scorpion moves slowly" "His teeth were bared and fury flared in his eyes and the song of the enemy roared in his ears." "Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for ‘Little Indians’? I am a doctor not a veterinary." "No, they never have any money. I, I alone in the world am supposed to work for nothing and I am tired of it. See if he has any money!" 19 27 "a town is like a colonial animal" 30 The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like a scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The poison sacs of the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it" "He watched the ants moving a little column…" 92 99 The mountains are a conflict with in. 118 " And the music of the pearl slowly drifted off, then disappeared." Interpretation