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Yong  \nBA(SINGAPORE)MA(MALAYA)Lecturer in English,University of Malaya  \nadtieleg“2  \nCLASS.NO.823STei10mGGNquISH PRose)ACC.NO.01504  \n后：a  \nLONGMANYORK PRESS  \nBradfield CollegeWITHDRAWN  \nExtracts from The Pead by John Steinbeck are reprintedby kind permission of Viking Penguin Inc.,New York,andWilliam Heinemann Ltd,London.  \nCopyright 1945 by John Steinbeck;Crenewed 1973 byElaine Steinbeck,Thom Steinbeck,and John Steinbeck IV.  \nYORK PRESS  \nImmeuble Esseily,Place Riad Solh,Beirut  \nLONGMAN GROUP UK LIMITEDLongman House,Bumt Mill,Harlow,Essex CM202JE,England  \nAssociated companies,branches and representativesthroughout the world  \n◎Librairie du Liban 1981  \nAll rights reserved;no part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwisewithout either the prior written permission of the Publishers or alicence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued bythe Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1P9HE.  \nFirst published 1981Sixth impression 1991  \nISBN □-582-02295-9  \nProduced by Longman Group(FE)Ltd.Printed in Hong Kong  \n## Part 1:Introduction\n\npage 5  \n## General introductionBackground to The PearlA note on the text\n\nS  \n11  \n13  \n## Part 2:Summaries15A general summary15Detailed summaries17\n\nPart 3:Commentary  \n35The nature of The Pearl35The Pearl as a social document36The characters40The ideas47Style and meaning54The theme63  \n## Part 4:Hints for study\n\n65  \n## The plot\n\n65  \nCharacterisationThe settingThe style  \n66  \n68  \n69  \nThe arrangement of materialUseful quotationsContext questionsInterpretative questionsModel answers  \n70  \n74  \n79  \n81  \n81  \n85  \n## Part 5:Suggestions for further reading\n\n87  \nThe author of these notes  \n# Introduction\n\n## General introduction\n\nJohn Ernst Steinbeck was born on 27 February 1902 in Salinas,Cali-fornia.The country where he grew up is a fertile green valley,boundedby the Gabilan and Santa Lucia Mountains and by the sea.This regiondeeply affected Steinbeck and provided the background for many of hisnovels:the world of his childhood is evoked sensitively in The Red Pony(1933).Steinbeck came from a middle-class family.His father operateda flour mill and for many years was the treasurer of Monterey County.His mother,Olive Hamilton,a school-teacher,was portrayed bySteinbeck in East of Eden(1952).She encouraged Steinbeck to readand he was acquainted asa child with the works ofFlaubert,Dostoevsky,Milton,Hardy and George Eliot.However,the books that influencedhim most were the King James version of the Bible and Malory's Morted'Arthur.  \nSteinbeck went to Salinas High School and Stanford University,where he studied literature and marine biology,although without takinga degree.During this time he held a series of temporary jobs,includingworking as a ranch hand,an assistant chemist in a sugar refinery,alabourer in a road building gang and a fisherman in Monterey.Afterleaving Stanford,he lived briefly in New York,where he worked on anewspaper and also as a labourer helping to build Madison SquareGarden.His close and varied experience with a variety of people can befelt in the freshness and sympathy with which he describes the life of thecommunity in his early novels.  \nHis first novel,Cup of Gold(1929),was not characteristic of Stein-beck's well-known novels.It was about Henry Morgan,the seventeenth-century buccaneer.With his next two novels,Steinbeck discovered histrue subject.The familiar central California scene of his early life formsthe setting of The Pastures of Heaven(1932)and To a God Unknown(1933).Henceforth,his best fiction was concerned with California,thetrue source of his inspiration.  \nIn 1930 Steinbeck married Carol Henning and they lived in PacificGrove near Monterey.He was still a struggling,unknown writer 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