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The Black Pearl
by Scott O'Dell
I know that I read this book like, last year, but it was a GREAT book. The book encapusulates so many themes and lessons, it's nearly impossible for me to delve into the detail this book deserves, so I'll try to cover as many as I can.
1) First off, the thing you need to understand is that this book takes place in another country. The people are very superstitious and a village legend, Manta Diablo, lives in the waters nearby the village. As a matter of fact, it inhabits a cave underwater and guards a very precious treasure - the Black Pearl.
2) The protagonist is a child and is trying to follow in his father's business - a Pearl business. They clean and sell pearls that they find throughtout the land.
3) You have a villain, but in this case the villain seems to be fate until the last few pages of the book in which case it is a greedy tourist.
The boy loves to dive and he begs his father to let him search for pearls and his father reluctantly agrees. Very understandable, right? I wouldn't want my kid just diving into the ocean looking for pearls. The kid searches for days and finally comes across the black pearl. His father is horrified, but the kid thinks it is a special achievement. He places the pearl in the town statue's hands as a sign of his great victory. Shortly thereafter, bad things begin happening in the village and the boy's father demands he return the pearl before the Manta Diablo wrecks vengeance on the village.
The boy agrees and as he is about to grab it to return it, it is noticed to have been stolen. The boy sees the thief and follows him, only to be captured. The Manta Diablo, however, comes to the rescue (depends on if you want to view this as divine retribution or not) and battles the tourist. The tourist makes a fatal blow, but the Manta Diablo kills the tourist before it's dying breath. The boy goes home and tells his father of the events and the story ends.
1) First off, the thing you need to understand is that this book takes place in another country. The people are very superstitious and a village legend, Manta Diablo, lives in the waters nearby the village. As a matter of fact, it inhabits a cave underwater and guards a very precious treasure - the Black Pearl.
2) The protagonist is a child and is trying to follow in his father's business - a Pearl business. They clean and sell pearls that they find throughtout the land.
3) You have a villain, but in this case the villain seems to be fate until the last few pages of the book in which case it is a greedy tourist.
The boy loves to dive and he begs his father to let him search for pearls and his father reluctantly agrees. Very understandable, right? I wouldn't want my kid just diving into the ocean looking for pearls. The kid searches for days and finally comes across the black pearl. His father is horrified, but the kid thinks it is a special achievement. He places the pearl in the town statue's hands as a sign of his great victory. Shortly thereafter, bad things begin happening in the village and the boy's father demands he return the pearl before the Manta Diablo wrecks vengeance on the village.
The boy agrees and as he is about to grab it to return it, it is noticed to have been stolen. The boy sees the thief and follows him, only to be captured. The Manta Diablo, however, comes to the rescue (depends on if you want to view this as divine retribution or not) and battles the tourist. The tourist makes a fatal blow, but the Manta Diablo kills the tourist before it's dying breath. The boy goes home and tells his father of the events and the story ends.