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Summary: "A-O.K."
Review: i, Joanna think this is a good book.i enjoyed the plot.i also know twiederhold who rated this book,and i agree.
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Summary: Literary Analysis
Review: In this suspenseful story of a young boy and his pearling adventures, you may notice a few special things about this story. As you read this book, try to compare Rmon's feelings with your own. You may be suprised at the similarities. {The setting and suspense of this book make it an instant classic.} In one chapter of the book O'Dell does a great job describing the setting. In the sentence "At first I thought it must be the barron hills that closed in upon the lagoon and the coppery haze the lay over it, and the beach of black sand and the quiet," You can almost see yourself floating into the lagoon. In another sentence "As soon as you passed the rocks, however, you came to a narrow channel that wound like a snake between the two headlands for a half mile or farther," O'Dell seems to capture the feeling of floating into a channel. His great use of words can turn one sentence into an entire story. As you read this book you might also notice how O'Dells use of words create a great suspense. In the sentence "Then the boat rose on a wave and I made out a silvery shape swimming half out of the water not more than a furlong away," the suspense catches so suddenly that you feel the urge to look behind you. Another sentence,"El Manta Diablo!" is so suspenseful that a chill runs down your back whenever you hear it. Again O'Dells use of words turns just one sentence into an entire story. O'Dells great descriptions of the ocean and the situations in progress make this origonal story into a grat suspenseful tale of a boy and the ocean. So if there is a rainy day with nothing to do...pick up The Black Pearl and enjoy a great suspenseful story that you will never forget.
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Summary: I've read better
Review: It starts out with a good plot and idea, but I think it really went to waste. Definate fiction and realistic fiction can be good, but this book was so subtle you couldn't tell it was either. I really don't understand how this book got a newberry award. The end is also really disapointing (I mean, I've read textbooks with more exciting endings).
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Summary: Another great young reader's book by O'Dell
Review: Like Island of the Blue Dolphins, this is also a very well written book. It obviously borrows heavily from Steinbeck's The Pearl--even the scene with the crooked pearl dealers is very similar--but I didn't mind that very much. Actually, I liked this book even better than the Steinbeck one. :-) O'Dell does a fine job with the characters of 16-year old Ramon, his father, and the people in the town, and in creating the culture of the seaside fishing village in the book. Ramon's adventure with the Devil-Ray is suspenseful, and the enormous pearl has unforeseen consequences for the entire town. Overall a fine book for young readers.
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Summary: This book stinks
Review: My daughter also read this book and was bored to tears. It was not easy to understand. There should be more literture with female lead characters. Thanks you.
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Summary: Boring
Review: My son tried to read it and couldn't finish. He says it's excruciatingly boring. He compared it to the Little House on the Prairie.Are there any books out there that can capture the interest of an active, dare-devil type 12-year-old?
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Summary: Deadly Greed
Review: On the surface this is a story set in Baja, Mexico, about a pearl diving family. The reader learns much about this industry and the religion and superstition so prevelant among the natives there. However, the greed that overcomes many of the characters and the consequences of their greed, can happen anywhere. Those who lust for fortune often pay the price. In The Black Pearl the reader must decide whether the Manta Diablo is real, or a superstition. A must-read for grades 4 through 8 (although many adults will appreciate and enjoy this story).
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Summary: The Hook And Line
Review: Once I was sitting in my classroom reading a book. My teacher was telling us about what makes a good book. I, at the time was reading "The Black Pearl". Suddenly I heard my teacher talking about a hook and line. She said, "When you're writing class, think of your readers as a fish. When they read your book you want to hook them." So I thought about the hook and line as I read on. Then I got to the part where someone in Ramon's family dies.(Read and you'll see what I mean). They made it sort of unclear. So I thought to myself, "You can stop on a unclear part, or read on and let the book hook you". I read on through the book and when I finished I rellized that I was right. The book really hooked me! I gurrenty that you'll love this book!
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Summary: The Black Pearl - It was OK
Review: Parts of the book really held my interest. Other parts, however, were kind of boring and somewhat tedious. I really didn't understand how the ending went with the rest of the story. - D
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Summary: Great Book, Must read!
Review: Ramon found the fabulous Pearl of Heaven, but all it earned him was powerful enemies: one human, the other the notorious monster devilfish, The Manta Diablo, which guarded those waters. The story elements, rythmic writing, and the gravity of tone induce comparison to classic myth.
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