Gathering the Pearls in Life
When I look at the cover of the Book,
“Gathering of Pearls”, there are many thoughts come to my mind. On the cover,
there are beautiful flowers all around the image. This could be saying to us
that there are beautiful things all around Sookan, but she has to look for
them. The image on the cover is very simple. It is an image of a girl on the
floor, wearing a black dress, white blouse and black shoes. She is picking up
pearls from the floor. I know from reading the book that Sookan’s pearl
necklace, that Sister Reed gave to her, has broken and that she is picking up
the pearls that are all over the floor. The image reminds me of the story in
the book and how Sookan was able to make good things from the bad things that
happened in her life. The cover image and title symbolize how Sookan got many
beautiful things from the bad things that happened in her life.
In the cover image, Sookan is
gathering pearls. Each pearl represents something beautiful that has come from
something that was hard or bad in her life. When Sookan went to college, she
did not have much money. She had to get a job. The job she got was babysitting
for Professor Bennett’s family. Because she went to work for her teacher, she
met his children. She loved the children, and the children loved her. Sookan
fell in love with Professor Bennett’s children, and they fell in love with her.
If Sookan had enough money so that she would not need to work, she would have
not had the love of the children. Because she did not have much money, she got
the love of the two children. This was a good thing that happened to her
because of something bad. Another good thing that happened because of something
bad was that Sookan was able to help Marci and Ellen get along better with
their parents because Sookan’s father was dead and her own sister was always trying
to tell Sookan how she should live her life. Sookan missed her father very much
and felt bad that him being dead made things harder for the family. Things were
really hard for Sookan’s mother, because Sookan’s father was dead. Sookan would
have loved to have her father alive. Sookan knew that her sister loved her,
even when Sookan did not agree with what her sister was telling her, or when her
sister was being mean to her. The things that happened in Sookan’s life made her
understand things that Marci and Ellen did not understand and made it easier
for her to explain to her friends why they should not be angry with their parents.
There are many pearls in the picture.
Sookan is in the floor gathering the pearls to make sure that she gets all of
them. She is being careful picking up the pearls because she does not want to
miss any of the good things that are coming to her. Some of the pearls are in
front of her, and some of them are behind her. Also, in Sookan’s life, there
are good things in her future and good things in the past. In the picture,
there are more pearls in front of her. This could mean that there more good
things that will happen to her in the future than happened before in the past.
The image and the title are about it
is important to gather the beautiful things that come from the bad things that
happen in life. Just like when a grain of sand gets inside an oyster. The grain
of sand is irritating to the oyster at first, but the oyster makes a beautiful
pearl around the irritating thing. Maybe, that is why Sookan does not get too
upset when bad things happen, because she knows that she will be able to make
something good from them.
