Pearls are made when sand gets into an oyster and the creature becomes irritated by the grit in its fleshy muscles. The oyster covers the sand with a hard layer until it's an orbe since a sphere is less painful. The oyster will continue to cover the sang (now a pearl) with the coating until the pearl shakes loose is stolen away by the ocean.
How is this process a trope for human development?
Humans are like this in the fact that trials in our life make us hard, can make us cold and unfeeling but if we struggle to free ourselves from the taint, we can become a beautiful, treasured thing. It may take grit, time and pain to get there but we can make something beautiful out of nothing. (S.D.)
What I think is amazing is that the making of pearls is actually and accident. With out this mistake in the ocean, all the women in the world would not have their pearl jewlry and the people who make a living off diving for pearls, like Kino, would have no job. So eventhough it is an accident, is has helped make our world a better place.
ReplyDeleteI also think that an oyster makeing a pearl is like a human. They are similar because when a human makes a mistake they try cover it up just like the oyster covers up the grain of sand to make it look better. (C.S.)
The creation of a pearl can be related to the christian creation story. In it, God made humans, which were something good, just as sand can be useful for gripping the ocean floor or making into a sand castle. Then humans went and sinned, forcing imperfection on something good, in the same way as sand can become an irritant to an oyster and would be better gone. Finally, God makes it back into something good, now with an excuse to send a Messiah to us, like the oyster making the irritating sand into a beautiful pearl.
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Cayman & Daniel,
ReplyDeleteYou both really brought something new to the topic. Well done. Cayman, did you know that most of the pearls in the world are actually created by humans inserting an irritant into a collection of oysters? It's kind of grim to think about but it's a huge industry. Oyster farmers then harvest the pearl, often at the expense of the oyster's life. I'm not sure that the 'meat' is consumed once the pearl is ripped out of the host.
Pearls are created when an alien substance, such as a grain of sand or a tiny parasite, enters the body of an oyster. When this alien substance enters, the mantle cells of the oyster begin to cover the irritating, invading substance with thin slips of nacre, which is a shiny mineral excreted by the oyster. The mantle cells continue to cover the alien substance until it’s bound in a shell-like material, forming a pearl. This process of covering the alien substance with nacre continues until the pearl is swept away by the great ocean.
ReplyDeleteI think the process of creating a pearl is similar to the process of completing a project. When a project assignment is given to humans--the “alien substance,” humans begin to work on it. Overall, humans love to procrastinate and the project becomes “irritating” and humans “attack” it by working on it, as if covering the alien substance with nacre. Once we start, we try to present a perfect and beautiful project, like the pearl. The project is then taken back by the person who assigned it, whereas the oyster’s mantle cells continue to cover the alien substance until it is swept away by the great ocean.
A pearl forms inside of an oyster when a tiny grain of sand somehow works its way inbetween the muscles of the oyster. The sand is really irritating to the oyster, so it starts forming layers of this hard, shell-like material to form a sphere. the pearl keeps growing until the oyster dies and opens up or a pearl oyster farmer happens to stumble across it.
ReplyDeleteThe formation of a pearl is alot like a human in my mind. When a human makes a mistake and/or embarasses himself/herself, it can be really annoying at first. But then, we figure out a solution to the problem, and we carry out the plan, like the oyster secreting the mineral stuff that eventually makes up the pearl. This pretty much means: A small problem or annoyance can be made into a thing of beauty, with a little action on your part.
pearls are formed when a forgein substacnce (usually sand) gets inside an oyster. This irritates the oyster and to solve this problem it covers the pearl in a substance to smooth it over so the roughness won't bother it. as time passes the roughness goes away creating a very valuable very beautiful pearl.
ReplyDeleteTo me the formation of a pearl is a lot like rehab. The sand is the human and the oyster is the rehab facility. When a person goes into rehab its because they need help. (think of there addiction being like the rough edges of the sand particle) the rehab facility smooths over the rough patches, and when they're done they are a pearl. They could become something important.
katherine morey
Pearls are made by something like a piece of sand that gets inside of an oyster. The oyster get irritated and starts building up on the grain of sand and makes a beautiful pearl out of that grain of sand.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lot like the develepment and creation of a human. We cover up our mistakes, and then make the, something wonderful by makinga few adjustments and BOOM! something beatiful.
w.c.
Pearls are beautiful accidents. They shine so brightly, but what you don't think about is how they were not even suppose to be there. They are made by a grain of sand (usually) finding its way into an oyster and aggravating the muscles in the oyster and therefore creating a barrier therefore causing the pearl. The process is long and cannot ever be expedited. And not all the oysters have pearls.
ReplyDeleteWhen i think of how humans relate to this I think that in some way everyone is an oyster. Plain and boring on the outside, but in my mind they have a decision whether or not to let the grain of sand in. If they do it would take forever to make a beautiful pearl inside them, but it would be worth the hardship because every single person can choose whether or not they want to be beautiful on the inside.
A pearl is made when a grain of sand irritates an oyster's flesh. The oyster covers it with layer after layer of cement until it releases it into the ocean.
ReplyDeleteThis process is almost exactly like a human. When something irritates us, we may try to cover it up and turn it into something nice. But if we just let go of our troubles, we would feel much better.
-Griffin I.