• Māori people are portrayed via a kidnapping? couldn’t it be something else, any other non-illegal, non-morally wrong introduction? yes, if the author weren’t...
  • One of the women gave over her flax basket of ferns and caught Pearl Button up in her arms, and walked with Pearl Button's head against her shoulder and her...
  • "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped" is a 1912 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Rhythm in September 1912 under the pen name of Lili Heron.
  • Something that is noticeable by the fact that Pearl enjoys eating the peach. It is also interesting that Mansfield is using a child to suggest that both settlers...
  • How Pearl Button Was Kidnappedis a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield, published 1912.
  • ...Maori, Pakeha, restrictions Interpretations of Katherine Mansfield’s early story “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped” usually revolve around the understanding...
  • “The Swinging Gate: Katherine Mansfield's Missionary Vision” by Richard Cappuccio argues that Mansfield's initial diary entry is a lens through which one can...
  • Mansfield makes wonderful use of color and close observation to help us see the Maori through the eyes of Pearl.
  • In the brief story “How Pearl Button was kidnapped” the primitivism influence can be clearly appreciated in the ways of life of the Maoris, who are described as...
  • Introduction: ‘How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped’ as Künstlerroman. Mark Williams and Jane Stafford, who approach Katherine Mansfield's problematic...
  • SUMMARY Pearl Button is a little girl living in a big and rich house, a kind of house that she calls House of Boxes.