In the story "The Black Pearl" the boy faced many challenges while trying to get the pearl. One challenge that he faced was that he could not stay down in the cave for that long because he would loose his breath " On my second dive I had no sooner reached the bottom than a shadow fell across the bed where I was working. It was the shadow of a gray shark, one of the friendly ones, but by the time he had drifted away my breath was gone." (15) and "So I failed to pry the shell loose before my lungs began to hurt and I had to go up. (14). This shows that he had to go up and down because he was out of breath very soon. Another challenge he faced was trying to find the pearls in the cave and having to work so hard to find them. "I dived six times
