Wealth is not always good, when you accidentally get something and you want something. In the novella, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the main character Kino cozens by the pearl, so he had several bad experiences. When someone only focus on money or to be wealth, he must lose something. There is no one would be lucky from a expensive pearl without working hard. Wealth can change an individual’s mind.
Money brings out people’s selfish side. Steinbeck demonstrates how Kino cozened by the pearl badly, he says, “No one shall take our good fortune from us” (57). The pearl is very beautiful so it cozens Kino’s mind. Even juana asked him to through it back to the ocean but he doesn’t listen to her. Therefore , there is an assistant professor of social psychology prove money makes people selfish. “The more money you have, the more focused on yourself become, and less-sensitive to the welfare of people around you,” Piff says (Paul Piff). When people become wealth, they may think how to be more wealth. Then they don’t listen to others even is their family. Some people believe that have money can help others. However, some
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Kino thought that pearl is a gift from god and he want to keep the pearl so much, so he says, “ The pearl has become my soul” (67). Kino only thought pearl can bring good luck. Actually beautiful things always bring poison. So, Kino killed people because pearl. “A lot of we see is a baseline orientation for the lower class to be more empathetic and the upper class to be less so”, study co-author Michael Kraus told(TIME). If a person has less empathetic that he may does some bad things. Empathetic is very important. Someone may believe that if a person too empathetic then he will get hurt from others. However, if we see a person that need help, actually it just a small help, but if we didn’t help with it, that person may get hurt from mind. So, as being a human, we can’t selfish and greed