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The Pearl By Amy Steinbeck Sparknotes

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In "The pearl" first published in 1947, a novella inspired by a Mexican Folk tale from La Paz, Baja California. The pearl represents both sides of human nature, the charachters in the book choose to see the positive aspects due to the value of the pearl, but within the pearl there are negative experiences that the charachters later on face.

The pearl is viewed as desirable and worthy. Everyone in the town wants the pearl due to it's form of value and beauty, in perspective of the human mind and the way they now choose to view Kino. On page 23, the narrator described how everyone feels about the pearl. The people of the town start to view Kino differently in a sesne of him having the power over their most possessed dreams and desires. "he, curiously became every man's enemy." It is evident, that everyone in the town sees Kino as way to get what they want and in order to do that they feel as though they have to compete with him. The people of the town view Kino as more powerful due to the opportunity, Kino now carries with him. …show more content…

On page, 89 Kino sees the pearl with a different perspective because of all the hardship and traumatic experiences he and his family have had to go through. "He saw, "Evil faces," and "the light of burning" aswell as " Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away." The suggestion here is that, overtime the pearl has continued to bring negative experiences and problems to his life. Although, Kino wanted to believe the pearl would bring him good, with time Kino learned that the pearl was in fact changing who he was as a person and slowly but surely destroying his

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Juana pleads for Kino to get rid of the pearl, he talks her into relief and assurance that he will sell the pearl. Kino arrives at a pearl dealer’s store, only to be told that the pearl is only worth a small

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In The Pearl, events in Kino’s life cause him to change from the beginning to the end of the story. “ It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.” This is a quote from The Pearl shows that Kino is content with his life. Even though Kino is poor he is happy and not searching for other things to come into his life.

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The reason that Kino and Juana went searching for something of value was because Coyotito needed to be healed by the doctor. Once they found the “wonderful” pearl there was no longer a use for it. Juana’s seaweed cure had worked and now there was no need for the pearl. Kino only wanted to use it for things that weren’t necessary such as a wedding with Juana, with whom he was already married, and a rifle which he didn’t

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The stranger attacks Kino in an attempt to find the pearl and steal it. Kino’s actions are described as follows, “His right hand went into his shirt and felt his knife… he stood up and walked to the doorway” (55) Kino is attacked and Steinbeck tells the reader how Juana reacts. “Kino lay on the ground, struggling to ride… Juana dropped her stone, and she put her arms around Kino and helped him to his feet… blood oozed down…”

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The Pearl is a story based around a man named Kino and his family. His family is extremely poor so when he finds a pearl that can make his family have a better life, he does everything to protect it, not realizing he can’t control the consequences.

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The Pearl is a book written by John Steinbeck. The main character, Kino, found a pearl that would make his wife, Juana, and his child, Coyotito, wealthy. Kino needs to sell the pearl to get this money, but none of the pearl buyers will give him a reasonable price. Kino thought his find would bring happiness to his family, but instead it gave them a great deal of sadness. The theme in The Pearl is that a dream is good until it begins to destroy the other things of value in a person’s life.

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“Every man suddenly became related to Kino’s pearl, and Kino’s pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers of everyone, and the only person that stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man’s enemy.” (page 23). This quote states that everyone envies Kino and wants the pearl’s wealth for himself or herself. Later in the book, one of these people will try to take the pearl. This will cause Kino to try to protect the pearl at all costs.

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When Kino heard about the pearl, it was called “the pearl that might be” meaning that the pearl could exist, but it is not one hundred percent positive that it actually existed. Kino knew that if he found that pearl that he could pay for his son to be healed. Stories from the natives proved it was a folktale, or just a legend. Juana even prayed for him to find the pearl. The next time that Kino went to search for pearls he found “the pearl that might be” in a large clam shell.

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Kino wanted to sell the pearl so his son Coyotito could have a good life and education, he could own a gun, so he and Juana could have a real wedding, but soon after Kino’s love for his begins to change. ¨He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side¨ (Steinbeck 59). After

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At the beginning of the novel, Kino is represented as an honest man who chooses to do what is right over doing what is wrong, but by possessing the pearl he changes. “Oh, my brother, an insult has been put on me that is deeper than my life. For on the beach my canoe broken, my house is burned, and in the brush dead man lies. Every escape is cut off. You must hide us, my brother’ ”

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‘When we sell it at last, I will have a rifle,’ he said, and he looked into the shining surface for his rifle, but he saw only a huddled dark body on the ground with shining blood dripping from its throat.” (Steinbeck, 72). This shows that pearls can’t destroy people, but people can. Kino was using the pearl for his own benefit. He even killed for the pearl.

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As the thieves become more and more of a threat, Kino fears the loss of the pearl, his wife and son’s lives, and even his own life. After a full day of evading the thieves, Kino, Juana, and Coyotito find a cave to hide in until they are presented with an opportunity to escape. The thieves do not appear to be leaving anytime soon, so Kino decides to leave the cave and sneak down to attack them. Just as he is about to make his attack, he hears a noise. The thieves hear the noise too, and raise their rifles in the direction of the noise and fire.

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These three characters became greedy after each of them wanted to do something different with the pearl. The doctor wanted to keep the pearl in his safe, probably knowing it was valuable. Kino wanted to keep the pearl whether or not it was bringing evil to his family. Finally, the pearl buyer was attempting to convince Kino that the pearl was worthless and they tried getting the pearl for less money than it was actually worth. Overall, three literary devices were used to describe the greediness of three different characters.

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I am sorry. You thought it was a thing of value, and it is only a curiosity’”(Chapter 4) And the wealthy, as an example the doctor, used Kino’s ignorance to try and delude him to pay a treatment that wasn’t completely loyal. Kino became affected by all these actions that were made, and he began to obsess with benefits that the pearl could’ve conveyed. Kino had a shift in characters once it came to the conclusion that he had the pearl in his

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