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The Pearl By John Steinbeck

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The book The Pearl by John Steinbeck relates to my own life in the sense that I have witnessed the evils that money brings. In the beginning, Kino is very poor, so poor that he cannot afford to take his son to the doctor when a scorpion stung him. He was so poor that the doctor would not even agree to see him. Then later on Kino finds a pearl the size of a sea-gull’s egg; it was so wonderful that the people of the village called it, “the Pearl of the World”(Steinbeck 23). As a result, Kino and his family started to get a lot of attention, and ultimately someone tried to steal the pearl from them during the night. Throughout the story, it mentions various evils that Kino possession of the pearl caused, such as, the burning of his hut, someone
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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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The themes that are often introduced in the first chapter of a book are prominent through the entire novel. They can be applied to different situations in both the writing and in real life. The classical novelette Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck displays multiple themes in the first chapter. The introduction is used to show the desolate area of Salinas California and the strong bond between George and Lennie. Using the two contrasting ideas, Steinbeck sets the mood for the rest of the novel.

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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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(65). As Kino’s house burns down the neighbors wonder whether r Kino and his family are inside, Kino can even hear all of the worried voices. If the same circumstance would have taken place at the beginning of the story, when Kino was a more honest man, he would have come out from his brother’s brush house and said that he and his family were fine, and maybe even take responsibility for killing the dead man next to the brush house. However, because Kino becomes corrupted by the power that the pearl gives him, he becomes dishonest, hides and runs away. The influence of the pearl degrades him, from a state of honesty to a state of corruption and he ends up bringing misery to himself, to his family and even to

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The pearl became evil through all the greed in humanity; therefore, bringing bad luck to anyone who touches it. Throughout the course of the story, I felt annoyed at Kino’s greed and selfishness. After I read the book, I learned that too much greed can lead to suffering, violence, and one’s downfall. Before, I never really knew the consequences of excess greed, but after reading “The Pearl" by John Steinbeck, now I know that I should never let greed take control over me. “He looked into his pearl to find his vision.

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