The Pearl Essays

some individuals. Some cherish the opportunity, while others falter. In The Pearl, a novel by John Steinbeck, Kino and his family are presented with a magnificent pearl. Kino and his village are indigent and heavily discriminated upon by their neighboring village. When Kino is presented with the pearl, he is offered an opportunity to escape the tumultuous environment he and his ancestors have always endured. However, the pearl incites more harm than comfort. Kino’s son, Coyotito, ends up getting caught

John Steinbeck’s novel, The Pearl, takes place in the early 1900s in La Paz, Mexico, where people of Spanish descent have oppressed the natives for over 400 years. Kino and Juana are an Indigenous couple who reside in La Paz with their son, Coyotito. At the beginning of the story they find “The Pearl of the World”, which they hope can lift them and generations to come out of poverty through education. Kino, Juana, and people in their village watch themselves and others in their community be cheated

radiates joy. It is the Pearl of the World. In the book, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, Kino, an impoverished pearl diver, has his life turned upside down, starting when his beloved son, Coyotito, gets stung by a scorpion. Kino then finds an enormous, perfect pearl, and the town started to get infected with greed. Then, Kino goes to the local pearl buyers, who, to Kino’s annoyance, attempt to scam him out of his treasured pearl. After Juana, Kino’s wife, tries to throw the pearl into the sea, Kino and

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” - Steve Biko. In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, the native Mexican protagonist, Kino Tomás, who -- as well as his fellow inhabitants -- is labeled as inferior, endures the unfortunate journey to regain autonomy. In their society, the Europeans, otherwise acknowledged as the superiors, intentionally share a narrow scope of knowledge with them, for, regarding Biko’s expression, it is easier to take advantage of minds that are uncertain

The Pearl In the book entitled The Pearl, the setting is placed in a small village in La Paz. La Paz is on the coast of Baja Peninsula. The town lays on a broad estuary, and near the beach there are white and blue canoes from Nayarit. Symbols: The Pearl - At first, the pearl represents a beguiling providence. Later on it becomes a burden because, everyone envy’s Kino and Juana and people start trying to steal the pearl from them. The Scorpion- The Scorpion that stings Coyotito in chapter 1 symbolizes

Throughout this novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck the most obvious and clear symbol of this novel is the giant pearl. Kino is a humble family from La Paz, Baja California in Mexico, his son gets stung by the scorpion and hiring a doctor to cure is too expensive for Kino. Aside from that his doctor is very unfair starts towards Kino for example, "'Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for 'little Indians? I am a doctor, not a veterinary'" (14).” Desperate to save to his son is to go off

The Pearl is told in third person omniscient. In the story ‘The Pearl’ there are three main characters. They are Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. Their family isn’t as wealthy as others. The wealthy people called them Indians. Kino had dark hair and his eyes were bright. Juana had dark hair and eyes. She always wore a blue head shawl over her nose, breasts, and around her back. Kino was good man, but once he found the pearl he let it get to his head and he became a different person. Juana was humble and

especially in the case of Kino, a poor pearl diver who lives in La Paz, from the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Everything from the emotions and feelings of a person are greatly impacted by such a small thing. The pearl is a great representation of how something that can only appear as a beacon of hope can be eventually molded into a much sadder object full of darkness and despair. The pearl also symbolizes the burdens of wealth and prosperity. The symbolism of the pearl is an interesting take on how a

in front of him. These are some things that happened in the fictional book, “The Pearl”. The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, that was first published in 1947. It is the story of a pearl diver, Kino, who explores for “The Pearl of the World” in hopes and dreams, the Pearl slowly becomes evil which fills them in many dangers. The Pearl is set in a small fishing village in La Paz Mexico. The Pearl takes place in a small country town called La Paz on the Baja Peninsula. In this

In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck indicates that exploitation leads to a negative outcome for the exploiter. At the bottom of page 31, the doctor gives ‘medicine’ to Coyotito. The ‘medicine’ actually makes Coyotito even sicker, “At last he handed the baby back to Juana, and he turned to Kino. ‘I think the poison will attack within the hour,’ he said. ‘The medicine may save the baby from hurt, but I will come back in an hour. Perhaps I am in time to save him.’ He took a deep breath and

book The Pearl by John Steinbeck, many symbols were used. The most important symbol was the pearl. The pearl was very important to Kino. It is an opportunity for Kino to make his life better. But slowly throughout the book, the pearl starts to change, and Kino begins to realize the evil within it. The pearl is an example of how good things can sometimes bring evil with them. Kino lives in a poor Mexican town and when he finds the pearl, he thinks of all the good it can bring. He sees the pearl as an

The Pearl was always an evil essence.There was never a use for it. It only brought evil to their family and everyone around them. The Pearl ruined the environments that it was meant to save and eventually turned the people in those environments corrupt. The Pearl even ruined and destroyed the main symbol of purity and hope. 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

even the villagers of Kino’s town feel. In John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl, Kino, a poor fisherman, who’s son is in dire need of medical care, finds something that could make his life a whole lot better, the pearl of the world. The biggest, most perfect pearl anyone of this small village has ever seen. Many of the villagers want to steal Kino’s pearl and keep it for themselves, and even Kino would do anything to keep the pearl. Materialism and greed left unchecked can lead to immoral behavior, such

In the novel, The Pearl, family plays a huge role throughout the story. Kino’s family has stuck with him through everything. Even after he beat his own wife, she still stuck by his side and never left him. Although Kino was in trouble and people were “hunting” him his brother Juan Tomas still hides him in his house. The loyalty of Juana and Juan Tomas made Kino want to keep moving forward until he received the reasonable amount of money for his pearl. First of all, it was wrong for Juan Tomas

In the novella, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the main character is an Indian man named Kino who lives in a small village by the sea. He and his race are poor and oppressed, one day Kino is pearl diving and finds the pearl of the world. He challenges society and refuses to become cheated out of getting wealth from it. He has good intentions; However, his materialistic obsession leads to the death of loved ones and chaos in the community and within his family. One of the morals of this story is that

In John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl, Kino is a poor, humble man with a wife and a baby. Out of luck, he finds a huge pearl, and it is worth thousands. This pearl symbolizes a lot of feelings and situations in this novel, and it helps keep the storyline flowing. The magical pearl first represents hope for a better life, and Kino sees his hopes and dreams. In the middle of the book, the pearl represents trying to hold on to your dreams, trying to hold on to the little bit of hope you want to have.

One of the most astonishing things happened in The Pearl after Kino found the miraculously big pearl. Even after Juana convinced Kino to throw away the “evil” pearl she tried to take it away from his possession. “Kino opened his eyes, for he sensed movement near him, but he did not move,” page 58. There is always that feeling where even though you can sense the danger, you cannot move, a sense of awestruck . I can feel Kino’s muscles tense up as he senses a presence near him. I can see a strong

morning, Kino was fortunate enough to find a large pearl and discovered it had wondrous powers, which were good and bad. Greed, Possession and Money Later in the day when the family found the wonderful pearl neighbors gathered at the couple’s house to witness its beauty and power. Those in need began to ask Kino for help but Kino believed the pearl should be used in providing his son with the schooling he never got as a young boy. Juana saw that the pearl brought out the worst in Kino and brought it

books we read like The Pearl. In the book, The Pearl, the wealth of Kino and his family is the pearl they find. It’s possession caused them great fear and labor from the beginning of the book, and it caused them grief towards the end. This quote applies to all parts of the book, and we will examine into all of the chapters to take a closer look. “The acquisition of wealth is a work of great labor.” The first part of this quote unquestionably applies to The Pearl. In The Pearl, Kino has a hard time

¨You don't need materials to find happiness.” This quote shows how people do not need materials and money to be happy with there life. In the novella The pearl by John Steinbeck, a poor fisherman finds a huge pearl after his baby boy gets stung by a scorpion. Initially Kino is going to pay for medicine for the baby boy named Coyotito, but as the story progresses Kino , the poor fisherman, begins to want more and more. But it is not only Kino who desires wealth and experiences greed. Through the