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Dissecting Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez Diego Velazquez was a master painter in the Golden Age of Spain. He combined his paintings with sensitivity to the life he observed around him with a palette of light, color, and richness. His famous painting Las Meninas, captured audiences thought out the ages. This painting has a lot of symbolism and history about what was going on at the time the painting was complete. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599; during this time

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 In Walter Dean Myers short story,”The Treasure of Lemon Brown” explores the values of Greg Ridley, a fourteen year old boy, who can’t play basketball because of his bad grade in math class. In John Steinbeck’s novel, The Pearl is about a man named Kino who finds a perfect pearl and is soon captured by greed. In both stories the main characters experience conflicts that change their views of what is important in life.

Greg and Kino Have you ever seen or experienced changes such as someone’s personality, morals, or lifestyle in your life or someone else’s because of a significant event? In the novel, The Pearl, By John Steinbeck and the story “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the main characters are affected and changed both negatively and positively by an event that happens to them. In The Pearl the main character a poor, Native American man named Kino lives with his family and is content with

many memorable quotes from John Steinbeck’s classic, The Pearl. While this story is composed of only eighty-seven pages, the author packs the book with more meaning and teaching than many authors have been able to in hundreds. Set in a small village in La Paz, Mexico, the tale deals with many topics, themes, and issues. However, the most noticeable of these recurring themes is greed. Greed is portrayed by the author as a destructive thing using the writing techniques of characterization, foreshadowing

Greed is an emotion instilled within everyone, and it possesses the power to overcome and destroy even the purest of people. This idea is depicted throughout the novel, The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck. In the story, the main character Kino is a righteous man and cares deeply for his wife Juana and his son Coyotito. They are a very poor Mexican-Indian family, living in a brush house society outside of town. Kino a pearl diver, finds a very expensive pearl, that can make himself rich. Once people

In The Pearl, greed played a major role in how the story developed and in Kino, the main character. John Steinbeck, the author of The Pearl, uses many literary devices such as characterization, symbolism, and foreshadowing to make a fantastic novel and a great story. Kino was consumed by the pearl, and together became one soul. He was so full of greed that the pearl became his life, and in the end it destroyed him, Juana, and Coyotito completely. This story is a prime example of how greed can

Money cannot buy happiness, especially for Kino, in The Pearl. In The Pearl, the main character, Kino is a poor person with not much to give to others. Until, one day he finds a pearl in the ocean while clam fishing. The author, John Steinbeck presents Kino with a flaw, being greedy which leads to his downfall. Kino can be considered a tragic hero due to Aristotle’s theory about tragic heros. One part of Aristotle’s theory is that the hero be of high status who is admired by society. Kino

Determination, Recklessness, and Understanding “Some deep outrage is here. My son must have a chance(59).” In the novella The Pearl the character Kino has many goals. His two main goals are to save his son Coyotito’s life and to be freed from the oppression of the Europeans. Over the course of the story Kino changes, he becomes more determined and reckless in pursuit of his goals, but in the end always knows when he has achieved them or if they are unachieveable. To begin with, one of the major changes

becomes greedy and violent because of the pearl. Although the pearl caused most of these abrupt beings, Kino could have stopped himself and his actions that caused so much pain. Kino and the pearl brought many aggressive and emotion changing events in La Paz, but Kino never stopped himself when he had the choice to. Kino had many options to sell or get rid of the pearl. Perhaps agreeing to sell the pearl the first time, like Juana had suggested, and accepted the small amount of money for it, the community

seemed, like the pearl did not only effect him to act greedy. It also made him think about the good outcomes of the pearl. Why? Well because The Pearl also showed the wealthiness Kino was able to have to provide his family to get out the poor area, La Paz, Mexico. But it mainly showed that the destruction of the pearl in Kino's’ life. In an area of the book, Kino’s greed was leading him to behave violently toward his wife. In The Pearl, Chapter 5 pg. 48-49 states that,”Her arm was up to throw