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    The Pearl Reflection

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    The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck in 1944, is a thoughtful classic. The Pearl follows Kino, the main character, along with his wife, Juana, and their baby, Coyotito. The family lives in a poor town by the sea. Kino is a pearl diver and lives a peaceful life. This all goes awry when a scorpion bites Coyotito, and they are unable to receive medical help because of their poor status. Despite being unable to receive treatment, they continue with their normal routines. However, the next day was anything

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    The Pearl Struggles

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    multiple struggles throughout the story of The Pearl. Kino is a pearl diver, and he found a pearl that he believed to be everything. Kino started to value the pearl more than his family. He got his priorities mixed up, and the pearl should not be valued more than his family. Throughout this novel, Steinbeck conveyed that the most precious things in life are not as valuable as they seem. Kino had tremendous dreams for the future. When he looked into the pearl, he saw important things happening to him

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    The Pearl Of The World

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    prosperity. It is a window into a life of higher status and more achievement. It is the “pearl of the world.” In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino, an impoverished pearl diver, finds the pearl of legend, an enormous, shining jewel plucked from the mouth of an oyster. Hoping to sell the pearl and rid themselves of poverty and ignorance, Kino, Juana, his devoted wife, and Coyotito, their infant son, travel to the pearl buyers’ offices, where they intend to make a profit by exchanging their incredible discovery

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    The Pearl Greed

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    consume you? In the novella The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, we meet a Mexican native named Kino. Kino is a poor man who lives in a world where his people are oppressed. He is a fisherman, and the fish he catches are the main source of food for him, his wife Juana, and his son, Coyotito. When Coyotito is stung by a scorpion, Kino needs money to pay the doctor to heal Coyotito. To get this money, Kino goes oyster diving hoping to find a pearl. What he finds is the pearl of the world. This gives him lots

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    The Pearl Greed

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    The Pearl by John Steinbeck talks about the a native american family that finds the pearl of the world but, throughout the book greed gets the best of them and tears them apart. Greed is the most talked about theme in the book. THis is conveyed through many characters like Kino, the doctor, and the Pearl Buyers. The pearl impacts all of the characters which causes them to be affected by greed. The doctor is a prime example of being Greedy. The book says the doctor never goes to the brush houses

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    The Pearl Greed

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    After reading The Pearl, there many people in the tragedy with many and many people were involved but only one was affected. People are being blamed for the death of Kino, and everyone is innocent. Only one person should take the blame for it. The greed is to blame for the tragedy of the baby’s death, the baby was shot by the hunter, the bullet had flew by right beside Kino. In this story all of the characters show how human nature can cause greediness. The story took place in a mexican coastal village

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    The Pearl Greed

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    The Pearl John Steinbeck's fiction novella, The Pearl, takes place in a small village in La Paz, on the coast of the Baja Peninsula. Kino, the protagonist, is a pearl diver. One day, when Kino is pearl diving, he finds a large pearl that he knows can sell for lots of money. When Kino finds the pearl he realizes that he can treat his son, Coyotito who is stung by a scorpion. Before Kino finds the Pearl, he is a nice, family man who treats his family with great respect. However, the pearl leads to

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    The Pearl Greed

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    The novella “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck follows the story of a pearl, the hope, and evil that it carries which consumes Kino and the city of La Paz. in this story we are going to witness the decision Kino make and how that drastically affects his life. Thus, throughout five paragraphs, I am going to be talking about the tragedy of Kino and his family, but most importantly who or what is responsible. I argue that greed, culture, anger, happiness, luck, death, and evil are all significant aspects

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    The Pearl Greed

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    The Pearl by John Steinbeck takes place in La Paz and examines the man’s own destruction to greed. In the beginning of the novel, the story starts to unfold when Kino and Juana’s baby, Coyotito, gets bitten by a scorpion. Since the family was poor, the doctor refused to treat Coyotito, leaving him worsening from the bite. Hope comes for Coyotito when Kino finds a huge pearl while oystering. The discovery of the pearl meant treatment for Coyotito and possibly even a rich and happy life for the family

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    The Pearl Thesis

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    The Pearl is a book written by John Steinbeck that describes a family in distress after a series of terrible events. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito form a small family that lives in a village on a beach in Mexico. Kino is the father of Coyotito and the unofficial husband of Juana. The marriage has not been conducted in the church and that is why the marriage is unofficial. Kino, like the rest of his people, is a pearl diver and hopes to make money off of selling his pearls. Kino’s wife Juana a simple

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