The Pearl

What if something seems so worthwhile, you would risk everything to try to get it? The Pearl by John Steinbeck focuses on a man named Kino. Kino found a pearl whose value was so great that it could potentially give his family everything they wanted. But Kino quickly lost sight of what really mattered and let suspicion, anger, and fear overtake him. Throughout the book, Kino’s family is subjected to multiple tragedies. A tragedy is an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, like

In The Pearl written by John, not only is Kino the main character, and cause of all the tragic events that happen throughout the book, but the pearl also was a reasonable cause. Kino only 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

Kino was planning on selling his pearl for fifty thousand pesos. When kino first found the pearl, he started dreaming about what he would do with it, something that no one has returned from. With risking his safety, family, and the pearl. We will see some examples of when he needed to make a choice that would change his life forever. When kino had to pay the doctor, the doctor wanted the pearl. But, in chapter three, Kino said, “When I have sold my pearl I will pay you.” The doctor seemed

to survive, but what some want are: expensive cars, luxuries, and wealth. Some will become consumed by wealth, leading them to selfish decisions and the inability to satisfy their needs and wants. Through imagery and symbolism, John Steinbeck's The Pearl, shows the main characters going through hardships such as despair because lack of wealth, followed by greed and then grief of a tragic loss that leads to the family tearing itself apart. Kino and Juana’s son, Coyotito, being a baby, is shown as innocent

The Pearl by John Steinbeck is about Kino and what happens to his family after he finds a pearl. The pearl has the power to change his life and make him very wealthy. However, through bad decisions, Kino learns a valuable lesson. The Pearl teaches that greed can be destructive. Kino’s search for money and power results in the destruction of his family. Before finding the pearl, he is kindhearted and loving. His wife, Juana, and his infant son, Coyotito, are his whole world. After Kino is attacked

In the novella “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck, Kino struggles throughout the book with valuing materialistic items over his family. This novella is a Mexican folk tale that originated in La Paz, Bolivia. It is about a pearl diver who is overcome by evil and greed . Kino struggles to let the Pearl of the World go because he believes he is helping his family. Kino ends up valuing the pearl more than his family. Sadly, the Pearl of the World destroyed his family because of the priorities Kino had set

novella, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino lives with his wife, Juana, and his child Coyotito. The family lives in a small village in a town where the Spanish colonized. Coyotito goes through something striking and in order to fix it, Kino finds something life changing. Throughout the story, Steinbeck shows that materialism and greed left unchecked can lead to immoral behavior shown through the unnamed trackers, the doctor, and the main character Kino himself. Kino’s attachment to the pearl causes him

In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, there are many uses of theme. This book is about a man named Kino who finds the pearl of the world and wants to sell it to help out his family. Sadly, the pearl was meant to help out the family, but ends up destroying it because of greed. Steinbeck shows that materialism and greed can lead to immoral behavior through three main characters in the book: the doctor, the robbers, and the town as a whole. When the town hears that Kino found the pearl of the world, they

The Pearl shows a simple idea of how money is not always everything. In the novella the protagonist and the antagonist show how money can never bring you so far. Kino started off with a humble life with a small yet growing family. He had Coyotito and Juana by his side, and the “song of family” whispering in his ears. “and the sound of breakfast, but those were other songs, their pigs were other pigs, their wives were not Juana.” (Steinbeck 3) In the phrase it showed that he had a certain amount

Enchanting. Glossy. A radiant angelic white. These are the words that could be used to describe at first a giant pearl called the Pearl of the World that a Native-Mexican man named Kino found. But as the story progresses, those adjectives changed dramatically as Kino first sees an innocent pearl that will save his family from poverty into Being blinded by hopefulness prevents Kino from seeing the unbearable truth until its consequences overwhelmed him. Kino is pushed through trial after trial