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Have you read The Pearl, The Bicycle, and The Nest? If not, I will tell you the similarities between these three novels and why the three main characters of these short stories are bad role models for young people. Kino committed a crime, Hanna didn’t follow her aunt’s commands and Jimmy disobeys his parents.

Firstly, Kino was about to hurt the attacker that came to Kino's house. The attacker threatened and challenged him. “His right hand went it his shirt and felt his knife”. (P55 Chapter 4 Steinbeck). He didn’t hurt the attacker, but he still attempted to kill the attacker. Next, Kino stabbed the first tracker then he stole his rifle and shot the last two trackers.“The great knife swung and crunched hollowly it bit through the neck and deep into the chest”. “He grasped the rifle even as he wrenched free his knife''.(Chapter 6, P86, Steinbeck). He killed the three trackers to prevent them to steal the pearl. Kino was a good role model in the beginning but after he attempted to sell the pearl. He became violent over the course of reading this short novel.
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She rode a bike when one of her commands is she cannot ride a bike.“I pushed the bicycle to the end of my street. My family was occupied, and aunt Rose was taking a nap”. (P3 Horton). She promised her aunt that she wouldn’t disobey her two commands, but she broke her promise, and she was late on Shabbos. “Where do you go on Shabbos that you don’t tell anyone where do you are going”.(P3 Horton). The second rule is she must be observant of the Shabbos, and she has to come to Shabbos before sunset. Before she rode the bike, everything was going in the right directions until she broke her two

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