Innocence In John Steinbeck's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

The Pearl by John Steinbeck coordinates back to “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, as Kino discovers the pearl of the world and comes to understand that innocence may not always remain through his experiences of a given opportunity, life continuing to move on, and the theme that change is inevitable. With a line of blood on his blade, Kino wakes up the next morning to the sight of the pearl and the great promises it held. The glisten of the alluring pearl brought “its music of promise and delight, its guarantee of the future, of comfort, of security” (39). Kino sees through the pearl that it means importance and that life will significantly depend on the accident of a grain of sand. When flames blaze from his brush house in the village,