John Steinbeck Animal Imagery Essay

In the novel The Pearl, author John Steinbeck uses imagery of animals to describe and compare people and the many things that happen in the town and the town itself. Imagery is figurative language used to describe objects, ideas, and actions so that we can relate to it in a better way. Animal imagery can often be overlooked but helps the mind create an image of what the writer is trying to convey. Imagery also helps you see the characteristics and details of the characters in the novel. In this part of chapter three Steinbeck uses this imagery to describe the town “A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and shoulders and feet” (pg 21 paragraph 1). This sentence from the passage symbolizes that a town has different