Greed is a strong sensation which can distort a person’s personality‚ or reveal the truth about who they really are. This is portrayed in John Steinbeck’s The Pearl‚ through the acts of Kino and the doctor. In the novel‚ simple townspeople‚ Kino and Juana‚ come across a large pearl. What started off as a way to pay for their child‚ Coyotito’s‚ scorpion medication‚ ended up turning them into greedy‚ money hungry people. The Pearl shows us that even a poor man can become greedy when coming across
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In the short novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck‚ some people are willing to do some very bad things all because of greed. People are willing to burn down homes and even kill‚ all because of a poor man’s pearl. In the beginning of our story our main characters (Kino‚ Juana‚ and their son Coyotito) are Native Mexicans who are very poor and living in a hut village on the Gulf of California‚ near La Paz (otherwise know as the town of stone and plaster). They wake up one morning to find a scorpion on the
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In John Steinbeck’s “the pearl” the main character is Kino. Juana is a mother of Coyotito. Coyotito was stung by a scorpion while resting in a hammock one morning. First‚ Juana is a housewife who takes care for her family while Kino work hard to supply for his family needs. Second of all‚ pearl changed Kino and Juana lives. Third of all‚ their reaction to pearl. The theme of the story is greed is a bad thing because sometimes it can change person to being evil. The main point of the different between
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The pearl of world; Having power is not make you happy In the world of full of selfishness‚ if you gave chance to have the power it will convey your true intention and it will shown your truly are. In the story of the pearl book Kino and Juana lived a happy good life until their only child Coyotito got bitten by a scornpion. The family most find wealth to pay for his treatment. Kino miraculously founds magnificent pearl to pay for Cayotito medicine. This is how Kino started his worst dream‚ how his
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separated in the world which John Steinbeck knew. The differences between the lower class and the upper class were very obvious. Unlike today‚ there was no such thing as a middle class. A person was either categorized as very rich or very poor. Steinbeck used his writings to share his most inner views about the society which he lived in. Steinbeck used The Pearl as an eye opener to the problems that placing roles on a society can bring. People were not treated equally‚ and‚ Steinbeck was pushing for a world
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“This pearl has become my soul‚” (Steinbeck 65)‚ said Kino‚ the main character in John Steinbeck’s wondrous book‚ The Pearl. Kino is a lowly‚ poor brush house villager given a chance to become rich and accomplish feats that only a wealthy white man at the time could do. When he found a pearl that could make him rich‚ everything changed. Greed overcame Kino and lead him to hope and wish for things no brush house man would think of. Greed can lead us to do many things‚ even when people try to stop
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most meaningful quote from “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck is “ Kino threw the pearl into the water”. This quote is the most meaningful quote because when he threw the pearl he felt that he wanted to leave all of the events that happened to him with the pearl. If this quote was not in the story‚ then the story would have ended up Kino still having the pearl and bad events would happen to him‚ for example‚ Kino makes bad decisions because he refuses to get rid of the pearl even though strangers invade
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Loved ones are the glue that hold people together. Being deprived of family causes life to be altered in a negative fashion. In the novella‚ The Pearl‚ the distance between Kino’s family causes their home to burn down and destroys the life of their son‚ Coyotito. Yet when they are together‚ life is portrayed as peaceful and care-free which is preferable to catastrophic events. Steinbeck’s catastrophes throughout the short story occur when the family is apart‚ thus proving that family should stick
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In the novel‚ “The Pearl‚” John Steinbeck presented a universal message about human nature‚ perseverance. Perseverance is the steadfastness and persistence within human nature due to stubbornness. Human are determined to achieve success despite obstacles and difficultly. Human’s perseverance can oven lead to catastrophic destructions‚ disasters‚ great damages and even loss of life. Kino’s perseverance to find a better life for his family had led Kino and his family walked all night to go north to
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novel The Pearl‚ the author‚ John Steinbeck‚ uses the pearl to symbolize many different things‚ such as hope‚ new opportunities‚ and destruction. Kino’s life was not perfect before the pearl‚ but I’m almost positive he would take that life over what he ended up with after the pearl had done it’s destruction. The pearl takes Kino and his family through these different phases and changes Kino as a man. To begin‚ the pearl represents hope and new opportunities. When Kino discovers the pearl‚ excitement
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