And finally when the news had been known for sure, many people in the town started to act differently towards Kino and his family. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom”. We can see that clear in the start of chapter three, Quoting The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town. The pearl has not only had a negative effect on Kino, but a negative effect on the whole village of La paz. Before Kino finds the pearl Juana and his baby, Coyotito, was his life. I believe that Kino is overwhelmed with some kind of bliss. That is one of many examples of what that has come out of the finding of the pearl. The town becomes jealous at Kino for finding the pearl of the world, and there are several attempts to steel the pearl from Kino. His son will become educated, he will buy material things for his wife and himself. Through the selling of the pearl he dreams of how happy he will become. He would nevertheless give it up, quoting '’This pearl has become my soul,’ said Kino. Kino finds a big pearl, however this was not an ordinary pearl, but “the pearl of the world”.įrom there, you see an ordinary man, who loves his family and friends, give it all up to make him self richer. To get a doctor for Coyotito, they had to come up with some money. Then one day a scorpion stung his little Coyotito. He had a mate called Juana, and a little baby called Coyotito. To begin with, Kino was a poor Mexican fisherman. And the changes in Kino has showed the readers how greed can change a normal man and his life. However this has been a very dramatic story, from the beginning to the end. The story ends with Kino throwing the pearl away. “And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared….” I think that Steinbeck manages to describe the feelings of people and the life in the small village, in a superb way!

However, within its simplicity is the great complexity of a tale filled with imagery and symbolism.

The story tells us not only of the lives of the poor who seek to live off the land, but of the struggles of all people. However, this a story filled with love and pain. Steinbeck’s characters in the pearl are not the rich men and women of Mexico, but are the homeless, the pearl divers, the poor fishermen, and the farmers. Steinbeck writes in a way that makes his characters look very realistic, and makes the seacoast of La Paz, Mexico come to life. He has written some other novels such as Cannery Row, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 1902.

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