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The Pearl Book Report
This book is titled The Pearl and was written by John Steinbeck and has 118 pages. The Pearl is a Parable Non-Fiction story meaning that it teaches a lesson, but did not actually happen. It was published by The Viking Press, Inc. in 1945 and was written in 1944 and 1945. The Pearl is about a man named Kino who finds a pearl and he thinks it will bring him good fortune but in the end the pearl brings him many troubles, more then he would have had without it. This book teaches the statement that money is the root of all evil.
This book takes place in a Mexican village on the coast named La Paz around the 1900s and the man it is about is named Kino and his wife and young son, Juana and Coyotito. The main Protagonist is Kino; a hardworking poor native who just wants to be free from the poop lifestyle he is living. Other main character are Kino’s wife Juana who is young and does not want to be poor either but thinks the pearl is evil, and Kino and Juana’s son Coyotito who gets dangerously ill at the beginning of the story. The Pearl is a Story about a man named Kino who lives in a coastal village in Mexico and works hard to support his small family consisting of his wife, Juana, and his son, Coyotito. In the beginning Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion gets very sick and needs a doctor. Kino and his family need more money than they have in order to pay the doctor for healing their son. Kino raises the money by finding a large pearl in the ocean that is worth the doctor’s fee and then some. Eventually Kino is being hunted down because other people want the massive pearl that he now owns. The small family gets ran out of

The Pearl Greed

In the novella, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the main character deals with greed and jealousy from everyone. All of this jealousy is caused when he finds the “pearl of the world”. The moment he finds this pearl, people are trying to do anything in their will to get it going. Everyone in the town is after him to get the money for the pearl. One lesson to learn is the greed can cause people to resort to violence and trickery in order to get what they want. One of the first problems that Kino is…

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The Pearl Symbolism

or a job relocation. In “The Pearl,” by John Steinbeck, Juana and Kino’s first baby Coyotito got a scorpion bite. This caused the family the need to go out and find money, in this case a pearl. This pearl changed the lives of Juana and Kino. John Steinbeck focused deeply on symbolism to show how the pearl affected the family throughout the novella. In the beginning, John Steinbeck uses the pearl to symbolize courage, hope and luck. Kino needed to find the pearl to pay for Coyotito’s scorpion…

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The Pearl Essay

The Pearl This Essay will discuss the use of symbols in the novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck. In this novel there are many themes explored. These include the destructiveness of greed, how love can give someone great courage and strength, knowledge is power, but a power which can be abused, and how a dream is good until it starts to destroy the things of value in a person’s life. The destructiveness of greed is shown when the doctor comes to Kino's house and heals Coyotito after Kino has found…

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 using 361 planes in two waves of aerial assault. The U.S. losses included 10 ships and 164 planes, while another 128 planes were damaged. 2403 servicemen and civilians were killed and another 1178 were wounded. An imperial government is one that has one ruler. Japan ruler was an emperor; the sole head of an empire. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to protect their imperial government so they can take control of Indo-China as well as other…

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Pearl Harbor

Mike Partida T R 9:40-11:05 11/27/12 Pearl Harbor On December 7, 1941, one of the largest attacks on the United States occurred. Small mistakes that the Japanese made before the attack could have led to a better American defense, but the United States was too ignorant and too proud to think that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor. This surprise attack caught the United States off guard completely and weren’t given a chance to defend themselves. About three thousand five hundred people were killed…

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Pearl Savagery

More carelessness and savagery can be seen in Pearl as well, which is unusual and ironic based on the serious predicaments the characters around her are in. After completing the story, the audience realizes that many incidents of her observations and awareness were not done out of coincidence, but were major plot points. The falling action of the story is filled with instances of final peace, death, success, and suffering. In many instances, Pearl can be observed making insightful assumptions and…

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The Pearl Symbolism

scene depicts the moment in The Pearl in which Kino, Juan Tomas, Juana, and Coyotito, accompanied by a group of their neighbors, are making their way to the town to sell the pearl. In that moment, they believed they were literally and figuratively walking to a better future. The alley way is yellow to represent the optimism they had about their future on the way to town. Kino is black because he posses power and strength among his people as the owner of the pearl. He is outlined in red to show his…

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The Pearl Gender

Because of the gender roles, there is a patriarchal structure in society, keeping women in unhealthy relationships and promoting misogynistic violence amongst men. Kino, in a rage after Juana tries to get rid of the pearl, “struck her in the face with his clenched fist … kicked her in the side” (Steinbeck 59), and Juana is said to feel that “it was all right; she had accepted it, and she would not resist or even protest” (Steinbeck 59). Kino, acting as the aggressor…

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The Pearl Greed

The Pearl, a novella by John Steinbeck, follows the inhabitants of a small town after Kino, the main character, finds the “... greatest pearl in the world.” (25) Steinbeck chooses to highlight the terrible consequences of the characters’, and how they could have been avoided had the residents of La Paz, Mexico been less driven by greed and envy. The novella shows that excessive greed can lead to disastrous outcomes, and should therefore be avoided. In the beginning of the book, Kino and Juana…

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The Pearl Greed

A poor village family finds a great pearl that is going to change their lives forever. But, overtime the pearl changes the father and brings darkness into and around the family. Eventually the pearl changes everything, but not in the way they expected it to. In result, the pearl ends up being a symbol of darkness for the family in John Steinbeck’s novella The Pearl. The pearl functions as the main symbol of the novella and it changes through the novel in order to illustrate the theme of the destructive…

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