Summary:
The pearl, an interesting novel that teaches more than one can imagine. John Steinbeck is a talented author who captures and expresses his thoughts in the book in a special way that can be decoded and even fun to do.
It is some how hard to imagine how a simple man's life could be turned upside down by one little thing that you or me or anybody would think as harmless. But think again my friends. Someone once said expect the unexpected and i urge you to believe that statement because it is far from false. This thing I am boring your lives with that I speak about is a pearl that is disguised to the world.
Life for kino was a simple one. He was a man of very few words who lived in a poor, little Indian village, on the coast of La Paz.He had a wife named juana and a little baby boy called coyotito. Life for him was a song. There was the song of the family which woke him every morning but for some reason this particular morning he song of evil was in the air.
Coyotito lay in his hanging box but wait, something was there. A scorpion crawling gently down the ropes of the hanging box. With a swoop of its tail the loud shierks of the once playful coyotito filled the air.Kino tried but could not save coyotito from the piercing blow from the scorpion.
All the while when the scorpion crawled down the rope juana, the spiritual protector was mumbling words of prayers in the old language and the hail mary. Kino however was not pleased with his failure to his son. Kino was the physical protector to his family and was angry at himself for not killing the scorpion in time.
The doctor was a greedy person who would quicker kill his patients if he was getting more money to do so. In the book he refers to the indians as "animals." In the whole town the only people who seemed to realise that was the beggars.Juana loved Coyotito dearly and couldn't stand to see her first and only son in pain so she wanted to go to the doctor but he of course rejected.
That day Kino, Juana and Coyotito went out in Kino's canoe which he inherited from his father. They set out looking for pearls and was successful and brought back "the pearl of the world." Everyone was excited for them but many were secretly jealous for the riches in which the pearl would bestow on kino. People who ignored Kino or in the doctor's case think of them as lower class or "animals" visited them like the priest and yours truly the doctor.
That night they were attacked. Someone tried to steal Kino's "pearl of the world." it was now so obvious to Juana that the pearl was evil. She urged Kino to get rid of it but he declined. The song of evil was in the air and was coming from the pearl but Kino ignored it and by doing so put his family in danger. For kino the pearl meant more than just saving his son's life. The pearl stood for a chance for getting a better life for his family, marring in the church, sending Coyotito to school and much more. The pearl brought out Kino's dreams and for Kino this was a chance for his dreams to become reality.
They went to sell the pearl but the pearl buyers only offered a small amount far less than what Kino had expected. He made a decision to sell it else where but by doing that he was making himself and his family in more danger of attack. Kino's family was attacked that same night but this time Juana tried to destroy the pearl first. when the thief came and was wounded and their hut was burnt down they made a decision to go to another town and sell the pearl.
When they set off little did they know that the doctor hired trackers to find them to get the pearl. Coyotito was by now fine and fully recovered from the scorpian bite. when they hid in a cave Kino tried to kill the trackers but in the procees of it a stray bullet hit coyotito and he died. A sad death it was but Kino now realised what Juana was trying to tell Kino about the pearl being evil. Kino's dreams seemed to disappear because most of his dreams was for Coyotitoand now that coyotito was gone it was far too clear of the evil things the pearl had.
Kino of course went home and destroyed the pearl. he had lost everthing precious to him, Coyotito, the canoe and his hut.
This is the complete article, containing 759 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page).
