Title: The Pearl :)Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Fiction/ Novel
Pages read: 40 (until chapter 3)
In English class, our recent novel we are studying is The Pearl, a short novel by John Steinbeck. This book is a really great piece of art, even though I have only read 40 pages so far. (Chapter 3)
In this book, the main characters are Kino and Juana, his wife. They are a really poor Indian family, that lives by the Gulf of the Sea of Cortez. Kino, is a pearl diver, which means that as his daily occupation he dies for oysters and later opens them in hope to find a pearl. Well, guess what. That one special day, exactly described in Chapter 2, Kino finds the oyster, and with hope, he crack it open. Inside, the Pearl of the World, perfect a the moon, was there. In Kino's hand, refecting his future, his wife's future, and his baby son, Coyotito )earlier stung by a scorpion). He sees it all in that one pearl, that is worth millions. But the people of the village do not see his happiness in it. Only their benefits in it. The money they will make when Kino purchases someting from them, which I consider really inappropriate, since they lived better than him earlier, and for example - refused to help his hurt son after he was stung by a scorpion *the doctor*
This book so far teaches how selfishness leads to consequences, and how cruel some people can be. But mostly it teaches a moral how one's life can change everything around.
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