"His body glided quietly across the room, noiselessly and smoothly. His hands were in front of him, palms down, and his eyes were on the scorpion." This scene plays out on page 6 of John Steinbeck's The Pearl. The setting of John Steinbeck's The Pearl takes place in La Paz, Mexico. Some interesting details that drew me into reading this novel is the storyline of the novel. The storyline relates to the storyline of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea where both protagonists from each book are fishermen, and they both venture out for a common cause of solving their problems and achieving their personal goals.
In the novel, the main characters are the are Kino and Juana. Kino is the husband of Juana and the father of his son Coyotito. …show more content…
She also maintains the house by starting the fire every morning and cleaning and cooking for Kino.
In John Steinbeck's The Pearl, the plot begins in the early morning with Kino and Juana waking up to Coyotito being stung by a scorpion. This is an external conflict which is man versus nature due to the fact that the scorpion stung Coyotito and Kino quickly killed for harming his son. This results in Kino and Juana taking their son to a doctor that longs for luxury living and denies the child if Kino does not show proof that he can pay for a doctor. Kino exceptionally does not show any money, only some pearl seeds following the doctor telling his servant to tell Kino that he is not available. An external conflict occurs between the Doctor and Kino. While meeting the doctor, the novel tells of the doctor's race beating, starving, and robbing Kino's race for nearly four hundred years, and Kino felt rage and wanted to kill the doctor. Kino then comes up with a plan to go pearl hunting to find a pearl that pays for a treatment for Coyotito. Kino and Juana get into the canoe and Kino go searching for a pearl. He goes deep diving for pearl oysters until he finds a large oyster half opened. He forces the …show more content…
This theme goes along with the novel because, Kino had plans to sell the pearl for wealth, and education for his son, and to be happy again with his wife happily married, but he is blinded to the fact that the pearl is bad luck, and desires to full-fill his dreams. "My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing." (Steinbeck 33). Instead, he receives pain and loss from his son being dead, and he also throws the pearl due to its back luck which is also horrible.
John Steinbeck's The Pearl is an amazing book and meets a recommendation. The book is for people who are willing to learn about the struggle of a couple is poverty, that strikes gold, and is willing to buy happiness, but instead receives pain for the terrible the pearl brings. The book teaches a person to love what they have, and to accept what they got, and to smile because there is beauty in the
In the novel, the main characters are the are Kino and Juana. Kino is the husband of Juana and the father of his son Coyotito. …show more content…
She also maintains the house by starting the fire every morning and cleaning and cooking for Kino.
In John Steinbeck's The Pearl, the plot begins in the early morning with Kino and Juana waking up to Coyotito being stung by a scorpion. This is an external conflict which is man versus nature due to the fact that the scorpion stung Coyotito and Kino quickly killed for harming his son. This results in Kino and Juana taking their son to a doctor that longs for luxury living and denies the child if Kino does not show proof that he can pay for a doctor. Kino exceptionally does not show any money, only some pearl seeds following the doctor telling his servant to tell Kino that he is not available. An external conflict occurs between the Doctor and Kino. While meeting the doctor, the novel tells of the doctor's race beating, starving, and robbing Kino's race for nearly four hundred years, and Kino felt rage and wanted to kill the doctor. Kino then comes up with a plan to go pearl hunting to find a pearl that pays for a treatment for Coyotito. Kino and Juana get into the canoe and Kino go searching for a pearl. He goes deep diving for pearl oysters until he finds a large oyster half opened. He forces the …show more content…
This theme goes along with the novel because, Kino had plans to sell the pearl for wealth, and education for his son, and to be happy again with his wife happily married, but he is blinded to the fact that the pearl is bad luck, and desires to full-fill his dreams. "My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing." (Steinbeck 33). Instead, he receives pain and loss from his son being dead, and he also throws the pearl due to its back luck which is also horrible.
John Steinbeck's The Pearl is an amazing book and meets a recommendation. The book is for people who are willing to learn about the struggle of a couple is poverty, that strikes gold, and is willing to buy happiness, but instead receives pain for the terrible the pearl brings. The book teaches a person to love what they have, and to accept what they got, and to smile because there is beauty in the