Compare And Contrast The Pearl And The Treasure Of Lemon Brown

Haven’t society ever did something that made you think was right and it turns out that life made your decision turn out differently. The novel, The Pearl was written by John Steinbeck and the fictional short story by the name of, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” was written by Walter Dean Myers. The Peal is about a poor family by the maes of Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. Kino finds a pearl that he thinks that it may have great value in which it made Kino greedy. Little did he know that his decision made his life more miserable. The Treasure of Lemon Brown is about a boy named Greg who instead of studying and listening to his father goes outsides and sees an old broken down apartment and decides to go there. He meets an old man by the name of Lemon …show more content…
“The old man (Lemon Brown) carefully took off the plastic and unfolded it. He revealed some yellow newspaper clippings and a battered harmonica. He explains to Greg what the newspaper clippings and battered harmonica mean to him.” (Myers 24) What Lemon Brown is talking about is that he gave newspaper clippings and a harmonica to his son who went to war because he wanted his son to remember his father. And so later, Lemon Brown found out that his son died in war and the soldiers who fought in the war found a battered harmonica and some newspaper clippings. “It captured the light and refined it and gave it back its silver incandescence. It was large as a seagull's egg. It was the greatest pearl.” (Steinbeck 19) Kino wanted to find a pearl so that the doctor can treat Coyotito but the pearl that he found was no ordinary pearl, but instead the greatest pearl. When he did find the pearl he thought about how he can use it but he might not know that decisions don’t go the way you think it will go. Both characters had faced the climax but they don’t know what will affect them later. They either might learn something that changes them for good or