Have you ever tried to do something really nice for someone and it ended up doing more bad than good. That is what Kino does in John Steinbeck 's book The Pearl. The Pearl is about a mexican family living on the Californian peninsula in a rural area with a city close by. One day Kino and Juana’s baby boy Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion and needs medical attention but the city doctor refuses to help them because they have no money. This is where we get into the analysis. In the Pearl Steinbeck uses Kino’s Determination to better his family 's life to show how good intentions can cloud your judgment. Kinos judgment gets clouded when he searches for a pearl to pay the doctor, when he refuses to sell for 1500 pesos so his son can get an education,
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Kino grabs her and hits her to the ground and takes the pearl back. As he is walking back to the house a man tries to take the pearl but Kino is too quick with his knife and kills the man and saves the pearl. Kino does all of this because he wants to better his life for his wife and son. That may be surprising because he hurts Juana, his wife, but he does that because he thinks he knows what is best but really his judgment is clouded and she was doing the right thing even though Kino could not tell. Kinos most prized possession ,his canoe, gets destroyed because of the pearl along with his house. This is the effect of Kino trying to keep the pearl to better his family 's life. Now Kino has to run away with his family to the capital and try to sell the pearl for what he thinks it is worth because kino says “the pearl has become my soul”(p725). which it has because it had influenced all the choices he had made up to this time. As they are running these trackers are following them and Kino decides to attack the trackers instead of getting rid of the pearl. So he attacks and kills them but not before a stray bullet kills Coyotito. Finally, then does Kino realize that there is no worth to the pearl anymore and he and Juana returned to their village to start their lives over from
Kino grabs her and hits her to the ground and takes the pearl back. As he is walking back to the house a man tries to take the pearl but Kino is too quick with his knife and kills the man and saves the pearl. Kino does all of this because he wants to better his life for his wife and son. That may be surprising because he hurts Juana, his wife, but he does that because he thinks he knows what is best but really his judgment is clouded and she was doing the right thing even though Kino could not tell. Kinos most prized possession ,his canoe, gets destroyed because of the pearl along with his house. This is the effect of Kino trying to keep the pearl to better his family 's life. Now Kino has to run away with his family to the capital and try to sell the pearl for what he thinks it is worth because kino says “the pearl has become my soul”(p725). which it has because it had influenced all the choices he had made up to this time. As they are running these trackers are following them and Kino decides to attack the trackers instead of getting rid of the pearl. So he attacks and kills them but not before a stray bullet kills Coyotito. Finally, then does Kino realize that there is no worth to the pearl anymore and he and Juana returned to their village to start their lives over from