John Steinbeck The Pearl Analysis

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Has something ever had you think that it had made your life different? Well, in the novel, “The Pearl,” with the author John Steinbeck he has a pearl symbolize lots of things in the novel. Kino the main character, Kino finds the pearl and the rest of the novel is like the pearl taking control of his family life. Well the pearl symbolizes life in some occasion of the book. Also, the pearl in the novel symbolizes the corrupting power of materialism, which destroys everything worthwhile in Kino's family life.

To begin with, Kino the pearl symbolizes in the novel is life to make a living. When the town first finds Kino finds the pearl in the novel he immediately thinks he is set for life with no worry ahead of him he can get so much for him and to save his son. On page 23, “Kino pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the planes, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of every-one.” This shows how the pearl
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In Addition, Some people in the town thinks the pearl will turn Kino into a greedy, and selfish man. The neighbors in the town seen it from when Kino started asking for the things he wanted on page 24-25. But in the novel in page 26 it states what the neighbors think going to happen. “There is started. A foolish madness came over him so that he spoke foolish words. Good keeps us from such things. Yes, God punished Kino because he rebelled against the way things are.” The town things it going to hurt him and his family.

In conclusion, the pearl I think symbolizes evil in the book. But, the pearl shows so many symbolizing like greed, life, evil, and riches. The pearl get Kino super greedy. The people in the town sense the evil in the pearl and in Kino. “The Pearl,” symbolizes the corrupting power of materialism, which destroys everything worthwhile in Kino's family

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