Curse
John Steinbeck's page-turner novella,“The Pearl”, is about the small town of La Paz, specifically Kino, an impoverished fisherman, and his wife, Juana, and son Coyotito. Kino and Juana live in peace raising their son, until tragedy strikes. Determine to not lose their first son, they receive a miracle, a supposive gift from the gods, but as good luck comes, bad luck follows. The town who were once friends, even family against him, everyone now out for Kino ready to take drastic lengths for his gift. Though all seems well, until it rapidly goes downhill and Kino must fight to save his family while grasping at straws to hold on what’s left of his sanity. One lesson the story greatly suggest is greed. Greed can reveal the worst …show more content…
In the novella, Kino becomes increasingly violent and paranoid because of sudden attacks made against his family, while the pearl’ s sinister melody hypothesis him with greed. Especially once the town becomes envious of Kino, as seen in the line, “ Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. This line shows how Steinbeck uses descriptive language to describe the townspeople feelings of Kino- how he doesn’t deserve the Pearl, they are envious, they think only they are more deserving, are the ones who need it more than Kino. Furthermore, “The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it. Which foreshadows Kino’s future, how greatly the pearl has affected the people around him. With Kino and Juana being unaware of the jealous bubbling faster than to control. The pearl isn’t a blessing more of a curse, one that can't be undone without great
John Steinbeck's page-turner novella,“The Pearl”, is about the small town of La Paz, specifically Kino, an impoverished fisherman, and his wife, Juana, and son Coyotito. Kino and Juana live in peace raising their son, until tragedy strikes. Determine to not lose their first son, they receive a miracle, a supposive gift from the gods, but as good luck comes, bad luck follows. The town who were once friends, even family against him, everyone now out for Kino ready to take drastic lengths for his gift. Though all seems well, until it rapidly goes downhill and Kino must fight to save his family while grasping at straws to hold on what’s left of his sanity. One lesson the story greatly suggest is greed. Greed can reveal the worst …show more content…
In the novella, Kino becomes increasingly violent and paranoid because of sudden attacks made against his family, while the pearl’ s sinister melody hypothesis him with greed. Especially once the town becomes envious of Kino, as seen in the line, “ Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. This line shows how Steinbeck uses descriptive language to describe the townspeople feelings of Kino- how he doesn’t deserve the Pearl, they are envious, they think only they are more deserving, are the ones who need it more than Kino. Furthermore, “The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it. Which foreshadows Kino’s future, how greatly the pearl has affected the people around him. With Kino and Juana being unaware of the jealous bubbling faster than to control. The pearl isn’t a blessing more of a curse, one that can't be undone without great