The Pearl Essay

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The Pearl
The Pearl is very unpredictable story it changes around to drama to action and things in this story that want you to keep reading .
The Pearl was written by John Steinbeck, a famous american author who wrote The Pearl.
The pearl is a novel who talks about a man named Kino who cared and protected his family until he found a pearl and cares about it more and starts to lose his family .
What is important to life for kino changes over the courses in the story.As he coaches with internal conflict.
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For example on page 2 kino grabbed a blanket put it over coyotito’s head and nose shoulder and went outside to watch the dawn.
Another example will be when his son Coyotito got bite by a scorpion and his wife Juana wanted to see the doctor and kino said he’ll give
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After Kino finds the pearl that becomes the most important thing in his life for him.
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After Kino found the pearl, the wealth of pearl becomes most of his life.
One reason why the pearl was so important is because he wanted to sell it and put Coyotito into school and get his family some new clothes.
They played kino when he went to the place to sell his pearl the only gave him 1000 pesos and he knew it was worth much more.Juana thought the pearl was bad luck because Kino got attacked and she tried to throw it back into the ocean but Kino woke up and slapped her and got his pear back.
But juana wants kino to throw it away because she thinks it’s bad luck.
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At the end of the story kino resolves his internal conflict by throwing the pearl back into the ocean.Kino and Juana watched it winking and glimmering under the setting sun.They saw a little slashin the distance .And the pearl lays on the floor of the sea the crab settled the pearl was gone .And the music of the pearl drifted into a whisper and disappeared.Kino resolved the internal conflict
Page 5 kino went from loving and greedy and less than 2 whole

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