The Pearl Essay John Steinbeck’s The Pearl , is a classic novella that takes place in a small town. At the beginning of the story, a young pearl diver named Kino found the Pearl of The World. When Kino first found the pearl , his son Coyotito was bitten by a poisonous scorpion. Throughout the story , Kino and his wife Juana fight to protect the pearl from the song of evil. Later on, the couple realizes that putting the pearl before their family caused evil to come upon them. The moral of the story is putting material possessions before family can lead up to greed and endangerment. When Kino first received the pearl, it symbolized and gave Kino’s family hope. The narrator
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When the priest comes to give Kino a visit the narrator says,“The priest came in - a graying, ageing man with an old skin and a young sharp eye. Children, he considered these people, and he treated them like children. "Kino," he said softly, "thou art named after a great man - and a great Father of the Church." He made it sound like a benediction. "Thy namesake tamed the desert and sweetened the minds of thy people, didst thou know that? It is in the books." Kino looked quickly down at Coyotito's head, where he hung on Juana's hip. Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not. The music had gone out of Kino's head, but now, thinly, slowly, the melody of the morning, the music of evil, of the enemy, sounded, but it was faint and weak. And Kino looked at his neighbours to see who might have brought this song in. But the priest was speaking again. "It has come to me that thou hast found a great fortune, a great pearl."(28) This quote explains how the priest tried to manipulate and say genuine things to him. The narrator also signifies the readers that something suspicious or evil is going to happen by stating that the music of evil was faintly there. Perhaps Kino doesn’t know the cost of greed and what comes with
When the priest comes to give Kino a visit the narrator says,“The priest came in - a graying, ageing man with an old skin and a young sharp eye. Children, he considered these people, and he treated them like children. "Kino," he said softly, "thou art named after a great man - and a great Father of the Church." He made it sound like a benediction. "Thy namesake tamed the desert and sweetened the minds of thy people, didst thou know that? It is in the books." Kino looked quickly down at Coyotito's head, where he hung on Juana's hip. Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not. The music had gone out of Kino's head, but now, thinly, slowly, the melody of the morning, the music of evil, of the enemy, sounded, but it was faint and weak. And Kino looked at his neighbours to see who might have brought this song in. But the priest was speaking again. "It has come to me that thou hast found a great fortune, a great pearl."(28) This quote explains how the priest tried to manipulate and say genuine things to him. The narrator also signifies the readers that something suspicious or evil is going to happen by stating that the music of evil was faintly there. Perhaps Kino doesn’t know the cost of greed and what comes with