The Pearl

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When most people wake up they hope something good will fall upon them, but most don’t think of the burden that might lurk behind the blessing. This statement could be used as the moral for John Steinbeck’s book The Pearl. The Pearl is a story of a fisherman named Kino whom found a pearl beyond price and doesn’t at the moment understand the dangers that might result from it.
As mentioned earlier I believe John Steinbeck paints a very noticeable moral. Kino is a family man that wants nothing but happiness for his family. You can infer this early in chapter 1 by recognizing the great length Kino goes through to cure his son from a scorpion bite. Kino and Juana (Kino’s wife) take their son coyotito to a doctor but swiftly gets refused because

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