“Money: The Strength In Evil” It is more likely for a person to get struck by lightning than to win the lottery. And even if a person were lucky enough to win, nearly 70% of all people that win the lottery go bankrupt within a few years. In The Pearl written by John Steinbeck, Kino and Juana, local village people, get lucky enough to find the pearl of the world, but unfortunately their son Coyotito gets extremely sick and they have to try and sell the pearl to help him. In the book, the pearl causes a lot of problems in Juana and Kino’s life, and because of that, they learn that money cannot buy happiness.
In The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the pearl that Kino gets, takes away many things that he loves. At one point in the story coyotito died …show more content…
One example of this is when the doctor wouldn't help kino because he had very little money and he didn't like kinos race, but once kino had the pearl the doctor wanted to help. The narrator and doctor explain,“ And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time. ‘He is a client of mine,’ the doctor said. ‘ I am treating his child for a scorpion sting.’ And the doctor's eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris” (22). This shows that money makes people greedy because the doctor lied to one of his patients who was telling him about the news. Also, earlier in the book every one of kinos neighbors was there when the doctor said he wouldn't treat coyotito and now coyotito is apparently his patient because the doctor wants money and wants to go to paris. the final reason why money makes people greedy is when the pearl buyers try to scam him out of 500,000 pesos. At this point in the story, the pearl buyer explains, “‘You have heard of fool's gold,’ the dealer said. ‘This pearl is like fool's gold. It is too large. Who would buy it? There is no market for such things. It is a curiosity only. I am sorry. You thought it was a thing of value, and it is only a curiosity.’... Now Kino's face was perplexed and worried. ‘It is the Pearl of the World,’ he cried. ‘No one has ever seen such a pearl’"( 48-49). This shows that the pearl buyers where greedy because they were trying to tell kino that the pearl has so much value that it's almost like it has no value or that the pearl is fake. kino knew that the pearl was real because he got it straight from the oysters mouth and he knows it has to have value somewhere else like the capitol. Kino was unable to trust anyone Because people became so greedy when they found out about the
In The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the pearl that Kino gets, takes away many things that he loves. At one point in the story coyotito died …show more content…
One example of this is when the doctor wouldn't help kino because he had very little money and he didn't like kinos race, but once kino had the pearl the doctor wanted to help. The narrator and doctor explain,“ And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time. ‘He is a client of mine,’ the doctor said. ‘ I am treating his child for a scorpion sting.’ And the doctor's eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris” (22). This shows that money makes people greedy because the doctor lied to one of his patients who was telling him about the news. Also, earlier in the book every one of kinos neighbors was there when the doctor said he wouldn't treat coyotito and now coyotito is apparently his patient because the doctor wants money and wants to go to paris. the final reason why money makes people greedy is when the pearl buyers try to scam him out of 500,000 pesos. At this point in the story, the pearl buyer explains, “‘You have heard of fool's gold,’ the dealer said. ‘This pearl is like fool's gold. It is too large. Who would buy it? There is no market for such things. It is a curiosity only. I am sorry. You thought it was a thing of value, and it is only a curiosity.’... Now Kino's face was perplexed and worried. ‘It is the Pearl of the World,’ he cried. ‘No one has ever seen such a pearl’"( 48-49). This shows that the pearl buyers where greedy because they were trying to tell kino that the pearl has so much value that it's almost like it has no value or that the pearl is fake. kino knew that the pearl was real because he got it straight from the oysters mouth and he knows it has to have value somewhere else like the capitol. Kino was unable to trust anyone Because people became so greedy when they found out about the