Maria Tallchief

Though The Pearl may be a short book, only 83 pages to be exact, it really contains a great story and teaches an amazing lesson.The moral of John Steinbeck’s parable is that you should not let greed overcome you. You should be grateful for what you have and not want more. Greed can be an evil thing, and three ways that Steinbeck shows greed in the story is through characterization, symbolism, and foreshadowing. Characterization is an important element in The Pearl. It’s one of the ways that John…

In chapter six of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, he develops the idea of disillusionment, an example of this is when Paul gives the description of the shelled school house, “stacked up against the longer side is a high double wall of yellow unpolished brand new coffins” (99) of all the soldiers who will die at the front which could end up being Paul and his comrades. Tjaden says this due to the fact that he knows, an abundance of the soldiers are going to die at the…

“He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the sides”. In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino, a poor villager, finds a pearl that shifts his life around. With hopes of a brighter future, Kino, Juana, his beloved wife, and Coyotito, his son go to the local market in hopes of a deal to sell his prized pearl. After a salty deal, in which Kino does not receive the amount of money he feels is fair, given by the buyer. Kino gathers his…

In the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino is a pearl diver who lives with his wife Juana and baby boy, Coyotito. While searching for a pearl to save Coyotito, Kino discovers the pearl of the world. Within hours the whole town of La Paz hears of Kino’s new discovery, everyone wants a piece of the Pearl of the world. The idea of getting a piece of the pearl places a longing desire in the townspeople's hearts, this changes the way kino and his family live day to day and how the whole town…

In The Pearl, John Steinbeck writes about a man named Kino, who lives in La Paz, Mexico. Kino finds a great pearl that he decides to sell in order that he will be able to pay for a life of luxury for his wife Juana and son, Coyotito. He runs into trouble when the greed of people is brought out. His wife, Juana, forwarns Kino that the pearl is evil. Kino does not listen and goes ahead with his plan to bring his family to the capitol to sell the pearl. Juana tries to throw the pearl in the ocean…

Remarque introduced Paul Bäumer as a nineteen-year-old soldier in the German army during World War I. Paul is the narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as the protagonist and peacekeeper throughout the plot. Many of the other characters in the book are presented as being more intelligent or more ignorant than others, but through his actions Paul can be seen as the optimistic, sensitive and detached soldier of the group.Paul acts as kind good man who tries to do the right thing and…

The well-crafted novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck is an amazing parable colored with vivid descriptions, specific wording, and great character growth. Kino, one of said characters, is a pearl diver, father, and husband, and is often portrayed as the absolutely normal man who lives an absolutely normal life. Little does he know that a grave amount of bad luck comes with what he believes is a great fortune. Kino’s greed for the “Pearl of the World”(Steinbeck 50) blinds him from his benevolent…

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, paints war in a realistic, brutal manner as opposed to romancing war. As narrated by the young German soldier, Paul Bäumer, the novel portrays how the atrocities of World War I transform an idealistic, nationalistic, young nineteen-year-old into a lost soul who is unable to envision a life outside of the war. Born in Germany in 1898, Remarque himself served in the war and spent time on the Western Front until severely injured in 1917. He…

The Common Theme Of Tragedy All soldiers endure traumatic experiences that have a similar effect on them for the rest of their lives. The themes of horrors of war and how the young soldiers lives are changed for the worse are both prevalent in both Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Sassoon’s “Suicide in the Trenches.” The soldiers lost their youth while away in the trenches. While both Remarque and Sassoon exemplify the horrors of war and the theme of the lost generation, Sassoon…

The Pearl was written by John Steinbeck in 1947. This type of book is known as a novella. This means that it is a short novel or a long short story. The genre is parable or allegory. These are stories that usually have a hidden moral or political meaning within them. The book sets place in a small village in La Paz. La Paz is on the Coast of The Baja Peninsula. John Steinbeck was inspired to write The Pearl after visiting La Paz. Here, pearls from the sea are valued more highly than…