Pearl Jam

The Pearl Ch.1 Kino awakened in the dark. Kino looked where coyotito slept.Coyotito spots the scorpion on a rope. Coyotito reaches for the scorpion and stung him. Juana grabs Coyotito at once and attempts to suck the venom out of his wound. Juana asks Kino to get the doctor. CH.2 Crabs and lobsters poke out from their holes. Algae and sea horses drift aimlessly in the nearby currents. Dogs and pigs scavenge the shoreline for sea drift in the hazy morning. They push the canoe into the water and…

"In the town they tell the story of the great pearl- how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotio. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man's mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in- between anywhere.” The Pearl by John Steinbeck is a short hundred…

Disturbance, nuisance, annoyance: words that are often used to describe the catalyst to one of nature’s most sublime undertakings: the conception of a pearl. As implausible as it may seem, the process through which such magnificent phenomenon develops is triggered by a speck of sand that makes its way into an oyster. The oyster responds by coating the intruder in an attempt to mitigate the pain. This coating, however, serves to amplify the pain rather than alleviate it as was…

What might the pearl symbolize? The pearl symbolizes many things, yet one symbol really sticks out to me- evilness. Although the pearl may bring many riches and lots of prosperity, in The Pearl, it seems that Steinbeck is attempting to portray evil though this metaphor. On page 23, the news of Kino’s discovery had reached everyone in the city, and “all manner of people grew interested in Kino”. Before Kino had discovered this pearl, he was just an Indian that lived along the sea in a…

later changed your attitude or outlook based on events or situations that have taken place? In the novel, The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck and the fictional short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, this is exactly what happens. The Pearl is about a man named Kino who finds a large pearl to help his son who was stung by a scorpion. However, men try to steal the pearl and attack Kino, leading him to show no mercy and kill them, which causes him to run away and ultimately…

morally ambiguous character, Hawthorne is able to leave the reader in a perpetual state of apprehension regarding Pearl’s true moral alignment. From the moment Pearl is born, the little girl is treated like an outsider, and as a figure of evil and possible satanic origin. This view of Pearl comes forth in the personality during her early years. Pearl does not fit in with the rest of the children around her because of her connection to sin and evil. She is not pure enough to live amongst the…

own experiences? In the novel “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck and the fictional short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” written by Walter Dean Myers this is exactly what happens. In “the Pearl” Kino’s son Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion and they try to seek instead finding a beautiful pearl with bad luck and it brings greed to the once caring Kino causing him to kill 4 men trying to get the pearl and loses his son to one of the trackers, Only to throw the Pearl back into the ocean. In “the…

in The Pearl, “Flight”, and The Moon is Down through many of the characters actions and decisions. Through The Pearl, The Moon is Down, and “Flight,” John Steinbeck demonstrates various positive and negative responses to stress. In The Pearl, the main character ,Kino, has many negative responses to stress throughout the plot. Kino faces many stressful situations in which he responds to stress in a negative and foolish ways. When Kino was being chased and trying to be stripped of the pearl,…

In the story, The Pearl and in today’s society there are a lot of things that people have gained and lost. In the book and in today’s society, there are ways that people can hurt one another. I think that was bad how Kino and Juana were treated by the doctor. I also think that it is bad how we are treating people that aren’t the way we are, or that look different from each other. The theme of The Pearl is how money changes who you are. I think that is the theme because of how Kino and Juana…

before that the pearl will bring disastrous consequences, but he didn’t listen and now his son had died. Out of all the poor choices that Kino had made he finally made one good choice. He walked to the water’s edge and flung the pearl into the ocean. Since his house was burned down, he walked towards our home with his head hanging down in guilt. They entered our home and we closed the door so no one sees Juana and Kino weeping. “I made a mistake, brother. I should have thrown the pearl away…