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The Pearl - M.R
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The Pearl
By: Malaya Reyes
Summary II
The Pearl
The Plot
Summary
Summary I
This story takes place in La Paz.
There was a fisher man named Kino, he had a happy wife named Juana. Their baby is named Coyotito, in chapter one he was stung by a scorpion. Kino and Juana get worried and go to the selfish doctor. The doctor says "Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for 'little Indians'? I am a doctor, not a veterinary."
Summary II
After the doctor says this Kino rises with anger. Kino is a pearl diver, and he finds a pearl that is worth a fortune.Everyone finds out that Kino has this pearl, they try to kill, steal, poison his baby. In chapter 5 Kino hears Juana sneaking out to throw the pearl back into the ocean. Kino gets up and runs outside, he sees her and runs up to her and strikes her in the face with his fist. Kino gets the pearl and leaves Juana at the shoreline of the ocean.
Summary III
When Kino her by the shoreline Juana almost dies by the water coming to her face. The next day when Kino had already killed that man, he has to go because they will put him in jail. Him and Juana rush to where all the canoe, when they get there. Kino's canoe is destroyed into pieces. When they take the long route to get out of the town, trackers are sent to find Kino and kill him. When they stay in the mountians, Kino has to kill the men that were sent after him. Kino ends up killing these men. When Kino goes back to Juana and Coyotito. He hears a scream; a scream of a baby. Kino gets back to the mountian and sees Coyotito and Juana. Coyotito's lifeless body is just there.
Quotes.
Quotes
“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction -- and that was conversation.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl
“The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.
He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Theme
One of the many themes in The Pearl is greed. Greed is shown when Kino doesn't let Juana throw the pearl in the water, another example of greed in this story is when everyone wants to kill/attack Kino for the pearl and have it to the pearl to themselves. Kino goes out of his way to even kill a man, and hit his wife for this pearl that he thinks will give him everything he ever wanted. But sadly in the end he did not get what he wanted.
Most unforgettable moment
Unforgettable moment
The most unforgettable moment in my opinion is when Coyotito got shot. Sadly Coyotitio died, it all happened because he cried. Juana was very sad that her first born child died.
Literary Elements
Imagery is used well in this story, when John S. summarizes the characters he gives us an idea on what they look like, sound like,and feel like.
Literary
Elements
My thought on the book
My thoughts on
the book
My thoughts on The Pearl by John Steinbeck. This book was full of suspense and tragedy, every part of the book was suspenseful, and sad. I definitely recommend this book to others who are interested in books that are tragedy's and are full of suspense.