"The Pearl" Final Reflection

The novel "The Pearl" was a very good, and in some parts of the book it was a little hard to understand what the author meant but as I went on to read a little more I understood what the author was trying to say. To me the lesson that John Steinbeck tried to put in here was when you get to attached to an object bad things can happen to things that you love. The object in the book was the great pearl Kino got so attached to it that he made his family go with him to the capital city and he let his family be in danger with trackers following them and in the end he throws the Pearl in the water. The thing that he loved was Coyotito and in the end when he was trying to protect his family from the trackers he ends up just hurting his family because Coyotito ends up getting killed.