"The Pearl"

The Pearl

This is a piece from the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The water was a dark blue, with sunlight flittering on the waves. He could feel the warm breeze go through his long, thick, black hair just as he was about to jump in. He said bye to his wife and their sick child as he plunged into the deep blue ocean over the bed of oysters. There lies “The Pearl of The World”. While two people owned the pearl, only one made the decisions for the pearl. What would you do?
In the beginning, the two main characters Kino and Juana are different than they were at the end. For example, Kino and Juana are happy at the beginning that they can have a child to love, but at the end of the book are enraged because the Europeans killed their son Coyotito. When the book started off, Kino’s thoughts were about his family, but in the middle he was only focused on the pearl. In the beginning, Juana is happy about her family and later on she is sad about her family.
The two characters have changed but they also have influenced the plot line of the story. The tragedy story line begins with the world in chaos. For Kino and Juana, the world is in chaos because their baby, Coyotito, was stung by a scorpion and the doctor of the town won’t help them to heal their baby because they don’t have enough money. Then the story goes to a rise to power when Kino and Juana find the pearl of the world, and now they think that the doctor will help them. Next is the tragic flaw where others are trying to steal the pearl and the pearl dealers say that they won’t give Kino anything for the false pearl. The tragic fall is when Kino and Juana’s house is burned down by the dark ones. Then, they end up leaving the city to go to the capital to get the pearl bought. On the way, the trackers were following them. When they heard Coyotito’s cry, they thought it was a coyote and they fired a gun shot. The shot ended up killing Coyotito, and that was the death symbolism.
Although two people owned the pearl, only a single person made the decisions on what to do with the pearl. In The Pearl, the author made it very clear to understand what the characters looked liked, and the emotions that they expressed. Another thing that the author did well was to show how the Indian people were treated by the white people of the town.