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John Steinbeck Novels. I have recently finished reading John Steinbeck's
"The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Pearl". These two and many ...
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I have recently finished reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The
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Pearl". These two and many other of Steinbeck's books have a couple of things in
common. The first thing is that they are all about poor people/families. The second thing
is that they are almost always terribly sad in the end. The third thing they share is that I
enjoy each one very much. I have never read a book by John Steinbeck that I did not like,
even though his books do not exactly cheer me up.
"The Pearl" is about a poor man named Kino, his wife Juana, and their baby boy
Coyotito. Kino is a pearl diver, but since there are so many other pearl divers where he
lives, he very rarely finds any valuable pearls. In the very beginning of the book, Coyotito
gets stung by a scorpion and becomes very ill. Since Kino and his family are very poor,
they cannot afford to get Coyotito a doctor. The very next day, Kino finds a pearl beyond
his wildest dreams. Word spreads through the town about Kino's amazing pearl and the
pearl buyers make a deal with each other to offer Kino very little for his pearl. The
doctor, however, thought that kino would soon have enough money to pay for his son's
cure, so the doctor cured Coyotito. The next day, when Kino went to town to sell his
pearl, he refused to give it to the pearl buyers for such a small amount of money. After a
few attempts by unknown people to steal the pearl at night, Kino killed an intruder to his
home in the night. They knew they had to run away and they did. They were extremely
careful, but they were still unable to elude the people searching for them. One night, as Kino was trying to get rid of the people hunting them, one of the "hunters" shot and killed
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