The Pearl is a 1947 novella by American author John Steinbeck. Inspired by a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Steinbeck’s novella follows the story of a pearl diver named Kino and the devastation that visits his family after his discovery of a massive pearl. Themes explored in The Pearl include greed, family, evil, and superstition.
John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depressi...
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John Ernst Steinbeck was in the course of his mixed career a common laborer, world traveler, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright. Although he will be most importantly remembered for...
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Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces ...
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John Steinbeck has the seemingly oxymoronic distinction of having been both a Nobel laureate and best-selling author and yet also one of the most underrated and misunderstood American authors of the t...
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John Steinbeck may not be known for his work as a nature writer, at least in the sense of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, or Annie Dillard, but much of his work develops character...
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Biography EssayThrough a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing so...
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." With this declaration, John Steinbeck accepted the Nobel Prize...
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Pearl Essay
The central theme of the Pearl is that greed and the struggle to overcome it is an ugly yet extremely human phenomenon which we all have experienced and which history h...
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The Pearl
By John Steinbeck
The Pearl takes place in La Paz, Mexico, based around a seemingly idealistic, loving young family, Kino and Juana, and their new son, Coyotito. Shortly after the beginn...
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Microsoft Encarta defines superstition to be an irrational but usually deep-seated belief in the magical effects of a particular action or ritual, especially in the likelihood that good or bad luck wi...
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Kino finding the pearl changed the book and it tossed and turned Kino's life. It changed how the town treated him, it changed Juana's and Kino's relationship, and it changed how he acted towards the t...
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The Pearl is a story of greed, money and materialism. These things can change anybodies life forever. The Pearl is a story about a man who finds a pearl, and it turns his family's world upside down. H...
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When ignorance traps us into having to trust the words of a knowledgeable person, we run the risk of going by the advice that may be benefiting the other person. This is exactly the paradox that Kino...
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He had a decision to make. He had found the Pearl of the world, which would save his dying baby boy who, had been stung by a scorpion earlier that day. Although he had a desperate need for this Pe...
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In the classic novel, The Pearl, Juana starts out as a normal woman for the time the book was written. She wakes up every morning and cooks breakfast for her husband, Kino (p. 2). Juana is never i...
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The human greed for things and obsession to have a better life can destroy
their lives, overall because they do not always turn out the way humans may expect them
to. In The Pearl, J...
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All of the situations that the characters faced arose from Kino finding the giant pearl. His family and all the people around him suffered greatly because of the greed that was shown towards the pe...
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Main idea- The main idea of the book is the story of an Indian fisherman, who found a big, beautiful pearl, "the pearl of the world" as it was called in the book. During all the story he tries to sell...
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In the book, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, an interesting character is Juana. She is the wife of Kino and the mother of Coyotito. The story circles around the pearl that this family found.
Juana is ...
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The pearl is a story about an native family, Kino, Juana and Coyotito living in La Paz. The starting of the story has a safe and satisfied feeling of home, which is a start of a predictable day. Unfo...
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In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the people have found out that no matter how hard they try, they will always be lied to and cheated until one of them learns to read and understand the peopl...
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Title:The Pearl
Author:John Steinbeck
Publisher:Penguin Group,New York,1992
Settings:A little town in Mexico
Major Characters:Kino,Juana,and Coyotito
Summary:Kino, Juana, and their infant son, Co...
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." This quote by Socrates perfectly describes the feelings of Kino, the main character in John Steinbeck's The Pear...
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How Kino Lost His Sight
Throughout John Steinbeck's The Pearl Kino, the main character, Kino, looses sight of what is most important to him in his life. He has a family, friends and a life. That all...
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Contrasting Characters
The socially transmitted beliefs, arts, behaviors and social patterns make up what today is known as "Culture." The author John Steinbeck is very interested and perplexed by so...
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It is some how hard to imagine how a simple man's life could be turned upside down by one little thing that you or me or anybody would think as harmless. But think again my friends. Someone once ...
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In John Steinbeck's novella The Pearl, Juana represents women. She supports her husband Kino throughout the story and cares for their only son Coyotito. She remains strong and wise when Coyotito is b...
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Analysis of Chapter One of "The Pearl"
In this chapter we hear about 3 main characters; Kino, Juana and the doctor. We hear about their personalities, how and where they live, who their family is an...
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From the novella " The Pearl", written amazingly by John Steinbeck, I discovered a few crucial themes that were portrayed in this parable which wield marvelous values, encouragements and enlightenm...
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In The Pearl, the author, John Steinbeck, uses the pearl to express what human nature is. At the beginning of the novel, the pearl that Kino finds is described as large as being incandescent a...
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Delighting in material wealth is our nature, including Kino and Juana, who found the great pearl of the world and wanted to improve their lives. After obtaining the great pearl, Kino began to create h...
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The Pearl Essay
We have all had time in our lives where greed and obsession for things to grant our desires can destroy our lives, mainly because we do not always act the way people want us to. In Th...
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Human natures reflected from The Pearl
What would you do if you find the greatest pearl in the world? This is what happened to Kino---a poor fisherman in the novel The Pearl, who accidently finds t...
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The beauty of the Pearl in John Steinbecks The Pearl is portrayed as good and as evil depending on the mood of the story. This is true because Kino can see the blood shed all around him and he still k...
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John Steinbeck's use of animal imagery further progresses the change of the protagonist in The Pearl. Kino's transition to an animal is shown vividly through Steinbeck's use of animal imagery. A vital...
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John Steinbeck's The Pearl provides a disparaging insight into the destructive nature of greed. The story is a relatively brief tale of a Native-American family living in an oppressive colonial societ...
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The Pearl Book Notes is a free study guide on The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Browse the summary below:
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