The pearl Essay -- essays research papers

The PearlIn the novel, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, we meet Kino, his wife, Juana and their baby, Coyotitio. Kinos family lives in a grass hut in the poor, fishing village of La Paz, Mexico in the 1920s. Their lives are disrupted when a vicious scorpion bites Coyotito. The only way that they can make for help were they live is to have enough money to pay the local doctor. Kino goes pearl diving and discovers a pearl that is worth millions. It appears that Kino has gone(a) from having nothing to being able to get whatever his dreams desire. But in literature, as in life, things are not always as they appear to be, and the pearl ends up bringing them things that they never expected.Kino has lived a hard life. He works hard and gets very little out of it. His fa...