A Message Ignored: The Pearl By John Steinbeck

“And to Kino the secret melody of the maybe pearl broke clear and beautiful, rich and warm and lovely, gloating and glowing in triumph.” (Steinbeck 20). This is one of many memorable quotes from John Steinbeck’s classic, The Pearl. While this story is composed of only eighty-seven pages, the author packs the book with more meaning and teaching than many authors have been able to in hundreds. Set in a small village in La Paz, Mexico, the tale deals with many topics, themes, and issues.

By showing these extreme actions, Steinbeck shows how complex human emotions can be and how internal struggles can affect a person and change the way they see

Steinbeck wanted to show that the selfish ones who were fortunate had the strength and the will power to aid the ones who

John Steinbeck is a very kind man who cares greatly for his surroundings and the outdoors. Steinbeck believes every creature around him deserves to live their life with no interference. He cares for all things that live on the planet, so why should he kill one of them. The conflicts that John Steinbeck experienced in the travel literature, Travels With Charley, help to teach people better ways to resolve their conflicts.

He shows a compassionate realization about man vs. nature and that specific conflict’s details. This story teaches a lesson about the reality of human existence. Most of the characters including Lennie, George, Crooks, and Curley’s wife somehow show that they have once had a sense of loneliness. Each aspire having a friend to comfort them when they are down, but will also be all ears for anyone who needs advice. Steinbeck basically lived a similar life which is also why he wrote this novel.

Steinbeck wanted to show the effects of land ownership and what pursuing dreams can do to people. This lesson is still true to this day and affects everyone around

John Ernst Steinbeck has written many award winning novels, some of which has even been produced as plays that captured audiences everywhere. Steinbeck wrote about real life experiences using realism, characterization, and dreams to emphasize his points and make an impact on his readers in order to reform or change society. The realism used in Steinbeck's works is not only effective in informing the reader of circumstances that should be changed, but this nineteenth century literary style also creates great feelings of empathy toward the characters and their dreams. Steinbeck used realism to convey his points for a purpose, and his main purpose was that he wanted something to be made known to the public. Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of

John Steinbeck, an author Alameda Unified School District has approved of for years, shares strong ideas with English students at Alameda High. In John Steinbeck’s passages such as Of Mice and Men and The Pearl, set in the early 1900’s, he reaches out to the people among society who live without a voice and sends moral lessons to his readers. Of Mice and Men describes a setting during the Great Depression where two friends, Lennie and George, attempt to fulfill their American Dream by earning money from local workstations. Lennie, having mental disabilities struggles with controlling his emotions and being disliked by the boss’s son, Curley, creates problems for the two at their new job. Meanwhile, The Pearl voices the life of a family, a couple

“What is life, what is death, and what do they mean?” The answers to this question are “Life is a process, death is part of life, neither life nor death means anything-they simply are; and the important things in life are love and beauty, which bring joy to the process of living. These answers are the philosophy of John Steinbeck ” (Benson 555). John Steinbeck was a major American writer who has written many books, which have come to be known as classic American stories. Examples of these classic stories are The Grapes of Wrath, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck is worthy of the praise he has received for his contributions to American literature because he added a new genre as well as a new narrative device, depicted the lives of the poor, and went to great lengths to produce his many books.

Steinbeck’s relevance in themes, characters and figurative language to indicate the deep cruelty of the human nature. Does this make John Steinbeck an optimist, pessimist or a realist in his portrayal? How does he aim to bring the truth out? What thematic truth does Steinbeck offer through his portrayal of themes, characters and figurative language?

The Pearl written by John Steinbeck is a parable, a story that teaches a moral lesson. The focus of this novel is on a poor Indian family. The family consists of three members: Kino, a husband, father, and fisherman, Juana, his wife and loving mother; and Coyotito their infant son. This indigent family lives in a small brush hut along the Gulf of Mexico by the town of La Paz. One day Coyotito, is bitten by a scorpion; a scorpion sting can be deadly to a baby. Kino and Juana are very worried over the health of their baby; therefore, they hope to find a pearl worthy enough for the doctor’s payment to the doctor to treat Coyotito. With luck on their side, Kino finds a pearl the size of a seagull’s egg; he calls it “The Pearl of the

The Pearl written by John Steinbeck is a parable, a story that teaches a moral lesson. This novel is centered on a poor Indian family, who live in a brush hut along the Gulf of Mexico and by the village of La Paz. The family consists of: Kino, a fisherman and pearl diver, his wife Juana, and their infant son Coyotito. One day while diving, Kino discovers a great pearl that he calls, “the pearl of the world” (22). The theme of a literary work is defined as the central idea, concern or purpose about life that a writer wishes to convey. There may be several themes identified in a literary work; however, in John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl the author uses the pearl to develop one of the most essential universal themes in literature, that of

In the novel The Pearl written by John Steinbeck published in 1947 there is a family of rural under average mexicans. The father of the family Kino was a pearl diver and he finds “the great pearl of the world”. His wife Juana is a very wise female and, she tells him about the evils of the pearl and, their baby Coyotito who inevitably leads them to the pearl. Although the pearl was bringing them hope for their child's future it also brought conflict toward Kino and his family. Kino,Juana, and Coyotito faced the three main types of conflicts: person vs nature, person vs person, and person vs self.

The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck perfectly encapsulates the stringent economic and social divide among the poor and the rich not only on the basis of wealth but also ethnicity and historical divide. This is highlighted by the fact that there was frustration among the people of the village due to their oppression at the hands of their European colonizers. The living conditions of the town were thus very poor. They lived in brush houses and wore ragged clothes, without proper housing or even sanitation. While the European descendants lived in stone houses, surrounded by walls, the Indians, who had been subjugated for over 400 years lived in grass shacks with muddy floors. The situation of the town could be subsequently

John Steinbeck’s The Pearl follows the story of a Mexican-Indian family who lived in a small village on the coast of the Baja peninsula during the colonial era in Mexico. Kino works tirelessly as a pearl diver to provide for his wife, Juana, and Coyotito, his son. Although he was poor, he and his wife were initially satisfied with their lives. However, Coyotito’s scorpion sting and the discovery of the Pearl of the World opened Kino’s eyes to a much larger world. His simple, peaceful life was marred by the violence and conflict that the pearl brought. The pearl, which incited greed in all who come in contact with it, changed from a symbol of hope to that of chaos and misfortune.