Essay On Kino In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Kino was attacked by mean trying to steal the pearl. He killed one of them in self-defense but Juana tells him that does not matter. He will still face consequences from the townspeople once the body is found in the morning.

both seemed to turn onto the good side with Kino as soon as they found out he had the pearl of all time. People started breaking in, messed Kino’s canoe and even set Kino’s house on fire. And worse, with everything that was already being taken away, Kino’s beloved son was shot and killed. “And then Kino’s brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound-the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death”(86) All shortly happening after the finding of the pearl.

There are many examples of physical violence in the novel which creates the image of Kino's transition of simple life into a more complicated one. As the novel progresses after Kino finds the pearl of the world, Kino gets cautious because he had a thing of great value which could turn the evil faces of his townspeople against him. As he foreshadowed, that happens. When the news of Kino's pearl spread like fire in the whole city, most of the people got jealous of his fortune. People starts making inferences what might happen in the future, while some others made plans to cheat him.

In the Novel, The Pearl, Kino’s greed leads to his downfall because he does not sell the pearl, he fights for the pearl, and he believes that the pearl can change his family’s life.

When Kino saw that she had the pearl rage surged in him and he rolled up onto his feet and followed her. She looked over Coyotito then she walked out the door. She headed down the path slowly but quietly. At last she reached the edge of the water and she drew her arm back like a bow the right as she went to throw the pearl to the deeps whack! Kino struck her in the face and she stumbled to the ground were Kino began to kick her. Then Kino stopped and began his walk back up to the hut. Kino’s greed and want for the pearl blinded him. He lost sight of what really mattered and in the aftermath, he left his hurt and beaten wife. He did not even hesitate when he struck her down, it was as if he knew her not. This time when the rage came over Kino he beat his wife, but what will happen the next time that Kino rages out and he cannot control his

However, Kino was enraged with anger at Juana for trying to throw away his pearl. The pearl had changed him for the worse, it had become part of him he loved the pearl. Kino would do anything to make sure that nothing would happen to it, even if it meant beating up his wife in order to save his pearl.

First of all, Kino changed drastically from the beginning to the end of the novela. Kino went from kind-hearted person to a selfish person. For example in Chapter 5, “He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders and he kicked her in the side” (58). Kino used to love Juana but after he beat

To begin, Kino was extremely changed at the conclusion of the story than he was in the opening. Before he found the pearl, Kino was content with his life. However,

In an area of the book, Kino’s greed was leading him to behave violently toward his wife. In The Pearl, Chapter 5 pg. 48-49 states that,”Her arm was up to throw when he leaped at her and caught her arm and wrenched the pearl from her. He stuck her in the face with his clenched

Kino was a song man, that he hear a song that represent his situation or what going to happen with him. There were several different songs that he hears such as: family song, evil song, and dreams songs. At the beginning the songs were so delight, but then the pearl’s greed killed this delight songs and Kino start to lose everything and the songs start to be all about evil and Fear. “For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world” (Wilde 224) this quote represents Kino’s situation and how he was hiding his vision of the demolition.

To begin with, one of the major changes that you see in Kino is his determination. Throughout the story Kino Becomes more determined to achieve his goals. When Kino is saving Coyotito he gradually becomes more bent on save him. “‘The doctor,’ she said.

At this point in the book Kino will do just about anything to keep the pearl, resulting in his family having to run because of his actions. Kino violence is again shown when they enter the mountains to get away from the trackers. He thinks the only way for them to truly escape is to kill them all, his plan results in Coyotito getting shot. Kino’s faith in the pearl was only because he thought it was their “chance” to let Coyotito have a better life, but all of Kino’s choices and actions end up with Coyotito getting killed. These pieces of evidence show that the pearl changed how Kino acted toward his family and put them in

Kino’s search for money and power results in the destruction of his family. Before finding the pearl, he is kindhearted and loving. His wife, Juana, and his infant son, Coyotito, are his whole world. After Kino is attacked by someone trying to take the pearl, Juana tries to throw it back in the ocean.

After traveling long and fighting against the whole world, first with his town filled with people trying to steal it, then fighting for the money, then against himself and finally against the trackers, he was left weak, and there was no more strength to fight anymore. “The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience” (Steinbeck 88). His struggles with the pearl have left him dehumanized and stripped of emotions because after so many battles with himself and others, it has ruined the pearl’s value by taking away the shine and leaving a dusty grey as all of his original plans of a wedding, new clothes and an education for Coyotito have turned into memories of traumatic moments. “And in the surface of the pearl, he saw Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away.” (Steinbeck 89). Family was the strongest part of his life because it was Kino’s only power throughout his life, which is why when he returns back to his village, people don’t recognize him as he walks through people unbothered by their staring eyes that glare right through the hollowed soul, making them feel scared. Whether Kino can’t feel anymore or chooses to disconnect himself from that battle is a mystery, but, he is still left as a dehumanized

The pearl's evil infects Kino like a ravaged disease and consumes his mind. He starts off with good intentions, but they become twisted. He wants to sell the pearl and use the money to better his family's lifestyle. He has dreams and goals that each depends on the pearl selling for a good price. Juana sensing the evil and greed coming from Kino attempts to destroy it. Kino beats her unmercifully. "He struck her in the face and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side...He hissed at her like a snake and she stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a butcher." Juana sees through the outer beauty of the pearl and knew it would destroy Kino and herself. Kino's vision from the soul becomes blurred by the possible prosperity the pearl will bring. The evil invades Kino's life as well as everyone he knows and loves.