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Summary: The Pearl
Review: They had found the pearl of the worls. The pearl was huge. They had thought th epearl would bring theen riches, but it ended up bringing the family bad luck. The family turned greedy, and it caused the death of the baby coyotito. Tho stroy ends with the pearl being thrown back into the oceans, for the pearl brought bad luck.
I like this book because the story interested me greatly. The stroy of the oearl was non lik others. It was very realistic, and the book was written very well/ It kept meh at the edge of my seat while reading it. The story was packed with action and suspense. I found the book at the library. The cover of the book showed a man and his wife, nad a baby in the ocean. The title The Pearl seemed very mysterious, When the cover page did not mathc the title, i was absu\olutely dying to find out what the title meant.
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Summary: Good lesson
Review: Steinbeck starts this book off with a dramatic scene, where the main characters Kino and Juana's infant son is about to be stung by a scorpion. Subsequently, the baby is stung when he unknowing shakes the scorpion on himself. I thought the book started off great. Then there is the class struggle. Kino and his wife Juana rush their baby to the local doctor, who obviously has no time for people who have no money. He refuses to see the infant because all Kino and Juana have to offer him are eight small worthless pearls.
Well, the baby survives and Kino, who is a pearl diver and fisherman by trade, goes diving for pearls and finds "The mother of all pearls." After he discovers this pearl, he takes it with him and gaurds it with his life. He says that his son will go to school and he and Juana will have a real nice wedding, and that he will by a rifle, and so on and so forth.
Of course, the pearl changes Kino, and because he values the pearl so much, things start to go badly for him and his family.
This story reminded me of "The Monkey's Paw" a little, and also goes to show that greed will destroy people.
There is a lot of symbolism in the book (the weather especially, and the fact that the mother of all pearls is actually worthless), so be on the lookout for it.
I recommend reading the book, because there is a good lesson to be learned from it.
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Summary: Well-written novel, but that doesn't mean you will enjoy it.
Review: A WONDERFUL BOOK FOR READERS WHO LIKE MATURE, ORIGINAL WORKS. I LIKED IT, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WILL. .... I am fifteen and like to read ...I had to read The Pearl for my English class. I used to hate books that didn't "reel me in" in the first chapter. I couldn't finish them-they were too boring. I have found that I have started to accept books that I used to hate. If you despise boring books, don't care to even think that there is symbolism in a book, and don't have the patience to read a book with a lot of description and little dialogue, this book is not for you. If you don't like books that have sentences like: "The Song of the Family came now from behind Kino. And the rhythm of the family song was the grinding stone where Juana worked the corn for the morning cakes..." or "Under her breath Juana repeated an ancient magic to against such evil, and on top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth..." you will be annoyed at times by The Pearl. You will definitely not like The Pearl if you hate books that could be summarized pretty easily in just one paragraph. The Pearl is a parable (a short story that illustrates a spiritual truth. In a parable, characters are seldom three-dimensional; instead, they tend to be flat, representing qualities rather than real-life people). You can expect good character development from Steinbeck, but remember-the characters represent qualities, such as being naive or stubborn. People who would love The Pearl have patience for the plot to develop. Also remember, this book is only around 90 pages long-that's how long an average 300 page novel would take to unravel a basic plot. If you can hold on for about twenty-five pages, the real plot comes into view. I must admit, I thought I would hate this book, but I REALLY ENJOYED IT. I like Steinbeck's writing style. I sometimes did get tired of "The Song of Evil" or other strange phrases and beliefs, but what Steinbeck has created is clever and the phrases and beliefs are worked into the story quite convincingly. The Pearl's symbolism is quite obvious; the old: "Men ought to be satisfied with what they have," or, "We desire nothing so much as that which we cannot have." To tell you the truth, this book shouldn't really be THAT boring to most people. There was SOME action and fighting. Yes, Steinbeck does tend to overdo it with description, but is that necessarily a bad thing? He IS known as a describer (one of the best). Relationships between characters, themes, morals, and symbolism always occur in his books. If you ... want a great short story to read on a rainy day, pick up The Pearl, you should enjoy it.
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Summary: I'm sorry I read this book
Review: John Steinbeck took an interesting folk story and thoroughly overprocessed it. He doesn't spoonfeed you the morals of the book, he uses a big shovel. That poverty is blissful, and wealth will only destroy happiness, is ground in from page one. It doesn't take long (a few days?) for anonymous residents of Kino's otherwise utopian village to burn his house down, steal his boat, try to kill him, and chase his family out of town with horses and guns. All for a pearl which the brokers won't buy.... To achieve a similar effect, hit yourself on the head with a rubber mallet and read a few chapters of the Bible. This way you will experience tedium, moral lessons, and a headache without paying ... for an 80 page book.
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Summary: Decent, but only for younger audiences
Review: This book shows the ravaging that avarice can cause a man and his family. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Perhaps it would be, if it were handled by a better author. The story drags along and describes every last movement, with virtually no dialogue or action. The ending was the only good part, because it was hardly expected, but the rest of the book was a huge dissapointment. I hope nobody will read this book for pleasure, because the entire plot could be summarized in just one paragraph. The rest of the ninety pages is unneccessary description that just defers readers
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Summary: THe best book ever written.. at least by a human...
Review: i happen to find this boook the best in the entire world.. it touched me so much.
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Summary: it was AWFUL!
Review: I just finished reading this AWFUL book in english class. Thank goodness it was short, only a SMALL waste of time, but that is all it is. Why do you have to give it even one star? Why do English teachers force us to read this? and WHY do people LIKE this book?? i am confused about why it has to many stars overall. anyway, i would recommend buying it if you have the need to burn something very badly, very very badly.
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Summary: The Pearl and the ending
Review: The pearl is a book full of anger, sadness and misfortune. the ending added to this. the ending of the pearl was expected by all its readers as steinbeck hinted it to us the whole way through. for example when kino told juana to make sure Coyotito did not cry we immediately think something is going to happen to him. the ending came to a sudden hault and left us feeling confused with many unanswered questions such as who killed Coyotito? i admit i still do not know!steinbeck used his skill to describe nature in a long descriptive way which can bore his readers! and he forgot to give us an understandable and exciting ending instead it was quite perdictable. after so much anger and hurt they threw the pearl away and then suddenly ends! i was expecting some greedy pearl diver to jump in after it! it left me very confused!
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Summary: Defenetely worth a read
Review: This book of John steinback is defenetely worth a read,
The author was not only able to capure the whole emotion of the characters of kino and juana...but also the surroundings, beautiful!!!...I really like the way he uses " the song" paradigm through out this short novel.Defenetely worth your 2 hrs(approximately runs into 100 pages).
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Summary: Why aren't there negative stars???
Review: I HATED this book. I have liked other Steinbeck novels, but this was horrible. It was slow and gory. I like some sad books, but this went too far. There wasn't a slight bit of non-depressing text. Realistically, no one's life is THAT bad. Why was this published?
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