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Summary: This is the greatest book.
Review: I just have read this book at high school. I think this is the greatest book I ever read. But I dont like the end of this story, because it is very sad ending.The story teach us how a persons life change when he is rich and poor.I would like to rekommend this amazing book to someone who love Stenbeck.
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Summary: An English Teacher's Perspective
Review: I find it interesting that the vast majority of the negative reviews come from people who can barely craft a coherent sentence, a point I made to my 9th grade GATE class. Nonetheless, THE PEARL is not my favorite Steinbeck work, either. However, I do think that one of its messages is pertinent: that education and knowledge are keys to power and freedom from abuse. Another theme I got from the book was that it is tempting fate to try to raise one's position in the world (e.g. witness what happened to Kino and Juana when they dared dream of a better life via the pearl). I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment, although perhaps the underlying message is that a person has to *work* for what he/she earns, rather than be given it.Certainly, the book made me think, which to me is one of the hallmarks of a successful work of literature. Unfortunately, it mostly made me think rather dark thoughts.
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Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G
Review: I haven't even finished the book as of this time, but I can already tell that it will be boring. Is for the bit that I have read of it, It is very confusing and boring. I would not reccomend it and if you are a teacher, I would make your kids read something else, and not put them through the long, boring, confusing story of the Pearl. I rest my case.
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Summary: The Pearl
Review: Tanya Williams The Pearl was the most boring book I ever read in my life. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that like boring books because they wouldn't like it. I would give this book a negative 5000. It was a stupid book!
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Summary: Not for kids or teachers...
Review: I've looked at 171 on-line reviews and am astounded that no one seems to understand the theme of this book any more. This is a very serious allegory novella that is to be read on many levels. It is being trivialized in our schools by being presented out of context as a tacky metaphor about the corrupting influence of wealth. Try this, kids: Remember the parable of Jesus, "The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking goodly pearls; and having found one pearl of great price, he went out and sold everything he possessed that he might be able to buy the extraordinary pearl." "The Pearl" is, of course, the "pearl of great price"--the great spiritual truth of Jesus' message of love and service to God and man. The story of "The Pearl" is, of course, an allegory of the 2000 year tragedy of Christianity, as it appropriated Jesus and then so often lost sight of his saving message. You should be able to figure the rest out from there. "For mature audiences only"
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Summary: The Pearl
Review: I thought this book was okay...i didnt really understand it...well its about this Man KINO who is married to JUANA and they have a son named COYOTITO...Kino finds a PEARL that make Kino from Warm and Gental to Vicious and frightnen...the greed of the pearl makes coyotito get killed by a bullet and kino throws the pearl into the sea again for someone else to find it some other day...
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Summary: Teachers
Review: This is a desperate plea to all teachers; DO NOT MAKE YOUR STUDENTS READ THIS BOOK! Have them read Assassin's Apprentice (by Robin Hobb) or somthing good, NOT THIS!
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Summary: Steinbeck at his best!
Review: Steinbeck is certainly a master of short fiction. To say that this is a morality story would be an injustice. This story is more than that. It is a mirror held up to humanity wherein we can see how material riches bring out the best and the worst in our nature. His use of language is stunningly beautiful. Steinbeck is a storyteller in the highest sense of the word. Through his stories, especially this one, he shows us what its like to be human.
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Summary: Great work of art.
Review: 'The Pearl' touches the core of human existence. It has that universal touch of the discerning artist who through his little story dares to reach out and embrace the fundamentals of man's story. Kino and Juana are a poor but happy couple who dream of a happy future for their baby Coyotito. Till one day Kino finds a rare and precious pearl that attracts the jealousy of their neighbours, the greed of the rich and the influential and the commercialization of the pearl merchants. The hitherto joyous and simple existence of the couple is banished and haunted by the evils of man Kino and Juana flee from their home. Pursued by greed and violence and in search of a fair price of the pearl and intoxicated by the material prospects of it Kino and Juana hold on to the pearl till Coyotito is killed by the accidental bullet. And they return home. Steinbeck delicately spins the threads of evil and greed and materialism in man and his society and touches upon the jealousy and injustice inherent in co-existence. In a symbolic finale Juana gives up the pearl but only after paying the heavy price!
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Summary: My review of the Pearl
Review: It was a pretty good book. There were some typographical errors and a bit of redundancy, but it had a certain quality to it that was great
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