The Pearl

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Summary: Storyline and Description Keep You Reading
Review: I read The Pearl in one setting. With only 90 pages and easy to understand words, it is perfect for anyone over 12. It is a great story, but my favorite part is the description. No one does it like Steinbeck. He makes me feel like I am really there with the characters.

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Summary: Not One of his Better Works
Review: First of all, I am not putting down Steibeck, he has a lot of great works, unfortunately this isn't one of them. It really drags along at a snails pace. I appreciate the moral and lesson but I dislike how Steibeck decided to portray it. If you would like to read a great Steinbeck novel, pick up 'Of Mice and Men' or 'The Moon is Down'.

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Summary: This is definatly one of Steinbeck's better works
Review: In my opinion this book was one of Steinbeck's better pieces of work. The two main characters in the book are Kino, a Mexican pearl fisher, and his wife Juana the mother of their only child. Although these two characters are very closely related because they are husband and wife it is really much deeper than that. One would think that Kino would be a very strong individual because he is on a boat all day long battling the sea looking for the pearls. You would also think this because he talks about the song of the family and the evil music of the enemy. When in reality he is very strong but when it comes to being emotional and having to think quickly he is not really the man for the job. Then you look at his wife Juana and she is the typical mother. When the scorpion bit her son Coyotito she knew exactly how to act. You see Coyotito was lying in his cradle when Kino noticed a scorpion crawling down the rope that attached it to the ceiling. Kino knew that he had to do something so he started to slowly move towards the cradle. Then suddenly Coyotito rocked the cradle and the scorpion fell from the rope and landed right onto his shoulder. When Kino had seen the scorpion fall he dove to try and catch it but he was too late. Juana quickly grabbed the baby and started to suck the venom from Coyotito's shoulder. She knew that she had to get him to the doctor but the only one was in town and she knew that he would not see him because he never deals with the people that live on the other side of the brush fence. Despite all of this she had to try so she decided to go to the doctor herself. I really liked this book even though it was not really fast paced it was very catching and page turning. I would really recommend this book to anyone who likes John Steinbeck because it is one of his classics.

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Summary: A wonderful emotional book with adventure, action....
Review: "The Pearl" is a book I will always remember. It is such a beautiful book, I loved it! It has emotional moments but murder, also! It keeps the reader entertained throughout the entire book. To understand it, the reader must be pretty mature, but if you read it carefully I think you'll see why it is so wonderful.

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Summary: this book was kind of boring.....zzzzzzzzz!
Review: i read this book at school and i really wanted to fall assleep cause this book is the most boring book i`ve ever reed! i recomend you not to read it cause you are gona waste money for a stupid book! the ending of the book left me hanging, well a lot of the book did i hat itwhen a book leaves mefinish. I think this book has no sence at all. dont you ever read this BORING book! it is so stupid and so aufaul! i think this is the most stupid book that john steinbeck wrote! THIS IS A STUPID, BOORIN, AUFULL BOOK!

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Summary: I rather enjoyed this book.
Review: Out of all the books my English teacher has assigned me to read, this is the one I finished the fastest. Not just because it's a small book, but because I actually ENJOYED reading, and had no problem reading fifty pages a night. It kept my interest from beginning to end. Even though I was disappointed that no wealth came from the pearl (in fact, something rather AWFUL came from it), I thought the ending was a wonderful conclusion to the story. It was extremely meaningful. I recommend that you read it.

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Summary: Steinbeck's best
Review: You know, the part that kills me about the reviews I've read on this page is that it's the kids who hate this book! Somebody must be a really awful teacher to get a child to hate this novel, and has done them a horrible disservice. The opening lines of this novel are POETRY. They are beautiful, and they should begin to acquaint young minds with the evocative and descriptive power that words can have. Again, it bothers me exceptionally that the most scathing reviews of this novel have been written by youths. I'm only twenty, and already I feel like I'm becoming too jaded to enjoy this novel and these characters in their simple and innocent beauty. What are we doing to our youth if we can't even provide them with that?

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Summary: I don't like this book
Review: I think that this is not a good book, I don't understand it. I do not recommed people that don't like reading.

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Summary: Life on The Pearl
Review: In my opinion, the author should write more after Coyotito died, how his parent live do they die or they have another child.

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Summary: The Pearl
Review: My opinion of the book was that it was most of the time boring. In other words, it was the stupidest book that Steinbeck wrote like I read his books. But anyways, by the end of the first chapter, I was planning to die of boredom, and you do not want to know what I had in mind through Chapter 2-6. So my advice is if you want to live happy and live life to the fullest, do not I repeat, do not even think to read this book.