The Pearl

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Summary: The Pearl
Review: I really liked this book. It changed so much from the beginning to the end. At the beginning, it was talking about how nothing would always stay the same and never chang. Then all of the sudden . . . oops . . . it changed BIG TIME! The saddest part of this whole book was at the end. I never cry at a book . . . UNTIL THIS ONE. It was wonderful.

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Summary: The Pearl
Review: The Pearl was an extremely interesting book written by John Steinbeck. It is among many of the books I can read over and over again. It was about this young couple and their son in a time of chaos. They suddenly have all this magnificant pearl of rich looking value. It cause so much trouble amon the villiage because everyone wanted it and couldnt have it. So, therefore they learned great lessons. I think it is a book that be read for a very long time.

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Summary: It shows how hard life can be.
Review: Life for them back then was very hard because of the difference of social classes until he finds his pearl which should make his life yet ironically messes up his whole life.He ends up being pushed out of his content life so he runs away form his life that he knew like his brother. Kino doesn't learn his lesson until after he loses more than he had to in the first place. He ends up with nothing and with out a son.

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Summary: The luck,The risk,The loss The Pearl
Review: This book is the prime example of how human greed can consume your life. John Steinbeck portrays this in The Pearl. Although Kino had good reason to keep the pearl, it still caused him heartache and pain. Steinbeck illustrates the characters in a form and in a situation that everyone can relate and identify with. I admire the way Kino was in the beginning; how content he was with just his wife, child, brushhouse, and not having much money.

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Summary: the love of money in it's truest form-The Pearl
Review: In this classic tale of greed, John Steinback illustrated to us what loving something to much, expecially money, can do to us. It will destroy us! There is NO exeption. In my opinion, our greatest weakness as human beings is the pursuite of personal pleasure at the expense of anyone and everyone that comes in our way.Mr. Steinbeck, gave us characters that we can relate to. We can imagine what we would do in we were put in a simular stuation. At the beginning of the story, Kino wanted nothing and was completly contempt with what he had. Then he found this great pearl and greed ingulfed him like a shark devours his prey. His whole life fell apart. He lost everything including his beloved son,for who he wanted to find the pearl for in the first place.

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Summary: The Pearl
Review: John Steinbeck wrote The Pearl based on a couple, and their recently born child,Coyotito, living in Mexico. Once I began reading the book, I had a hard time putting it down. The book was filled with many events that held my attention close.
This is a great message, and I encourage everyone to read this book and understand the message.

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Summary: Great book but doesn't capitalize on how unfair the world is
Review: The Pearl, a masterpice by John Steinbeck, is of course what many consider to be a timeless display of how the small minority can rule the vast majority. Kino, a poor Mexican peasant, is happy with his situation. A beautiful wife, a newborn child, and a simple living equate to what to him is a very succesful existence. That is when he discovers the pearl of the world and therefor is shown a doorway into many of the aspects of a "rich" life, a life that is forsaken to him by birth. Blinded by ambition and plans for his child, he becomes infuriated with who surround and only when many attempts to his life are made is when he truly discovers that he was happy all along...

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Summary: An interesting study of circumstances..
Review: The story of Kino and his wife, Juana, and their little baby son, Coyotito, and of what happens when Kino finds a pearl in an oyster bed. Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion, and they go to the doctor, but the doctor will not treat him. Then the family goes out to the oyster bed and Kino finds the biggest and most splendid pearl, the Pearl of the World. He goes later to the pearl handlers and they only offer him 1500 pesos when he thinks it should be worth 50,000 pesos. Someone or several someones attempt to rob him several times and at one time, Kino accidentally kills a man, so the family goes on the run to the big city. They hide in a cave in the mountains, and the trackers almost catch up to them. The story is complex, with a moral and fantastic descriptions of the surrounding countryside and the culture there. I would recommend reading.

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Summary: Good Steinbeck Novel
Review: This is a good fable. It is based on a folk story in Mexico that Steinbeck "borrowed" from some locals. This is not his best book, but it has a great message and plenty of Steinbeck's charm as a writer. It is a very good book with a very good message that anyone who can read should understand.

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Summary: The power of Evil
Review: This short story is nothing short of excellent. Kino a poor pearl diver has a change of luck when he finds a valuable pearl in the ocean. Soon his life is changed but with his increase in wealth and luck comes the Song of Evil, his family is [in danger] by his good fortune of finding this pearl. The story is well crafted and reads like a parable. Steinbeck is telling his audience something with this story, how do you interpret it. Check it out!