Essay Archive - The Pearl: A Review
The Pearl: A Review
The Pearl is a story about an Mexican Indian man and woman, set in the early to
mid-1900's, in Bolivia. It was written by John Steinbeck as a short fiction
book that tells of the family's life just before, during, and just after find a
great pearl. The book was an amazing and discussed many different ideas. The
main idea discussed is whether or not being rich is a good thing. The story
explained how everyone would like to be rich yet being rich has a lot of
unnecessary baggage that goes with it.
There are two major characters in this book. The first is a man named Kino. He
is a Mexi....
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