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Colonialism is dehumanizing. Drawing illustrations from John Steinbeck’s, 'The Pearl,' write an essay in support of this statement

      

Colonialism is dehumanizing. Drawing illustrations from John Steinbeck’s, 'The Pearl,' write an essay in support of this statement

  

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Martin
- Racial discrimination
- The colonialists are: The doctor, the priest, pearl buyers
Those dehumanized
- The title Indians - Kino, the residents LA Paz brush houses, the beggars, fisher man

(i) Racial Discrimination
-The doctor, rear buyers and the priest belong to the same are
-He cannot go to the bush houses to treat Coyotito
-The doctor lives in luxury. Surrounded by high perimeter wall, yellow plastered building hugging the beach. He eats well, chocolates and sweet cake Pg 54

-The little Indians line in bush houses
-The doctor calls the Indians animals by saying that he is not a veterinary to treat them Pg 23
-The priest - did not bother baptizing Coyotito
-He had not married Kino an Juana before they had the Pearl - Pg 51
-The pearl buyers - Pg 42. They reached the lowest price the fisherman could not stand. They extorted them and made them perennially poor.
-For all the doctor’s race spoke to all Kino’s race as though they were simple animals. Pg 26
-Kino’s race felt weak, angry and afraid all at the same time.

-Pg 26. The doctor did not belong to the people. He was of a different race , that for nearly 400 years had beaten starved, robbed and despised Kino’s race that they came humbling to the doctor.
-Exploitation of the fishermen
-The pearl buyer’s pg 64. The happiest pearl buyer was the one who bought at the lowest price

(ii) Poverty

-There is a sharp contrast/difference between the dwellings of the little Indians and the Europeans
-They live in bush houses (in abject poverty), have little to eat, no lightning .This sharply contrasts to the doctor who lives in the plastered houses, in a gated area eats lavishly. Kino and family eat corn cake and pulque for breakfast
-The doctor lived in stone houses with inner cool gardens. There were caged birds and water fountains. He had good bacon for breakfast, lived in opulence, imported furniture, he also ate sweet biscuits and more chocolate for breakfast. He could afford a mistress
-Kino’s people made a little living from pearl harvesting with no proper diving equipments. He uses a stone and ropes and an inherited canoe Pg 35. When they sold the pearls , they earned too little to support themselves Kino couldn’t afford Coyotito’s treatment. He offered ugly misshapen seed pearls flattened and almost valueless. Pg 28
-Pg 776. They were cheated from birth to the overcharge of their coffins
-Pg 44. In the pearl, Kino saw himself and Juana kneeling at the high alter and they could pay.
-They were dressed well – we will have new clothes

(iii) Exploitation

-The pearl buyers wish to buy at the lowest price. The pearl buyer offered 1000 pesos but he knew the value of Kino’s pearl. He offered 1500 pesos when he realized Kino would not sell it

-There was only one pearl buyer who keep agents in separate offices to give a semblance of completion Pg 42
-They waited in their chairs until the pearls came in, and cackled, fought, shouted and threatened until they reached the lowest price a fishermen could stand Pg 42
-A fisherman had given his pearls to the Church in despair Pg 42
-Pg 34 the king of spin had helped to pat for the war and has decorated the churches for his soul sake. By the use of money from the sale of the pearls, this king had risen o be a great power in Europe. This happened at the expense of the poor fishermen.
- Pg 68. The priest brainwashed the poor by telling them to remain in the poor town not to go to get better prices for their pearls. He wanted them to remain ignorant and not to change their status
It was against religion ... the loss of a pearl was a punishment to those who left their stations. Each man and woman is like a soldier send by God to guard some part of the castle of the universe. Pg 68

(iv) Lack of Education

-The colonizes have education , have an upper hand, the doctor makes use of the Kino’s ignorance, lack of knowledge to poison Coyotito.
-Pg 45-46
-Kino says, My son will go to school
-My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing. And my son will make numbers, and those things will make us free because he will know - he will know and through him we will know.'
-Their ignorance was exploited by the pearl buyers, the doctor and the priest. Through education, however the little Indians, will be free.




marto answered the question on April 15, 2019 at 12:06


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