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John Steinbeck: The Pearl Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl.' Write an essay to demonstrate how this becomes true, basing your answers on...

      

John Steinbeck: The Pearl

Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl.' Write an essay to demonstrate how this becomes true, basing your answers on Steinbeck's the Pearl

  

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Martin
Introduction

In life people like being associated with people who are making it or who have made it. Kino is no exception and when he wins the pearl, everyone wants to be associated with him; the beggars, priests, doctors and those who cannot reach him want to steal the pearl.

Illustrations

When Kino gets the greatest pearl in the world, everyone is suddenly related to him. Coyotito is bitten by a scorpion and the doctor cannot treat him because Kino has no money.

When Kino gets the pearl, the doctor tells one of his patients that he is the one treating Kino's baby. The priest hears about the pearl and immediately thinks of the necessary repairs needed in the church, He wonders if he has baptized the baby or married Kino and Juana.

The beggars in the front of the church giggle with pleasure when they hear of Kino's pearl as they know there is no alms-giver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky.

Every man was interested in Kino now that he had a great pearl. They had favors to ask or they had something to sell to him. The pearl went to people's dreams, plans, futures, needs, lusts and hungers. Only Kino stood in the way of this and so he also gained a lot of enemies. People would wake up in the night talk about the pearl, then go to sleep, wake up
again and then sleep. The brush house was crowded with neighbors. They listened and nodded at Kino's wild imaginings. They even followed him when he went to sell the pearl.

Conclusion

It is true that when Kino gets the greatest pearl in the world everyone suddenly wants to be associated with him yet he had lived a quiet life before then. People want to be associated with success not failure


marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 10:10


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