The Pearl

                                                                The Pearl                                     by    Alex Clement

After finishing the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck most people would have found the life lesson to the book. So far with all the symbolism and the chart fitting the tragedy plotline, you would come to see what the book is trying to tell you, and now with the whole point of the book Kino finding the Pearl. Was it worth all the madness, but while this Pearl is causing chaos people looking for jobs, other people are dying you might think what was John Steinbeck's purpose to the book?

            John Steinbeck rights with such enthusiasm, when you read the book you notice to things he does. When the book starts off kind of slow he progresses into a faster tempo, as an example he starts off the book with Kino as a brave man fearless, but later on Kino wises up he takes things slower gets rid of the aggressive attitude. Then John Steinbeck has another twist to this book right away when he has Kino all aggressive he has another character that his more passive and wise Juana. Juana was the smart one of their two team group at the beginning, but that's when he makes his turning point when Kino starts to become wiser and more passive Juana becomes kind of more active and less caring at the end than Kino. The next character was the baby Coyotito, now the baby plays a big role with the Pearl even though it doesn't seem like it in the book. How Kino and Juana are changing in the book the baby has the same attitude the same looks doesn’t really change. The Pearl was causing Kino stress as the baby was causing Juana stress, but when Juana changed in the book the baby played a different role it was almost like the baby was its own independent parent, which caused them later on in the book to then grow apart.

            There were some miner errors in the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck his usage of boring and very confusing words was very challenging to overcome. Multiple times in the book there was a typo error or there was even a grammar error on words. Many times he would forget to add an S, or ES. Most people would have noticed, but overall the book was outstanding when you overcome the errors I would recommend this book to anybody. 

            In the book there were many ups and downs, from the beginning to the end. The book fits the tragedy plotline, the world started in chaos then they had a rise to power. When Kino found the Pearl he assumed he was going to be rich and have all the money and power or his family, but there was some errors to his plan which lead to a tragic flaw. Kino had the pearl and was assuming that he would be rich and would be able to support his family; until he didn’t realize that with his control of the Pearl and that he found the Pearl he was putting his family in great risk. Which ended up leading to the tragic fall, when the buyers of the Pearl couldn’t take that Kino wasn’t selling the Pearl yet they had become inpatient as in their ways of either stealing the Pearl or killing Kino to get the Pearl. In the book also there is a doctor this doctor is out for the Pearl he fails on purpose healing the baby and then he finally heals the baby so it could seem like they were close.

Overall the book by John Steinbeck was phenomenal, and I really enjoyed reading it as I hope our next class novel would be like the book The Pearl, as I also hope that more people would like to read the book as well.