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.            

Final Reflection for The Pearl

         After finishing the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck I found a life lesson in the book for me and the way the book was written.  The lesson was you can't turn your back on anyone because at the time no matter how mad you are you never know when they're going to be there for you. At the end when Coyote dies Juana and Kino are there, when Kino throws the Pearl in the Gulf Juana is there. Then to get through the long journey climbing through mountains going through long paths struggling to find water Juana and Kino fight through the whole thing together. Then when I was reading for clues I noticed that John Steinbeck knows how to make things realistic but he has his moments where there are dry spots in the book and also very exciting parts.

           John Steinbeck has a way of writing that can be boring when you are reading some parts that could be really exciting he kind of kills his ideas. In chapter four how they bring the baby to the doctor because they think something is wrong, the doctor had no interest until he found out that Kino had the Pearl. When John Steinbeck wrote that he didn’t put that jumpy word or act into it. But then again it makes his exciting parts double the excitement and you want to keep reading. As in the last chapter they are going across a plain dry land Juana, Kino, and Coyote are traveling and they reach a mountain, when they go to climb the mountain they have no energy. When they finally get to the top they're all dying for water. When Kino keeps walking he finds a pool of water to stop their thirst. In that point of the book John Steinbeck was a very good writer because they couldn't afford to be thirsty nor did they have time to stop moving. John Steinbeck also has a way with words that show the book out, as in bad usage of words, but overall I did like the book and I would recommend it to a friend.   

Will the Pearl destroy them

While I'm reading the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck I have came to a chapter in the book that has sort of brought out the book's real purpose. When Kino got the Pearl their whole life has changed. Most of the people they meet now they can't even trust, every single person is trying to get the Pearl from Kino. When they brought the baby to the doctor the doctor had a plan to steal the Pearl along with the rest of the people. So the question is, is this pearl putting them in great risk?

Reflection for The Pearl

        So far while I am reading the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck I have become to observe his style of writing and I have started to like it. One reason the vocabulary in the book isn't an elementary book level even though the book is under a hundred pages. Although I started to like his style of writing it also has bored me, he has a lot of dead parts in the book that bring up the exciting parts but brings down the book overall. There was many exciting parts like when the baby needed the doctor to help him but the doctor was all for himself. He wanted to steal the pearl and become rich and have it all. Then the baby suddenly became sick when they went to him, so then the doctor fixed the baby to try to somehow become almost friends. 

Pewaukee varsity basketball

My older brother Nick plays basketball, he practices with the varsity but usually plays on JV. A lot of Nick's friends talk to me a lot like David Girmschied, Jordy, and so on. Some of my dreams is to play on Firday's on the varsity team because of the game of basketball and the pleasure of making varsity. I know a lot of them as they know me and it would be really fun to do the same being a varsity player then talking to the younger kids.

Response to "The Circuit"

Alex Clement

Language Arts

5A    12/02/10

                                                                Response to “The Circuit”

            What is it like to have nobody listen to you and move all the time? In the story “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez, there’s a character Panchito who is a kid that helps his dad that is a migrant farmer. A migrant farmer is a farmer who moves when the crops are bad or when they aren’t in season. They work as a migrant farmer because of the families need for money and the mother doesn’t work in the short story “The Circuit”. They don’t seem like the happiest family that’s why the story is a tragedy.

             The short story “The Circuit” is a tragedy for several reasons. The little boy Panchito is just a kid that tries to go to school but he can’t because his father is a migrant farmer, they never stay in one spot. While they move to a very amusing and very affordable spot Panchito gets into school, it was the most blissful time of his life his teacher liked him he loved to read, everything was going great, but then horrifying things happened. Panchito walked into his house one day with everything packed up and was forced to move as he approached his dad to question him why they are moving he had no excuse he felt it was too wrong not to be moving.

            Although they moved again after that, Panchito didn’t get over it his life wasn’t the same. He worked as hard as he could to keep the family alive giving up education to support the family. His father knew that was wrong as he was living in guilt.  He would never be able to take that back, so they moved on to being there usually migrant farmer family.

            Than finally it became clear that it was a tragedy when Panchito couldn’t go to school and had to go back to his migrant farmer life. When he also found out that the one screaming guy that he looked forward to all day left he had no business wanting to work or be happy.   Panchito would work day to day week to week year to year and he never got a break, he always would look forward to the screaming guy that would yell out “ Ya esora” in his broken Spanish voice.

            This basically sums up why the story is a tragedy. The story is very realistic and if you have ever had a dream about the old west or being a farmer you would understand the story. The story also is based in the mid day through the whole day which follows the symbolism chart for comedy and tragedy.

Carrol College experience

When my friend and I went to the Carrol College basketball camp we meet a kid named Bogey. Bogey had to be the funniest kid I know. He was good at basketball so Drew and I always picked him. I remember his favorite line was (He's stoking it baby with a capitol B). That was one of the funniest things ever because he said everytime he made a shot or just wanted to say something. He once had 4 gatorades in about 1 minuet, I have never seen anybody do that. It was one of my favorite camps and I am for sure going there again. 1 because it was fun to play basketball. 2 because Bogey was so so funny. 3 The Toppers pizza was delicious.