My Essay on "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
I finished my essay! It's my first one of American Literature and in English (so please,be nice!).I know that it's probably not the best essay on earth but I'm proud of my work :) A friend from Maine gave me some of his notes for this book,and I have to thank him because it was really helpful. (I made a mistake in the original essay : I wrote "captived" instead of "captivated" because of the French meaning :"Captiver")
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Essay - "The Pearl" by Caroline Bawedin (aka Cooper)
"The Pearl",which takes place in La Paz,Mexico,tells the story of the seemingly wonderful life of Kino,his wife Juana and their baby,Coyotito.How they found a pearl and how Kino,the fisherman,became a bad man captivated by evil.
The author of this book,John Steinbeck,was born in 1902 in California.He was about 32 when he started his career as writer.He received a Pulitzer Prize for his best selling book "The Grapes of Wrath".He wrote "The Pearl" in 1945 and died in 1968 because of arteriosclerosis.
"If this story is a parable,perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it". (page 1,chapter 1).In "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck,the author shows us that we can compare this story with our own life.I think that this book has different values for some people.Those who are church readers might hate this novel because it portrays priests in a negative way.Also,some people would probably find objective the parts about murder and pain.
I liked this book and I read it two times.The first reading was a discovery: I discovered Steinbeck and his painful stories,often about poor people in California.The second time I read this book,I understood the real meaning of the story.How you can get something and lose it. How good and beautiful things could be evil. Most of the time,books have a happy ending or a problem is resolved. But in "The Pearl",at the end of the story,Kino throws away the pearl but this one is still out there waiting for its next victim.This is not a happy book.
"... And he looked into the shinning surface for his rifle,but only saw a huddled dark body on the ground with shimmering blood dripping from its throat" (page 93). This quote shows the main subject of the story. Kino,the main character sees evil in the pearl and he's so captivated by it that he can't throw it away. Steinbeck's message is that evil is overpowering. He shows that greed and hate can destroy a nice person.
I think it's sad for a human to care enough about possession to kill. Kino is sort of "materialist". He prefers things to his family. I think that this is a very thought and provoking book with a heavy (weighty) message: evil is,and always will be,powerful.
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Essay - "The Pearl" by Caroline Bawedin (aka Cooper)
"The Pearl",which takes place in La Paz,Mexico,tells the story of the seemingly wonderful life of Kino,his wife Juana and their baby,Coyotito.How they found a pearl and how Kino,the fisherman,became a bad man captivated by evil.
The author of this book,John Steinbeck,was born in 1902 in California.He was about 32 when he started his career as writer.He received a Pulitzer Prize for his best selling book "The Grapes of Wrath".He wrote "The Pearl" in 1945 and died in 1968 because of arteriosclerosis.
"If this story is a parable,perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it". (page 1,chapter 1).In "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck,the author shows us that we can compare this story with our own life.I think that this book has different values for some people.Those who are church readers might hate this novel because it portrays priests in a negative way.Also,some people would probably find objective the parts about murder and pain.
I liked this book and I read it two times.The first reading was a discovery: I discovered Steinbeck and his painful stories,often about poor people in California.The second time I read this book,I understood the real meaning of the story.How you can get something and lose it. How good and beautiful things could be evil. Most of the time,books have a happy ending or a problem is resolved. But in "The Pearl",at the end of the story,Kino throws away the pearl but this one is still out there waiting for its next victim.This is not a happy book.
"... And he looked into the shinning surface for his rifle,but only saw a huddled dark body on the ground with shimmering blood dripping from its throat" (page 93). This quote shows the main subject of the story. Kino,the main character sees evil in the pearl and he's so captivated by it that he can't throw it away. Steinbeck's message is that evil is overpowering. He shows that greed and hate can destroy a nice person.
I think it's sad for a human to care enough about possession to kill. Kino is sort of "materialist". He prefers things to his family. I think that this is a very thought and provoking book with a heavy (weighty) message: evil is,and always will be,powerful.
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