Archetypes In John Steinbeck's The Pearl

Many stories in the world have a lot of the same characters. Carl Jung believed that universal, mythic characters called archetypes reside within the collective unconscious of people in the world. Archetypes are important because basically any story you will read will have archetypes in it. The archetypes in The Pearl are important because without the Hero, Ally, or Loyal Retainer archetypes in the book, The Pearl would have no story. This is why John Steinbeck uses many different archetypes in The Pearl such as the Hero, Ally, and Loyal Retainer.
One example of an archetype in The Pearl is the Hero, who is played by Kino, the main character. On page 5 of The Pearl John Steinbeck the author writes, “It sensed danger when Kino was almost in reach of it.. It stopped and it tail rose up over its back in little jerks and the curved thorn on the tails end glistened… Kino's hand leaped hand reached out to catch it, but it fell past his fingers and onto the baby's shoulder.” In this quote Kino is about to try and stop his baby from getting stung by a scorpion by trying to catch it so it doesn't sting and hurt his

On page 45 the author says, “Kino stepped with dignity out of the house, and Juana followed behind, carrying Coyotito.” In this quote Juana is following Kino of ouf their house. This shows that Juana is the Ally of the book because she is following Kino and taking care of the baby so he doesn't have to because that what the Ally does, helps the Main Character or Hero, Kino. Also in the book it says, “And when Juana had seated herself and had settled to nurse the baby, Kino went back to the road.” Again in this part of the book Juana is Nursing the baby so Kino can go do what he needs to do. That shows that Juana is the Ally because the Ally is always trying to help the Hero. That is why Juana is the Ally, because she is always following and help Kino, the