Comparing World's Wealthiest And The Pearl

The article, “World’s Wealthiest”, and the novel, The Pearl, are similar because both have examples of the rich taking advantage of the poor and causing the gap between the two to grow. In The Pearl, wealthier people have more of everything while the poorer people have hardly anything. For example, the Doctor has lots of money, food, and servants while people in Kino’s town barely have enough to provide for their families. The quote, “They could hear the splashing of water and the singing of caged birds and the sweep of long brooms on the flagstones. And they could smell the frying of good bacon from doctor’s house.” shows just how much the doctor has. In the novel the doctor has all kinds of treats while Kino and his family eat corn cakes

for breakfast everyday. An example of the gap between the rich and the poor growing is the clear difference in the rich and the poor people’s daily lives. Rich people live in stone and plaster houses while poor people live in brush houses that could fall apart during a small storm. The quote, “They came to the place where the brush houses stopped and the city of stone and plaster began.” explains how obvious it is to know whether a person is rich or poor. If the gap between the rich and the poor was small there wouldn’t be such a dramatic change in people’s homes.