“The Pearl,” which was written by John Steinbeck, is about life's ups and downs with a pearl and the circumstances that revolved around it. This pearl changed Kino, Juana, and Coyotito’s lives drastically. Even the pearl changed throughout the story. The pearl may have started out as a blessing to their lives, but it most definitely ended up a curse. This story reminds us of how we can be so consumed with something so great that we turn away from God and turn the blessing God gives us into sin. Kino and Juana were a married couple on an island with their first born baby boy, Coyotito. While Kino enjoyed nature and being outdoors, Juana was respectful, obedient, and had the patience of iron. Kino and Juana were amazing parents to …show more content…
Terrified, Juana recited a prayer to protect Coyotito, while Kino moved forward to capture the scorpion. Coyotito spotted the scorpion on the rope, laughed, and reached up to grab it. Just then, positioned in front of the hanging box, Kino froze, slowly stretching out his hand toward the scorpion. When Coyotito shook the rope of the hanging box, the scorpion fell, landed on his shoulder, and stung him. Kino immediately captured the creature and crushed it in his grasp, beating it to death on the floor for good measure. Coyotito screamed with pain. These actions remind us how we can so easily be distracted by sin. Sin might look good but when we get too close to it, it entangles us and turns us away from our Mighty Creator. The scorpion stung Coyotito. This shows us that when we get entangled by sin, it leaves a mark on us that can hurt us greatly. Kino tried to capture the scorpion to save his baby's life. Kino could have just let his baby be taken by the scorpion just as God could let us be taken over by sin. This shows us that our God fights for us even when we don't deserve it. But God with his great mercy …show more content…
Kino and Juana got into their canoe to search for food and began to paddle. Kino started diving for oysters and when he found them they placed them in a woven basket. Kino and Juana tried to find pearls inside of the oysters. They would be lucky to find a pearl but they believed in luck so they searched each and every oyster. Finally, they found a great pearl. They thought it was the most beautiful thing ever. The perfect pearl came from the dying flesh of the oyster. All of a sudden Coyotito's swelling subsided. His wound even began to heal. The pearl they had just found was already a
As Kino and Juana are eating, a scorpion descends on the little Coyotito threatening to sting him. Coyotito sees the scorpion on his cradle, and reaches out to grab it. Coyotito shakes the cradle, which makes the scorpion fall and land on his shoulder and sting him. Kino sees what the scorpion has done and grabs it and crushes it in his hand. Juana grabs Coyotito and begins sucking the venom out of the wound. The child continues to moan and their neighbors begin to gather outside of their hut. Juana tells Kino to summon the doctor, but Kino does not have much hope that he will come. Juana grabs Coyotito and runs out of their hut towards the doctor’s house. Kino and the rest of the neighbors follow. Once they have reached the doctor, a servant is waiting outside his house. They tell him that their baby child needs to see the doctor immediately. The servant tells them to wait, while he calls the doctor. The servant comes back and tells Kino that he doctor is very busy today and won’t be able to help them...
lives, he very rarely finds any valuable pearls. In the very beginning of the book, Coyotito
Kino, the main character in “The Pearl”, starts off by being a loving, helpful companion to his lover Juana. The two are so connected they barely feel the need to talk to each other. Their life is almost perfect, until a scorpion stings their baby, Coyotito. Because the couple has very little money, the doctor will not cure Coyotito and says, “have I nothing
Kino found one of the most valuable and precious pearls in the world and being convinced of its worth was not going to be cheated by only minimally upgrading his condition of life. Instead he wanted to break the fixed life and role that he and his family had and always would live. Kino refuses the maximum offer of fifteen hundred pesos that would easily ease his and his family’s pain and suffering for the coming months. Kino is then determined to trek to the capital to find a fair and just offer. Kino continues determined through the mountains after an attempt at the pearl, his canoe destroyed and his hut set a blaze. Continuing to put his family’s life on the line. It eventually takes the death of his beloved son Coyotito to make him realize he needs to stop being so greedy, no matter how hard he tries and to shut his mouth and know his role.
Readers can tell from the statement that many of the people Kino encounters after finding the pearl become bitter “friends”. At this point, Kino and Juana begin to realize that the pearl is bringing bad luck upon them. They are taken advantage of by the doctor and he decides to visit them after knowing they have the pearl. “This pearl is like a sin”(56). Juana begins to realize the pearl is bringing them bad luck, but Kino still trusts that it’s a gift. Readers can also assume that people are trying to take the pearl when Kino is suddenly attacked during the night. “Blood oozed down from his scalp and there was a long…”(56). Readers can now confirm that the pearl has changed and now represents evil. The pearl also begins to destroy Kino and Juana’s relationship as they have different opinions on what to do with the pearl. After Kino wakes up and follows Juana when she wakes up and walks out, readers know he has started to lose full trust in her. “He rolled up to his feet and followed her silently as she had gone” (58). Through the symbolism of the pearl and what it brings upon Kino and Juana, the author emphasizes how the pearl is not what it first appears to be, which was
Kino, Juana, and Coyotito go back to the beach and row out to an oyster bed, where he begins to search for the pearl. As Kino continues to search, Juana takes things into her own hands after being refused by the doctor and sucks the poison out of Coyotito and then puts seaweed on the wound, unknowingly healing him. Meanwhile Kino gathers several small oysters but suddenly comes across a particularly large oyster. He picks the oyster up and returns to the surface. When Kino opens the oyster he discovers the pearl. Word that the pearl has been discovered travel through the town quickly. People in the town became jealous of Kino and his family which eventually leads to a great deal of harm.
After Kino found his great pearl bad things started happening, Kino and Juana's lives were in trouble. Two men notified in the book as the "dark ones" tried to steal the pearl, luckily Kino had been prepared and got rid of the enemies but that was not the end of the misery. Coyotito got very sick and the Doctor had deliberately made things worse. When it was time to sell the pearl, the buyers offered prices that Kino thought were too low. Kino was angry with the pearl buyers for what they had said. "I will not make an offer at all. I do not want it. This is not a pearl - it is a monstrosity." Kino got angry and decided he wanted to go elsewhere and find a buyer for the pe...
As the story unfolds, evil enters into the lives of Kino, his wife, and his son. In chapter one, the evil that enters the family first is the scorpion. The scorpion enters the home of Kino and stings Kino’s baby, Coyotito. After Coyotito was stung, another evil soon came along. This evil was the doctor. When Kino and his wife, Juana, bring Coyotito to the doctor, the doctor refuses to help because they had little to no money.
The main characters are Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. The first character, Kino, is an adventurous and risky man. He is the father of Coyotito and is the husband of Juana. He is a very risky man because on pages 86-87, it shows Kino taking risks by grasping the rifle even as he wrenched free his knife (86-87) and on page 87 it also shows Kino taking risks by he whirled and struck the head of the seated man who was the person following him like a melon. The Pearl shows Kino is adventurous on many pages, but there is one page in particular and that is page 81.
The doctor showed up one hour later and saved Coyotito making him look like the hero of the day. He then asked how they were going to pay for his treatment causing Juana to state that Kino had found a pearl and would pay the doctor as soon as they had sold the pearl. The doctor had saw Kino’s eye flash to the exact spot where the pearl was hidden as Juana said the word pearl.
At first, the unusual pearl was a sign of hope and great wealth for the people. It could free them from all their debts. “Kino had found the Pearl of the World” (21). The pearl will let Coyotito go to school.
Juana prays to find a pearl to pay the doctor so they can treat Coyotito’s sickness. When Kino finds the pearl, he feels immensely blessed and happy, for now he has thought to have the money he needs. He starts saying things like Coyotito will go to school, and Kino and his family will be rich and him and Juana will be married. He is very grateful and astonished by this. In addition, soon after the news goes around of him finding this valuable pearl, the doctor who had refused him before suddenly speaks highly of him and offers to heal the baby.
One of the main characters in the novel “The Pearl,” written by John Steinbeck, is a caring, strong willed and loyal woman called Juana. This character is the wife of Kino and mother of Coyotito. Juana is the type of person who thinks first before they act. The problem includes Coyotito getting stung by a scorpion. Even though Juana knows that the doctor would most likely not come to their aid, she still requested for his help.
pearl is so big that it has no value. Kino has to hide the pearl, but while he sleeps a thief tries to steal it. The doctor who would not treat Coyotito's scorpion bite when they had no money now comes to them offering the best medical care he can provide.As the story of Kino's situation unfolds, Kino is forced to kill three men, and worst of all, Kino accidentally shoots Coyotito in the head while he is trying to shoot his pursuers. Finally, at Juana's urging, Kino throws the pearl back into the sea. He has made nothing from his fin...