essay response to The Pearl

The Pearl
In the book the Pearl written by John Steinbeck there is a lot of changing keno’s and Juana lives throughout the book. The main character is keno; Keno is an upbeat man that has a family. Keno wife is Juana. Juana has a baby named Coyotito. Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion and almost dies. They all hope they could find the perfect pearl to save Coyotito and they did but, were the pearl really perfect.

The main characters change a lot during the story. Keno started out as a nice peaceful calm person he was wearing a straw hat and had a mustache. In the middle of the book keno was ruthless and thoughtless Keno stabbed body and killed him and then went into hiding he also feels cheated because he didn’t get what he wanted. Keno also killed somebody. At the end of the book keno was a ruthless killer and has venerable for a short time with a knife around his neck he killed 1 of some the hunters for his rifle. Juana started out wearing a blue shall and was a scared woman. In the middle of the book she tried to get rid of their pearl by attempting to throw the pearl in the water. At the end of the book Juana was wearing a vial holding their baby’s body the baby got shot in the head by the trackers. The pearl has changed their lives.

There was lots of symbolism in the Pearl. The book was clearly a tragedy. Steinbeck was using words like creeping of the wave, dark colors and gashed hole in his victim’s chest. Words like that. They words they used where very descriptive. This book started with a tropical backdrop. The canoe has a gashing hole in it. There was rushing water coming down from a mountain. There was lots of death and sadness people where calling them animals. The pearl was affecting their lives and changing them in a bad way. Symbolism changes the story to a tropical story to a tragedy.
The book wasn’t really that bad.

I didn’t like it the book was too short. I would only recommend the book to somebody that likes short adventure books. If you like reading a book that is depressing this book is depressing. At the end its fast pace and depressing. The pearl wasn’t a bad thing at all it destroyed their lives. The pearl was not perfect in any way.
By: Mitchell brown.