“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...
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.
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
A poisonous scorpion is near Coyotito. Kino tries to stop it, but is too late. The scorpion bites the baby on his shoulder and redness forms immediately. Juana suggests to go to the doctor even though they could not afford it. They leave with Kino’s brother, Juan Tomas and his wife, Apolonia and four children.
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.
So the Doctor went down to the brush hut community to “check” on Coyotito and see if he needed medical assistance. He there tricked Kino and Juana into believing that the poison from the scorpion sting will attack inward. His evidence was that the Coyotito’s eye had a blue spot on it. The doctor put some white powder in Coyotito’s mouth and said he would be back in an hour. Well what the doctor put in Coyotito was some medicine that would make his stomach really hurt in exactly one hour.
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.
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.
She felt that this pearl was evil and no good and it was going to bring them no good she went to throw the pearl back and Kino got up and chased her to the water threw her to the ground kicking and punching her then he went back to his house and found more intruders. He fought the intruder and killed him, but then his brush house catches on fire and he realizes he needs to leave town. This illustrates how greed can lead to very unexpected
Kino becomes a human with evil animal-like features, “Kino looked down at her and his teeth were bared. He hissed at her like a snake,” (59). Steinbeck also illustrates Kino as an animal, “He was an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he lived only to preserve himself,” (62). One of the worst things that Kino had done whilst the Pearl was in his possession was beat his wife, Juana, “He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side,” (59). Kino transforms into a cruel man with twisted intentions from this point until the end of the
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.
Since she and Kino do not have a lot of money, she works hard to feed her family by preparing them food for every meal. She also takes care of Coyotito by cleaning him, feeding him, and making sure he is safe. When Coyotito got stung by the scorpion, she immediately started to take out the poison so that it would not spread. Coyotito was Juana’s first baby, he meant everything in the world to her, and so she would go to great lengths in order for her child to be healthy again. When she and Kino were trying not to get caught by the trackers, she made sure Coyotito was quiet so that their position would not have been given away.
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.
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...