Addiction And Greed In John Steinbeck's The Pearl

Have you ever experienced true luck, like winning the lottery? How did you feel? Studies show that most people who win the lottery go into a depression because of attention and greed. This is what The Pearl is solely based on. The Pearl is a novel by John Steinbeck, which tells the story of Kino, a pearl diver, and his adventure through acquiring the “Pearl of the World” and the struggles that fortune comes with. His wife Juana helps guide him through this great feat. Together they have a son named Coyotito, whom gets stung by a scorpion, in the early chapters of the novel. After Kino finds the pearl he become more and more avaricious. This leads him down a dark path that includes murder, violence, and greed. In the end, Coyotito died and he

For instance, “Then without warning, he struck the gate a crushing blow with his fist. He looked down in wonder at his split knuckles and at the blood that flowed down between his fingers” (Steinbeck 12). This reminds me of the tank-like health a machine has. Machines in the army are designed to be durable. Kino, showing no emotion after this injury, is very dangerous person as shown by the quote. However, when Kino was pearl diving this event occurred, “He took his rock in one hand and his basket in the other, and he slipped feet first over the side and the rock carried him to the bottom” (Steinbeck 16). This tells me Kino has intelligence like an AI, which is a machine. To add, Kino showed no emotion because his bloody knuckles, which occurred before, would be burning at the immediate touch of salt water. This quote tells me Kino is very intelligent and has a low pain tolerance. On the other hand machines, are very intelligent, and have no pain tolerance. A prime examples of this is a computer. A computer is very intelligent and has no pain

Through his fear of dark and the devils that haunt the night, there came a rush of exhilaration; some animal thing was moving in him so that he was cautious and wary and dangerous; some ancient thing out of the past of his people was alive in him. The wind was at his back and the stars guided him” (Steinbeck 69). This occurs after Kino’s kills all the men, during the death of Coyotito. This is when realizes what he has done. Kino now a savage, which has caused him to do things that can never be taken lightly. As you can see, when the passage tells us about the animal thing being dangerous, you now know that Kino felt as an animal until he has come to the conclusion of his