The_Pearl

The Pearl I. Type of Story In my opinion The Pearl is a very interesting novel in the way that the book is written and the problems that are so realistically portrayed. The author chooses a poor Indian Village as the setting for his story, probably to show that it really doesn’t matter where one lives, since greed exists all over the world. Kino, the main character, finds a huge pearl that is supposedly worth a lot of money. His attitude toward his friends and family doesn’t change but the attitude of everyone else does in that they suddenly becomes his friend and wants something from him. Their feeling is that they deserve their share, and they will play every trick in the book to get what they want. The sad thing is that even the doctor, who is supposed to be a caregiver, first rejects Kino but agrees to see him once he hears of the pearl. I feel that the story is well written in that if the reader looks over the fact that the story takes place in a distant land, we can find many similarities between the theme in the story and our everyday kino, pearl, doctor, coyotito, juana, one, money, family, story, out, day, village, thought, started, morning, came, something, night, next, hut, home, first, back, trackers, took, through, sun, set, scorpion, quote, point, oyster, over, off, lives