The Pearl:.by John Steinbeck

The pearl starts out in the small village of La Paz where the family of, Kino, his wife Juana, and there son Coyotito.this family was a family of poor natives who's only way of raising money was for Kino to dive for pearls. In the beginning of the book kino and his family were content although they didnt always have enought money this made Kino sad. He only wanted the best for his family.But that made it hard at times.
The story began with coyotito getting bit by a scorpion this usualy kills babies this age but juana did all she could to help save him but in the meantime Kino tryed to get the doctor, but the neighbors said "he would not come, the doctor would never come out to this town"(pg. 7) the doctor was a racist that obbsesed with money. When Kino heared this he decided that they would go and see the doctor. When they got to the him he wouldn’t see at the baby because they had no way to pay him. This is when it all began, this is when he got the one-in-a-million pearl the pearl of the world.

Kino was amazed by this pearl he had found his familys happiness but,he already had all the happieness he would ever need (isnt that touching).when word got out that kino had found the pearl he was being taken advatange of and more. When the pearl started to bring him havoc kino wanted to sell it. Kino got an idea of what the pearl would be worth but when the buyers of the pearl decided to see if they could get it for a low price kino became greedy and decided to take it to the capital.
When he was planning to go to the capital it became very hard to fight off people. evil was all around him, but one night when juana was sick and tired of the pearls trouble she tried to get rid of the pearl by throwing back into the ocean but kino found her just in time to stop her he was pissed off when he found he. he hit her in the face and ithe hit threw Juana onto the ground, while Kino took off with the pearl. but after that somebody tried to steal the pearl from Kino when he was walking home but he fought back and killed him. This made him decided to run and leave town immediately with Juan making up an excuses for where they went. People still followed them so one night Kino went off to try to kill the trackers. while killing them coyotito was shot in the head and killed. While he came back home kino and his brother were miserable so they decided to throw the devil pearl back where it came from.


REFLECTION
I thought that this book was good and quite action packed i enjoyed it very much. one triumph of evil over good was when kino hit juanna in the face over the pearl when all she was trying to do was to help her family and rid it of evil that the giant pearl was bringing them. another was when kino shot and killed coyotito when he thought he was another one of his trackers and this brought utter missery to kino his family and his brother juan thomas. another was when the doctor wouldnt see the baby because he had to much work to do and because of this coyotito almost died of the scorpion sting, although he eventualy died of being shot in the head by his father beacause he thought he was a tracker. but at n overall stand point i liked this book and i personaly think it would make a great movie.