The Pearl

Life is a roller coaster. Or so Ive heard, hardly isnt it? Life has its up and downs, its backwards and forwards, up aspect downs and right side ups, loops and twirls, screams of fun and annoyingly pounding headaches. But whenever life brings aroundthing, replete(p) or blighted, people give birth no choice just to live d nonpareil it, right? Right. Such an example ar the characters kino, and Juana in the book, The Pearl by John Steinbeck. gum kino and Juana ar actually different people, scarcely because they ar different, they ar adequate to respect each other(a) greatly. Throughout the novel it is shown that Juana was little developed as a person than kino earlier the collect; both grew greatly after the drop exactly Kino more so than Juana; after all the trials and tribulations Juana is the roughly admir qualified, because she was able to predict the outcome the drop curtain would bring from the bad omens the pearl brought when it was first found.

                 Before the need of the pearl took manoeuver due to Coyotitos scorpion bite, Kinos family basically lived a happy, go lucky life. This is safety, this is warmth, this is the W mass. [p.3] They werent rich, just now they had a home, food, and the necessities to provide for a child. They could go with the daylight with little talk, basically they k untested how to work with each other, they knew when mavin was hurt, in deep thought, ect. Then the baby was bitten and Kinos and Juanas individual true fears and longings came forth. To the both, family was very important, they both did there best to save Coyotito from being bitten. Kino tried to scratch off the scorpion before it bit his son and Juana sucked some of the poison out after it was bitten, scarce as suck upn from posterior events like when she tried to persuade Kino to get absolve of the pearl by saying, Kino the pearl is evil. Let us destroy it before it destroys us, [p.56] and then receiving a beating, then refusing to bring out Kinos side on the visions after hearing his come ins, from all this it lowlife be give tongue to that the barely aspect to Juanas personality are her loyalties and devotion to her family, nothing else. Kino on the other egest cares for his family but has his own personal dreams as well, such as a new boat after a hole was made in it because, The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat, [p.62] and it is the gram molecule against starvation. [p.14] Kino also dreamed of a rifle. Kinos character was able to form his own opinions about subjects other than family, while Juana was as submissive and servile as one could be, living only to please others, making Juana the lesser developed of the two because she didnt occupy as many aspects to her personality as compared to Kino.

                 This pearl has bugger off my soul, if I give it up I shall lose my soul, [p.67] said Kino, never did he know that by keeping the pearl his soul would not be the only thing that was lost. By keeping the pearl Kino killed men in order to keep it, lost his home, lost his boat, and lost his child. Going through all these tragedies he realized his mistakes, and then he was able to let go of the pearl. He grew more as a character because in the beginning the pearl meant everything to him, a new boat, a rifle, a marriage, and an education for his son, he was so knotted in the newly shined on hope that he didnt see how to obtain his dreams in the right way. From making his mistake and having to go through all the consequences that came along with it, he was able to realize what he did wrong, and try to make amends with himself by throwing the pearl in the sea. And the pearl was ugly; it was gray, like a malignant growth. And Kino heard the music of the pearl, distorted and certifiable. [p.89]..... Kino move back his arm and flung the pearl with all his might [p.90] He became a new man, a sensible one because he indirect requested nothing to do with the pearl, the ?evil that caused him so a lot. Juana on the other hand grew due to the lost of her son and the pain she went through as well, but not nearly as much growth as Kino, because she didnt seem to change much at all throughout the story. She stayed loyal.

                 Kino and Juana both have their strengths and weaknesses that are both admired and disliked.



Kino was at first a very admirable man that took care of his family, and did anything to provide for them, but then he clumsily fell into the greediness the pearl overwhelmed him with. He wanted too many things that were not necessary, and reached for it in the wrong way. Of course the good thing is he tried, but to kill people- to ruin someone elses family to help his move one step ahead is wrong. He tried, made a mistake, and well-educated from it, but it wouldve been better to take on the advice Juana gave him, Let us- let us throw it back in the sea where it belongs. Kino, it is evil, it is evil! [p.57] He shouldve also thought realistically, how many more people wanted to be rich, how many more wanted the pearl, and how many would kill to have it. Because Juana saw this beforehand, she is the most admirable.

                 Kino and Juana both have qualities that helped them be the happy family they once were, before the pearl. Once impinge had entered their midst they both projected their individual thoughts and feelings. Kino acted brave, highly persistent, and protective, while Juana acted smart, helpful, servile, and loyal. They acted the way they did because Kino being a man was brought up to be strong, the provider, to provide the food, shelter, and have little boys to follow in their footsteps. Men were also ignorant as well. The mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would zoom along while the man drowned, [p.59-60] because of this Juana had no chance in persuading Kino not to keep the pearl and stay in the village, Kino could not see her over his dream of having Coyotito educated. Juana being a women was brought up to serve a man half insane and half god, [p.59] as they are, a women could not live without one to provide for her and give her children. The quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could not debase through Kinos manness and save them all, [p.60] and because of all this tradition, all these qualities that seeped through their kind, in their time, from father to son, and mother to daughter, Kino and Juana have the difference the have.

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