The Pearl

Dripping with sea water, sore and tired, you walk down a dirt road to go home to your tiny grass hut to rest and then get up at the crack of dawn to work. Thinking of riches and all the good things you could have like flag stone roads and sweets to your content. Though wealth may be nice, your greed can ruin you and your life with treasure. “The Pearl” tells how a miracle that seems harmless can start a fire of terrors turning into a horrible nightmare all because of one person’s greed.

This story begins with Kino, a poor pearl diver, who finds the wicked pearl.
He wants the best for his family and tries to keep the pearl so he can bring riches to them by selling it for a good price, but its power reversed, and so his entire family is in danger. Then there’s Juana, Kino’s wife who is smart, strong, and a mother. She cares for her family, home, and makes the best of what she has. If I could be a character in this book it would Juana, she is one of the smarter characters who is mentally strong. Because wasn’t depressed or hurt by words that people through at her.

In this story there many more evil people than good, well that’s in the spot light. One of the many evil people is the doctor! That man is one of the lowest life forms on the planet or perhaps the universe! That’s because he only works for money, can’t do his job, and made a baby so sick it seemed liked it could have died. Another person was the priest, he is so selfish. By going to someone’s house to make sure they give money to you is the perfect way to go about financial business. Okay he needs the money but to go to the house that’s just plain rude.
The worst had to be the hunters, they go after Kino to kill him and get the pearl which they didn’t need. Plus there no police so they can kill him and no one will care. Also where are the police? A good guess is under the thumbs of the rich. So they won’t get in trouble unlike the poor.


Overall everyone wants the pearl that belongs to Kino. They don’t realize that they don’t need the pearl and that it probably is going to get them ripped off over and over again until it ends up in a museum. The author probably just wanted you to think about how greedy and selfish people can be due to a stinking pearl which I must say is just a big ball of clam mucus. This story is just plain amazing like how this gift of the gods ripped apart their lives and turned into the devil’s plaything. It’s like in “Pandora’s Box”, it was sent by the gods just to cause havoc. There is an important moral that all people should know in both stories too, for “Pandora’s Box” it was don’t let curiosity over come you, and do not give up hope. For “The Pearl” it was don’t let greed take over your life.


Keep the pearl or destroy it. Be warned if you keep it, it might kill you!
“The Pearl” shows how a dream can turn into a curse and then the devil will rule your life. So be warned: do not let greed lead you to ruin your life like so many people do.