The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947. It is the story of a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed and evil. In 1947, it was adapted into a film named La perla.
Kino, a young, strong, and poor Mexican-Indian pearl diver, lives in a small town, La Paz, with his domestic partner (to whom he is not married because he cannot afford to pay the priest for a wedding ceremony), Juana, and his b...
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The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947. It is the story of a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed and evil. In 1947, it was adapted into a film named La perla.
Kino, a young, strong, and poor Mexican-Indian pearl diver, lives in a small town, La Paz, with his domestic partner (to whom he is not married because he cannot afford to pay the priest for a wedding ceremony), Juana, and his baby son, Coyotito. When Coyotito is stung by a scorpion, Kino must find a way to pay the town doctor, an extremely prejudiced white man, to cure Kino's son. When Kino discovers an enormous pearl the size of a seagull's egg when out diving, he is ready to sell it for money to pay the doctor. But other forces work against Kino.
Nearly as soon as Kino returns from sea, the whole town knows of the pearl. Nicknamed "the pearl of the world," many people begin to crave it. Soon after the pearl is found, Kino is attacked in his own home. Determined to...
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