John Steinbeck Novels
I have recently finished reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The
Pearl". These two and many other of Steinbeck's books have a couple of things in
common. The first thing is that they are all about poor people/families. The second thing
is that they are almost always terribly sad in the end. The third thing they share is that I
enjoy each one very much. I have never read a book by John Steinbeck that I did not like,
even though his books do not exactly cheer me up.
"The Pearl" is about a poor man named Kino, his wife Juana, and their baby boy
Coyotito. Kino is a pearl diver, but since there are so many other pearl divers where he
lives, he very rarely finds any valuable pearls. In the very beginning of the book, Coyotito
gets stung by a scorpion and becomes very ill. Since Kino and his family are very poor,
they cannot afford to get Coyotito a doctor. The very next day, Kino finds a pearl beyond
his wildest dreams. Word spreads......
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