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the pearl
Title: the pearl
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 520 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
the pearl
The Pearl takes place in an impoverished Mexican-Indian community in La Paz. In this story Kino and Juana are used as a symbol of this community. Kino is a devoted father who loves his son, Coyotito and his wife, Juana. When the story begins, the couple is perfectly content with their situation and their lack of material possessions. As Kino takes a look at his family, he realizes that this is the “whole” and it …showed first 75 words of 520 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 520 total…Paz, without selling the pearl. Kino then throws the pearl back into the ocean and discards the meaningless object. The pearl has no meaning to Kino and Juana anymore because without Coyotito, the pearl no longer has the power to provide a better future for the two, who now, could only gain material things from it. The pearl that they thought would secure prosperity and stability, in the end, only offers them pain and danger.
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