This relates to the theme because he has a lot of power with the pearl and is leading him to a path of destruction. These thoughts were evil to have because he was falling into a trap. And then Kino awakened, with the evil music pulsing in him, and he lay in the darkness with his ears alert.(70)”. And then darkness spread over the page, and with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his sleep and when he stirred, Juana’s eyes opened in the darkness. And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. The Pearl, which takes place in La Paz, Mexico, begins with a description of the seemingly idyllic family life of Kino, his wife Juana and their infant son, Coyotito. The story follows a man named Kino from La Paz, California, who finds a large pearl one day. He dreams of the things he wants “But Kino’s brain burned, even during his sleep, and he dreamed that Coyotito could read, that one of his own people could tell him the truth of things. Published in 1947, The Pearl is a dark novella written by John Steinbeck. In John Steinbecks The Pearl, the wealthy doctor at first refuses to treat Kinos infant son Coyotito for a scorpion sting because Kino cannot afford to pay.

Kino later starts to really think about what he wants out of the pearl. In the start of the story it does not really affect the family in a bad way at all. This is just the beginning of the desires of kino and the start and on the path to destruction. Kino is thinking about what to buy now that he has become wealthy from the pearl. After that He thought of what he could buy “His lips moved hesitantly over this – “A rifle,” he said. The story was originally published in an issue of 'Woman's Home Companion' magazine and is the re-imagining of a Mexican folk tale that Steinbeck heard while traveling in La Paz, Mexico in 1940. Kino went into his canoe and found a pearl in the ocean. 'The Pearl' is a novella written by the famous American author John Steinbeck and published in 1947.

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