The Pearl by John Steinbeck is a short story about a family that find a pearl to get money to pay for their sons doctor bill. But along the story the event and characters portray a theme of money doesn't alway bring happiness and of that everything is either good or evil.
The events that show the theme of good and evil are:
Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion-Bad
Kino find the pearl- Good
Goes to Doctor, Doctor say can't help because he doesn't like their race-Bad
Robber breaks in and tries to get the pearl-Bad
They get low-balled for the pearl-Bad
Juana tries to get rid of the pearl-Bad for Kino good for Juana and Bad for Coyotito
Kino kills people trying to steal pearl-bad
Their house burns down-Bad
Kino leaves his house to find a better life/offers for pearl-Good
Robber try to steal the pearl again-Bad
Coyotito dies-Bad
They get rid of the pearl- Good
These events show the theme of everything is good or evil and these are all the main events.
The main characters show the theme in that they are not happy when they get the pearl because it draws negative attention like robbers and bad people trying to steal the pearl or kill Kino and Juana. They every say that they can hear evil songs coming out of the pearl.
The themes of The Pearl are portrayed by the event and character and the theme are that money doesn't always bring happiness and that every thing is either good or bad. Steinbeck even states, “And, as with all retold tales that are in people's
hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things
and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere.”
