The pearl

 

Author: John Steinbeck

Genre: Novel

Point of view: Third person

Setting: small town in Mexico

Main Characters: Kino, Juana, Juan Thomas and his wife, the doctor, the pearl buyers, and the trackers

Mood: Peaceful and sad

Literary device: Assonance, alliteration, metaphor

Plot:

Kino’s son gain bited but the doctor didn’t treat them because they are poor people. So Kino went to sea and find a valuable pearl. He suddenly become everyone’s enemy. When the time he wants to sell his pearl, he felt those buyer are all lying. So he want to Mexico city to sell his pearl, but he was followed by the trackers. Later on, they have a fight, and his son had been died by that even Kino suddenly realized something, so he and his wife go back to the small town and throe the pearl back into sea.