Reflection

The Pearl by John Steinback evolves around how rich can ruin one families life. This story starts by Coyotito, Kino and Juana’s baby, get bitten by poisonous scorpion. Kino and Juana try to cure Coyotito but doctor refuse to cure them because they don’t have any money. To earn money, Kino and Juana goes out into the sea to find pearl. They finally find pearl and try to sell it, but all the pearl buyers are calling low amount of money because they went the pearl in the cheapest price. Because of the low price, Kino don’t sell the pearl and keep it. However, many people try to steal it and finally, Kino killed one person and house was all burned up. They finally decided to leave their hometown because of the trackers who are trying to find them and get the pearl. After few days, Kino fight with trackers and kill all of them. While he was fitting, however, his shot missed the tracker and blew up Coyotito’s head off. After killing Coyotito, he comes back to hometown and throw pearl back into the ocean.

After reading this book, I found lots of connection to my own life. First, this story relates to my personal experience because when I had no money, my friends won’t let me borrow any of their stuff. However, when I got money from my mom, they started to lending me all these stuffs that I didn’t even asked for. This experience connects with the story where doctor doesn’t do anything for Kino at first, but after Kino finding the pearl, he comes right away and try to help Coyotito. In addition, when Kino found the pearl, he tried to sell it in a good price. This means that he is trying to earn more money which relates to my own life. For example, I love money. Even though I have enough money to enjoy myself and buy what I need, I want it more. This resulted me to lie to my mom to get more money from her by telling her that I need money for project.

For all these reasons, my life is experience is strongly connected with this book, The Pearl by John Steinback. From this book, I again realized how being rich can just ruin our life instantly. I think just following God’s words are the best way to keep us in holy way. It was a fun book. I want to recommend this book to who thinks that money is everything in their life.