." - Mahatma Gandhi In John Steinbeck's novella, "The Pearl," the poor and unfortunate protagonist, Kino, comes across a beautiful, majestic pearl. To Kino, the pearl brings security and comfort to his family. ... John Steinbeck illustrates three essential morals in The Pearl, which include, the importance of family, how greed leads to devastation, and how money cannot buy happiness. ... Almost all the people involved with the pearl become greedy, and want much more than they have, including the pearl buyers. When Kino tries to sell the pearl, the pearl buyers try to cheat him so that th...

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In his later life, Steinbeck married three times. ... Steinbeck lived through other tragedies too. ... Steinbeck published 27 books (Harmon). His early books were, The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, and Sea of Cortez. ... Steinbeck had many influences for his stories. ...

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I decided to read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck because I enjoyed reading The Pearl for class. Just like The Pearl, this book also made me feel as if I was right there along with the characters. ... From doing some research on this novel, I found out that Steinbeck's inspiration for this book actually came from a poem by Robert Burns, titled To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough. ... Perhaps to signify the fact that she is insignificant, Steinbeck never revealed if she did in fact have a real name, other than "Curly's wife." ...

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