Today, as I updated my 2012 list of reads, I realized that I had not reviewed The Pearl.
This novel I read along with my daughter, who was assigned this as a whole class read. I downloaded a version to our Kindle, and we discussed as she was assigned portions of the novel.
Steinbeck creates a character Kino, a pearl diver, who upon finding a grand pearl, then proceeds to discover the forces of good and evil resides in us all when his son is stung by a scorpion and the pearl buyers refuse to give him the value of the pearl, resulting in not having the money for treatment for his son.
This pearl does become of one great price, as it will cost Kino more than he ever dreamed.
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