The 30-000- word story of The Pearl is clear enough. Steinbeck writes of The Pearl that “perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.” The Pearl of the World Sometimes, the lesson of a Jesus’s parable is clear other times, it isn’t. In other words, the story of Kino, Juana and their baby Coyotito is, like the Jesus parable of the Good Samaritan or his one about the Pharisee and the Publican, shorn of realism. “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.” In the context of the story, he explains that it is a story told often by generations of local people. On the very first page of The Pearl, John Steinbeck signals that this short, tense novel is a parable.
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