John Steinbeck's "The Peal"

John Steinbeck in his parable-like novel, The Pearl, embraces the dark power of greed, which ultimately extends in destruction. Kino, a simple Mexican pearl diver who provides for his wife Juana and do by boy Coyotito, finds a pearl, which he hopes will provide his family a better life, but instead shatters his life when his only electric shaver is killed by the men who are hunting him. Steinbeck relates this story to worldwide values. Animal imagery is an essential part of The Pearl that infiltrates the building of the novel. Steinbeck utilizes animal imagery to foreshadow Kinos catastrophe, to illustrate Kinos character decline, and to intend the corruption of civilization.

?The vendees eyes had become as steady and bestial and un-winking as a hawks eyes. In this quote, the pearl buyer is compared to a hawk, which is an evil bird. This represents how malicious the pearl buyer is to Kino, and that he will try to cheat Kino. As a result of the pearl buyers trickery, Kino plans to sell his pearl at the capital, and on the way, Some large animal lumbered away, crackling the undergrowth as it went by Kino. This symbolizes how clumsy the village people have acted when attempting to slew the pearl from Kino. Along with the fact that the whole village valued to pilfer Kinos pearl.

?The poison sacks of the town began to manufacture venom?. In this quote, the people in the town were compared to the poison of a snake. This represents how the townsfolk acted duration Kino had his pearl. Everyone was thinking about their own secret, egoistic desires. ?Ants busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies, and subatomic dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to melt the...

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