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Title: The Pearl (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck, Jose Clemente Orozco, Linda Wagner-Martin ISBN: 0-14-018738-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (352 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ignorance grows as the warning grows
Comment: This book is not quite as beautifully written as "Of Mice and Men", but it has a very powerful and true message albeit it might be a little exaggerated in this particular story. It's a tale about the power of the dreams that drives us, taking us places where we didn't dream of going, and neither wanted to go. It's a story about taking one apparently harmless step that forces you to take another step, and yet another until you end up where you didn't expect, one little step that only the wise would avoid taking. It's also a story about day and night, what happens on the surface and what happens beneath.
The message becomes apparent early in the book, but it grows stronger and stronger as the main characters grow more and more ignorant towards it. While reaching the last pages my adrenalin was pumping, knowing that something was going to happen, but not knowing exactly what and I was somewhat surprised by the ending.
This is the second book I've read by Steinbeck and definitely not the last.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Comment: As an eighth grade project, we're being assigned to read the pearl. So far, i think its a great book. (I'm not done)
It's annoying me that so many kids in our class are complaining how hard and boring this book is. I would really love to slap them in the face. This book is incredibly easy and is about at a 9th grade level, and we are in horizons.
Some are prejudiced against mexicans which is really sad seeing as i am half in my blood.
I will not tell you anything about this book, only to just give it a chance. It's an easy read and once you understand the moral and theme it will come to you easier. happy reading!
Rating: 4
Summary: Steinbeck shows the human condition
Comment: John Steinbeck has to be one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century, and this is because his books portray the true human condition and social ills in our country. It is a parable to show how the poorer men in this country are the ones who work the hardest and know more about love than anyone else, yet they are the ones who suffer the most and who are paid the least. They are given little attention, and no one ever stops to help them. It is a book showing the hypocrisy of the wealthy, the church, and the high society. The church will not allow a marriage if someone does not have enough money at the time this book was written, and Steinbeck wrote of the wonderful love between husband, wife, and baby son. This book is easy to read because of the language, yet it is hard to read because it is so sad. A pearl fisher finally finds the pearl of his life- a magnificent pearl that will make him happy and wealthy. Suddenly the doctor who would not help his baby when the baby got stung by a scorpian comes to their aid because he knows that they now have a magnificent pearl. The priest comes to marry them because he knows that they have the pearl now. But when the man goes to the market to sell the pearl, the jewelers refuse to give him what the pearl is worth and try to pass it off as a freak of nature that no one would want to buy. The man is so frustrated that he leaves without selling it. During the night, the wife tries to throw the pearl back into the ocean because she feels that it is bringing them bad fate, but the husband catches her and slaps her. After killing a man over the pearl, the family must run away. The pearl does not bring anything but destruction. This shows that when man gets what he wants, there is still more that he always wants, and there is no end to greed. Money and riches do not bring happiness but destruction. A great story, although it is very sad.
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Title: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177396 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684801221 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 05 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Red Pony by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177361 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177388 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140042407 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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