Pearl Societies ApartAn Essay on the Societies Portrayed
In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, there are two main cultural groups : the European settlers and the Mexican-Indians, which are different in most every way with the way they think of one another, how they judge, who they respect, and their part in society. ... He decides not to help Kino and his family until after they get the pearl, and when he finds out nothing seems wrong, he poisons Coyotito to stage the healing. ... This happens in other characters as well, so the upper class is mainly portrayed like this in The Pearl. ... Steinbeck wants readers to understand the hardship and hate that the characters from the different societies felt, while calling forth the same feelings from the readers. He wonderfully created each character to reflect a certain aspect of their culture and places them cleverly in the story of the pearl of the world.