John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California. He wrote famous novels such as Of Mice and Men. The document discusses Steinbeck's biography and provides a summary of his novel The Pearl, in which a poor fisherman named Kino finds a large pearl that brings him both riches and dangers from greedier members of his community. It also notes that Steinbeck wrote with many pencils and was investigated by the FBI in the 1940s.

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John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California.
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He was born in 1902 and died on 1968.
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John was of German, English, and Irish
descent.

3. 1.Kino and his family is living the life.
2.Baby Coyotito was stung by a scorpion
3.Family can’t afford for the treatment.

4. 4.Kino then went of a pearl dive and found a
huge pearl from a oyster with a ghostly gleam.
5.The village argues and talk about Kino's pearl.
6.Juana tries to get rid of the pearl but Kino stop
her and beat her.

5. 7.Kino and his family escape the town. Because
Kino killed a man.
8.They tried to avoid people and hides in the
mountain.

6. 9.Coyotito is shot and died.
10.Kino and Juana went back to the village, Kino
realizing the wealth is evil they then throw it
back into the ocean.

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Kino, a poor Indian fisherman, lives on the
Gulf of California with his wife Juana and
infant son Coyotito.

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The period is Unclear, possibly late nineteenth
or early twentieth century
Setting - A Mexican coastal village called La
Paz, probably on the Baja Peninsula

9. Kino – The protagonist
Juana – Kino’s wife
Coyotito – Kino and Juana’s baby child

10. Juan Tomas – Kino’s Brother
Apolonia – Juan Tomas’s Wife
The Doctor – The greedy doctor

11. The Priest – The greedy priest
The Dealers – The pearl buyers
The Trackers – (A Group of men trying to steal
from Kino.)

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The lesson of the story is “Greed can destroy
everything in your life.”
As an example: Kino was living a nice peaceful
life in poverty but still is happy.

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But then when they were in need of money and
they found the pearl of the world it turn
around.

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Kino became greedy and only focus on the
pearl and then slowly his life is beginning to
break apart from peaceful to chaos and fear.

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John Steinbeck is mostly well known for his
books such as “Mice of men”
John Steinbeck write with pencils instead of
pens and he used up about 60 pencil per day.

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He was put in surveillance by the Federal
Bureau of investigation during 1940 due to
complaints about his visits to Soviet Russia.

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John Steinbeck write with pencils instead of
pens and he used up about 60 pencil per day.

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