The Pearl (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: A five-day period in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century
- Setting: Baja California, Mexico
- Genres: Short fiction, Parable
- Subjects: Tradition, Superstition, Prejudices or antipathies, Native Americans or American Indians, Creoles, Good and evil, Greed, Mexico or Mexicans, Church or churches
- Locales: Baja California, Mexico
Characters Discussed
Kino, a young Mexican-Indian pearl diver at the peak of his physical powers. With black, unruly hair, keen dark eyes, and a coarse, ragged mustache, Kino is lithe and strong, able to gather oysters underwater for a full two minutes without surfacing and to move about, catlike and undetected, in the dark and on rough terrain. Devoted to his wife, Juana, and his infant son, Coyotito, and proud of his position as head of his family and initially content with the traditional life of his ancestors, Kino has dreams and needs that are at first simple. When he...
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See Also:
- - For teachers, the The Pearl Lesson Plan.
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