The Pearl-Hw Entry

The Pearl by John Steinbeck, concedes an issue that has carried on for many generations. It brilliantly addresses the sin of avarice and how it can spread like an influenza through populations. Kino (a pearl fisherman), and his family lived in a traditional, ingrained society until Kino's finding of the "Pearl of the World" as it was called toppled the delphic roots of his society. Once the Pearl came to be Kino dreamed of better for him and his family but so did many others ignoreing the fact that the pearl had an owner. The once simple pacific place Kino knew was gone. The pearl ignited a chimera of opportunity in people far and near sucking society's purity and causeing neighbor to turn on neighbor erupting in raw, sanguinary conflicts to make their dreams a reality. This can be connected to today's world, although a much more impure place, still able to be stained with this dire sin. This Cupidity has emerged the enormouse coercion all over the world, feeding on the innocence of the unexpecting and manifesting itself in the physical forms of robbery, murder, human trafficking, etc...