The Pearl is a story about an Mexican Indian man and woman, set in the early to mid- 1900's, in Bolivia. It was written by John Steinbeck as a short fiction book that tells of the family's life just before, during, and just after find a great pearl. The book was an amazing and discussed many different ideas. The main idea discussed is whether or not being rich is a good thing. The story explained …showed first 75 words of 1231 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1231 total…in order to begin to achieve what he wanted, and all that did was get him in more trouble. There are very few people who can successful maintain a rich status through honesty. This is only in the monetary status though, many people, including Kino, are rich in life. This is the best type of richness and usually, monetary rich people are very poor in life. Kino was rich even though he didn't know it.