NAME: ANGELA OPPONG
TEACHERS: MR ASAF AND MISS TAYKI.
ENGLISH
INDEPENDENT STUDY UNIT.
AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON THE BOOK ‘THE PEARL’ BY JOHN STIENBECK.
The Pearl
Once there was a small village where Kino and his family as well as relatives live in. All the people living in this village have similar houses as Kino’s house. I/ the reader can tell that the people living in this village are also very poor and therefore are probably uneducated. Furthermore, this village serves as a contrast to the town that the rich people live in. Since the people are poor and uneducated, the rich people will be able to take advantage of them easily. The setting contributes to the theme of the social class since it demonstrated the inequality between the rich and the poor. Since Kino is very poor, so when he discovers the pearl, people should feel happy for him, right? It is not this case in this novel. People want to steal the pearl even though they are already very rich. Thus, this setting clearly helps to demonstrate the tendency of human beings to be greedy and cruel even to those who have already suffered for a long period of time.
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