The Pearl Essay
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Can materialism corrupt and destroy? In the novel The Pearl,
Stienbeck shows how materialism can corrupt and destroy. For example, Kino
hitting his wife Jauna, the doctor poisons the baby and the jewelers trying
to cheat Kino out of money. Materialism corrupts and destroys.
In the beginning of the ....
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.... to see them.
"He's a client of mine I'm treating his baby for a scorpion sting."(22) At
their house he said that the baby was getting worse, so he gave the baby
medicine which was actually poison. He came back an hour later. The doctor
said he cured the baby but really he poisoned the baby then he cured him
so he could get money.
Kino took the pearl to town to cash it in. He went to a lot of
jewelers to see who would offer him the most amount of money. "Well let me
see your pearl, we will gi ....
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Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
