Summary:
The Pearl is about a Native
American family whose baby gets poisoned and the family must choose to go
to the town next door or to conquer the poison in their world. After that
problem had been taken care of they had found what they call “the
pearl of the world”and find themselves in a big mess. They have trackers
on their trail and everyone in the village besides the brother of the family
thinks they were killed. Find out what kind of mess they’re in and
how everyone thinks they died in this great book.
Review:
You live in a small village
next to a town. You have a wife, a brother and a son who is about
one. You and the villagers fish for clams and look for pearls when you fish.
After your baby becomes poisoned you go to the town and ask for help but
there are no doctors there so you decide to treat him yourself. You and
your wife go out looking for a pearl and you find what everyone in
the village calls, ”the pearl of the world.”
In this book Kino and his wife
must help their baby get well after being bitten by a scorpion. Then they
find the pearl of the world. By the time they get back to the village
everyone already knew he had found the pearl of the world. The next day
the word made it to the town that's next to the village. Later on
they find themselves fleeing the village after an accident. The town sent
trackers after them to chase them down and maybe even kill them.
My favorite incident in The Pearl
is when the trackers are resting right below the place were Kino and his
family are hiding. Will Kino stay there being silent and hope
they go away? Or will he do something he might later on regret? After the
trackers are gone the family goes back to the village but there’s
someone who doesn’t make it back there alive! Who doesn’t
make it back? Read the book and find out.
If you like a book that goes
back in time and is an action packed story, you should really read
The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Reviewer: Scott S
House: Androscoggin
Teacher: Ms. Deschambeault
Date: January 4th 2005
