Pearl
John Steinbeck, a talented Renaissance man and genius, is the writer of The Pearl, which was published in the year 1947. The book is grounded in legend: the author was first introduced to the tale of pearls when gathering specimens of marine biology in the year 1940 from the Gulf of California (or Sea of Cortes). Steinbeck was famous for his remarkable and fascinating activities, such as gathering specimens of marine biology from the Gulf of California. At first, he desired to portray his tale in the form of a movie; however, he ended up portraying it in the form of a short novel, to the great fortune of the literary world. The story serves as a moral tale on evil and avarice, narrating a simple account to convey a great old message (Schmoop, 2016).
The uncomplicated, touching tale of Steinbeck's was published initially in the year 1945, in the American monthly, Woman's Home Companion, as "The Pearl of the World." The tale examines colonial capitalism's damaging impact on the modest goodness of a time-honored native cultural system (Sparknotes, 2016). The author made it a career goal to bare the brutality meted out to the less fortunate beings (and how this "less fortunate"...
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