This relates to the theme because he has a lot of power with the pearl and is leading him to a path of destruction. In the context of the story, he explains that it is a story told often by generations of local people. These thoughts were evil to have because he was falling into a trap. On the very first page of The Pearl, John Steinbeck signals that this short, tense novel is a parable. And then Kino awakened, with the evil music pulsing in him, and he lay in the darkness with his ears alert.(70)”. And then darkness spread over the page, and with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his sleep and when he stirred, Juana’s eyes opened in the darkness. And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. He dreams of the things he wants “But Kino’s brain burned, even during his sleep, and he dreamed that Coyotito could read, that one of his own people could tell him the truth of things. Kino later starts to really think about what he wants out of the pearl. In the start of the story it does not really affect the family in a bad way at all. This is just the beginning of the desires of kino and the start and on the path to destruction. Kino is thinking about what to buy now that he has become wealthy from the pearl. After that He thought of what he could buy “His lips moved hesitantly over this – “A rifle,” he said. Kino went into his canoe and found a pearl in the ocean.
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