.In the book “The Pearl”, the story talks about many things about happiness, greed, wealth..I think that if the story was a parable, the lesson or moral that I get from the story would be too much greed will harm you and corrupt you. There were many different examples in the book, Kino, pearl dealer, and the doctor.
In the book, Kino was originally a man who was kind and was amiable to everyone. He was a pearl diver. Even though he was not rich, he was still happy because of his baby, wife, and canoe, anything that he could be thankful of. However, after he had found the Pearl of the World, he started to be greedy; his main purpose of finding a pearl was to pay the doctor for curing Coyotito. However, after finding a magnificent pearl, his dreams of becoming rich and successful became bigger as time went on. He was thinking of buying a rifle, giving Coyotito education, marrying Juana in the big church, and living in a new big house. So even though the pearl dealers gave a price that was way lower than he had expected it to be, he didn’t sell the pearl to the dealers and left the city. Kino could have sold the very valuable pearl with the cheap price, and still become rich, but his greed for rich became too big he couldn’t accept it.
Kino also started to start being worried of everyone, because he knows that everyone in the village wants his pearl and take it from him. He was going to the anything from protecting his wealth, and he ever killed people by doing that. But while he tried to kill the person with the rifle, he started to have a outrage and shot the rifle all around the place, and it killed his son. He was so greedy with his pearl that he lost something that was even more valuable to him. The greed for money had corrupted him to believe that money was the most important thing in all and money will allow him to do anything he could do anything he wanted to do.
Another figure that gives you a lesson about greed was the pearl dealers. If the pearls dealers didn’t go cutting the prices so much. They could of at least buy the pearl, even though the profit you make will be less. They tried so hard to maximize their profit in that moment, they just lost all the profit that they could actually make by even buying the pearl in higher price and sell it.
The last character that reflected to the moral was the doctor. He was so greedy at the start that he did not take care of Coyotito at the start. He was only thinking about the wealth that he had when he was in Europe and he tired of doing his job without any money. I’m if the doctor came and check on Coyotito, Kino would have thanked him more graciously and then there could have been an extra tip. In the end, the doctor received nothing because the pearl was thrown away and Kino couldn’t pay the price back. So his plan of getting some money off the pearl had failed.
I believe that a little bit of greed is okay. It can be like a goal that you expect to make. However if the greed overflows in you, it becomes bad and yourself becomes corrupted. Your thoughts change like how Kino becomes, you do not realize what is truly important. It may be different for other people, but this is how I interpret what the moral is.
