C
APTERl
INTRODl'CTION
Ll
Backg!·eum!
The. Pearl
by
Johc
Steh:beck
is
very
interesting
w
be
analyzed.
The
story
of
tr.is
novel
is
possible
to
happen
in
a
real
life.
The
story presents
the
main
character,
Kino,
who
is
a. poor
Mexican-fndian.
He lives with
his
wife, Juana and
their
little
baby..
Coyotito. Kino
earns
money
to
support
their
life
by
fishing
pearls.
T'ney
live
in
a
small
wooden
house
on the
coast.
Once
upou a time when Coyotito
gets
a
serious accident
and
needs
money
for the
doctor to cure,
Kino
decides
to
seek
more
pearl
dov.m the
beach.
Luckily,
he
finds
an
extraordinary
pearl
he
has
ever
seen. Since
that time,
bs
life
has
changed.
At
first
he
thinks
that
the
pearl
wilt give
him a
lot
of
money
sv
that he car1
hrbg his son
to
the
doctor. However, the
pear!brings
him a terrible
life and
a
bad
luck
instead
of happiness.
.
The
writer
believes that
probably
in every
family, we
do
have that
similar
problems
as
it
is
in
the
presented
story.
Therefore,
the
writer
of
this
paper
wants
to
get
the
theme
tlrrough
the
main character,
Kino,
to
get
iceas
and
messages
that
are
beneficial
for
us
to
apply
it
in a
real
life. Each
character
in this story
has different
identity which
is
mace
by
Ll-teir
thoughts,
behavio:-, appearance,
actions, and conversations.
Things
they
say,
things
they
do and things
they
think
are
the
way
the
wTiter tries
to get
the
central
idea and
messages from
this story.
As
the
theme
of
a
story
is
the
basic
element
of
the
literary work
and
a
controlling
idea,
where
it
generally
happens
in
human
life,
the
writer
considers
that
theme
must
also
state
its own
central
purpose.
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