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My theme of the pearl is joy feeling of great pleasure and happiness.this is good because The author is tell us that he is happy because he found the pearl of the world. I know this because the text says “the music of the pearl rose like of chorus of trumpets in his ears”.this connection is to joy because it made kino happy to and joyful hear the music of something so exotic.

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The theme for the Pearl is hope, if you have hope it may come true.

The message is once you decide to hope everything is possible .  Kino says “ My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing, and my son will make numbers, and these things will make us free because he will know-he will know and through him we will know.”

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One possible theme for the story is Loss of innocence. I picked this topic because in p 37 “age felt cloth struck at it with his knife and miss and struck again and felt his knife go through cloth” the theme is about loss of innocence happens to everyone.

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The theme is determination to be better has its ups and lows because when they get the pearl they are determined to put kino in school and get him a better life the lows are people are tried to use them

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My theme is hope when Kino finds the pearl this gives him hope for a better future. He feels if he has money that will bring happiness. He could see the doctor for his son because he would have money to pay him.

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The theme of the Pearl is Fate vs. desire. The message of the book is to not let your fate take over but to think about your desires. Kino and Juana's lives have changed ever since the moment the scorpion bites their child. Their lives then change again the moment Kino finds the pearl, a symbol of beneficent fate. Kino's desire to acquire wealth perverts the pearl's natural beauty and good luck, transforming it from a symbol of hope to a symbol of human destruction. “All manner of people grew interested in Kino - people with things to sell and people with favors to ask.” On page 23.

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My theme is, fear an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. I know this because in the book it says “He smelled the breeze and he listened for any foreign sound of secrecy or creeping, and his eyes searched the darkness, for the music of evil was sounding in his head and he was fierce and afraid.

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The theme of this story is Abuse of power can make a powerful thing be misinterpreted to other people because when Kino found the pearl people thought about themselves and wanted to misuse/take advantage of the pearl. For example, when the baby got stung by the scorpion, Kino went to the doctor. The doctor said that he was not a veterinarian, basically saying that there are animals and he doesn’t want to treat themaslp because they are poor and they have no money. But once the doctor found out that he found the pearl said, “He is a client of mine,” Pg. 22 The doctor also thought about going to Paris, “I am treating his child for scorpion sting,” and the doctor’s eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris.” Pg. 22 This shows that the doctor is taking advantage of Kino’s fortune by switching up on him because he now has money.

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Topic good vs evil
The Theme is that good always prevails evil. There was good in the family dynamics at the beginning. Ones Kino found The Pearl the people around kino were fighting to se who could buy it or to sell who could still it. Good is the family song kino would hear from the happiness of being with his family. Evil is the bad songs he would hear when  bad people/things would enters his domain. Page 2 “In Kino’s  head there was a song now, now, clear and soft, and if he had been able to speak from it, he would have called the song of the Family

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A theme in The Pearl is that Ignorance can be dangerous. I know this because when the doctor shows up and says that Coyotito is still ill and needs help Kino has no choice, but to trust him, because he doesn’t possess the knowledge to be able to tell if he’s lying or not. “…He could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man’s possible knowledge.” However in having to trust him he also essentially allowed the doctor to give what the reader can infer is most likely a poison that made Coyotito sick. “The spasm of the stomach muscles began, and the baby was very sick.” Therefore a theme in The Pearl is Ignorance can be dangerous.

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One possible theme of the story is hate, “He could kill the doctor more easily than he could talk to him, for all of the doctors' race spoke of Kino’s race as though they were simple animals.” Pg.9

This represents hatred Kino has for the doctor because of the ignorance he has towards Kino and his race.

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My theme of the pearl is the change of their lives because in the pearl they saw their future and how their lives will change. On page 24 it said “in the pearl he saw juana and coyotito and himself standing and kneeling at the high altar, and they were being married now that they could pay”.

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The topic of “The pearl” is temptation. The message of the book is to not let another man’s wealth and fortune take over your own emotions. Many townspeople all see the pearl as if they had it and what they would do with the pearl. “Every man suddenly became related to kino's pearl, and Kino’s pearl went into the dreams,the speculations, the schemes, the planes, the futures,the wishes, the needs, the lust, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man’s enemy.”

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The theme is happines because when they get the pearl their life turns around and it is good.

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Post your theme here- remember a theme is a statement not a one word topic. Also include text evidence to back your theme.

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The theme is Family vs. society as family is the only people you can trust . Everyone expects a lot from Kino even though it was him who found the pearl not everyone else . They all want the riches from the pearl. Having the pearl is risky for Kino; it can bring danger to his family and himself.  On page 29 it says “Kino felt all the warmth and security of his family behind him, and the song of the Family came from behind him like the purring of a kitten.”

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The theme of The Pearl is hope there is hope  because if you have hope in life things could turn out good.Kino is hoping that him and his family become rich off of the pearl. Kino also has big dreams for him and his family. Juana wants Kino to get rid of the pearl,but instead Kino wants to sell it.

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The theme of the Pearl is that Greed corrupts people completely. I know this because the doctor refuses to help Kino when he is poor. " I alone in the world  am supposed to work  for nothing- and I am tired of it."
The greed of the doctor shows because he is not worried about helping the baby get better he is only worried about getting paid for it.

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The theme for The Pearl is Desire to escape poverty because in the book it states that Kino and his family were poor. Once Kino found the pearl he was determined to make a better life for his family. The quote on page 38 says “This is our chance”, “Our son must go to school. He must break out the pot that holds us in.”

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My theme is, temptation doesn’t always turn out bad, meaning that when they got the pearl nothing bad happened, unlike the other stories when bad luck occurred for them right away.

“but Juana's eyes were on him and she could not wait. She put her hand on Coyotito's covered head. Open it, she said softly.” Pg 19