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The wealthy people, represented by the doctor, face poor people who live on a simple and humble way, taking the richness for themselves and refuse kindness or charity to humble people, as evidenced by the doctor’s refusal to see and help to Coyotito. In addition, John Steinbeck shows man’s inhumanity to others throughout the novel. Kino’s discovery of the pearl didn’t bring him wealth and happiness instead, it brought him troubles, difficulties, death and fear to him and his family life. In The Pearl, John Steinbeck shows that wealth can have dire consequences because it engenders greed, envy, and evil. The theme may be the author’s thoughts about a topic or view of human nature. It is the author’s underlying meaning or main idea that he is trying to express. The theme in a novel or fiction piece is a controlling idea or a central insight. The pearl fills Kino with a new desire to abandon his simple, idyllic life in favor of dreams of material and social advancement, dreams that run headlong into the oppressive resistance of the Spanish colonial powers that top the social hierarchy of Kino’s world. Set in a Mexican Indian village on the Baja Peninsula around the turn of the century, the novella tells the story of Kino, an Indian pearl diver who discovers a massive, beautiful, and extremely valuable pearl.

The Pearl originally appeared in the magazine Woman’s Home Companion in 1945 under the title “The Pearl of the World.” The story explores the destructive effect of colonial capitalism on the simple piety of a traditional native culture. Look an example: Chapter Two: “The uncertain air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole Gulf so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted so that sea and land had the sharp clarities and the vagueness of a dream.” The setting of Novel has a dreamlike, surrealistic quality. The Pearl takes place in a small rural town called La Paz on the Baja Peninsula. He reflected his disappointment through a legend about a man who finds The Pearl of the World and is eventually destroyed by greed. He recognized that none of his heroes- the GI, the vagrant, or the scientific visionary- could convey survival in a civilization that created the atomic bomb. Steinbeck was disappointed in the aftermath of World War II.