The pearl by John Steinbeck the name of the book I chose is "The pearl" is by John Steinbeck. The genre of the book is fiction and has 87 pages. The book talks about about a Mexican pearl fisherman named Kino with a wife named Juana and a child named Coyotito. The family lives in a poor Mexican town called La Paz, the town is near the gulf, so there are many fishermen and pearl divers. a poor side where all the poor live and a rich side with beautiful houses, and a doctor who only helps the rich who can pay him, another setting is the gulf where he finds his precious pearl in sorrow little Coyotito is stung by one scorpion but the doctor doesn't take care of him as the family is poor. While diving, Kino finds a huge pearl which they call "The Pearl of the World" and sees his rich future by getting married, his son grows up in school reading books. When he goes to sell the pearl none of the pearl dealers want it because it is too big and cannot be used for anything. The pearl brings great misfortune to the family, a man attacks Kino, Kino kills the man and decides to move north to sell the pearl. On the road north the family is hunted by three hunters in search of the pearl. The hunters kill the child but are then killed by Kino. Kino and his wife return to their village and throw the pearl into the ocean where it belongs. My favorite character in the book is Kino, Kino is a strong and robust man still very young with his first newborn. At first he is a family man, all he cares about is protecting and providing for his family, he even hears what he calls the family song in his head. As the story progresses, he finds the pearl and begins to hear the song of… middle of the card… without ever saying where it was going or what was about to happen. I liked the similes and metaphors in this book and there were quite a few. "He hissed at her like a snake", "Kino was cold as steel", "Coyotito was reading a book as big as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book", He was an animal now , to hide, to attack, and lived only to preserve himself and his family." Steinbeck has great similes and metaphors on almost every page. He also has some good images: "The dawn has come quickly now, a washing, a glow, a lightness, and then an explosion of fire as the sun rose over the gulf." I could picture this in my head as I read the book. "They saw the flames high and raging, they saw the roof collapse, and I watched the fire go out with as quickly as a twig dies." The book simply oozes with literary elements.