pearl
The Pearl by Steinbeck describes what happened in a poor farmerˇ¦s family after they found a valuable pearl. The title is The Pearl. ... The most obvious symbol is the pearl. ... In reality, it makes Kino becomes greedy, and when he turns down the pearl buyers, bad things happen. ... After he finds the pearl, he becomes more and more desperate in his mission to gain material wealth, and this drive ultimately brings him to a state of animalistic violence.