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A review and evaluation of a literary text chosen by the student for an audience unfamiliar with it.
Steinbeck - THE PEARL
Title: A review and evaluation of a literary text chosen by the student for an audience unfamiliar with it.
Steinbeck - THE PEARL
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 1174 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
A review and evaluation of a literary text chosen by the student for an audience unfamiliar with it.
Steinbeck - THE PEARL
-meant to be a short review
John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" said to be "a brutal story with flashes of beauty" by the author himself, is a rather depressing novella about wealth and the evil it attracts despite those wanting to use it for the greater good.
Written in 1944, it was influenced and inspired by a number of sources. The basic plot was adapted from the "Sea of Cortez" an earlier narrative Steinbeck wrote during the …showed first 75 words of 1174 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1174 total…that has marked Steinbeck's work as a whole is...the sense of black and white things and good and bad things - that is to say, the sense of a fabulist of a propagandist rather than the insight of an artist." However, readers would agree that it is the allegorical form along with the poetry of the simplistic language and underlying symbolism that makes "The Pearl" such a work of art and a joy to read.
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