Kino And Juana's Happiness In The Pearl
The Pearl begins with a tone of love, admiration for nature, quietness and happiness. As the story advances several things happen so that the tone changes and when reading one may feel even frustrated and angry about the unfairness. Before any ‘tone-changing’ event happens, the story is very happy and so are Kino and Juana. We can notice that by the lines “Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good –Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.” They clearly were happy, not that they had everything one could want, luxuries, but they had what they needed, for people or a higher class that would be unbearable, but if they were alive means they had whatever they needed.
The way they lived was fine by them. Kino, for instance, even enjoyed the sound of the waves in the morning, and nature was something they admire though they lived and saw everything bloom, they still loved it. Everything was always the same, very routinary but they liked it that way. I can say that it was routinary mainly because of two lines: “Kino could see things without looking at them.” and “it was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings”. It can be seen that he really liked living there though, as we know by now, it wasn’t a very safe place, because of this line: “He slipped his feet into his sandals and went outside to watch the dawn.”
The happy events on the story last very little, until the scorpion appears and then on everything is frustration, being angry and impotent, all bad feelings. But for me it is clear that that family was very happy before that, someone who loves, and whose love is reciprocal, is happy. In the story love is clearly there, not only between Kino and Juana, but also the love of them to Coyotito. Actually their love to the child was immense, happiness was immense.
They didn’t complain about their social status, economical situation, education, or the way they were treated, instead they woke up every...
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