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Compare And Contrast The Pearl And Coyotito
The Book The Pearl is very different from the movie Because in the book Coyotito dies but in the movie he doesn’t . The only thing that is the same is that Kino throws the Pearl in the water and that he finds the great Pearl . Once kino does that he is happy that the Pearl will not bring him more bad luck because that was the only thing that the pearl gave him instead of money and happiness . The doctor help’s Coyotito ,but in the book he doesn’t help at all . To me the book is very different from the Movie but the book is better because the movie leaves out specific details in the book like coyotito dies in the book but not in the movie .

The movie the pearl is really Different from the book because Kino starts off as a little boy instead of a man . Both of the book and the movie start off in La Paz with the brush houses and the rich people a couple miles away . In both versions the Doctor only treats rich people but not poor people because the doctor knew they had no money . The doctor does not
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In the Story Kino hits Juana because she almost threw the Pearl in the water because she knew that the Pearl will bring her and her family really bad luck . she didn’t want bad luck so as she was getting closer to the water Kino comes out of nowhere and gets the Pearl and then slaps her . Kino only slapped her because he thought that she was gonna steal it but Juana told kino “this thing is evil “ she said , it was like a sin ! (p.38). The movie left out a big part in the book , they missed out that Coyotito got his head blown off by the man with the rifle towards the end of the book . (p.86-87). Both the book and the movie are a little different from each other because the doctor sends a tracker with servants to help find Kinon cause all the doctor wants is the Great Pearl

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