The Parable Of The Pearl By John Steinbeck

In the parable of The Pearl, Steinbeck includes many actions that many religions may oppose or agree with. Looking at The Pearl through an Islamic lens of experts in Islam many sections seem to be similar and different from The Pearl. When I interviewed people that I know are knowledgeable in Islam and The Quran there were many opinions that came up about the actions that Kino had done in The Pearl. Some opinions were that if Kino was Muslim he would have do the same exact thing, but if he was Muslim then he would have sold the pearl and donated some of the money to the other poor people. Lastly, when Kino killed the man he had the right to do so if he was Muslim. When I interviewed my grandmother Adela she said, if Kino was Muslim “he would have done the same exact thing” (Adela AlHamad), and turned down the offer to sell the pearl for what the dealers offered him. When Kino said, "It is worth fifty thousand", it lead me to believe that he wants much more then what he was offered, and that price was the byproduct of the greed in Kino’s heart. The greed within Kino was the obstacle in the way of his family’s wellbeing. If he had not
When Kino decided to go “to the capital”, he wanted to get more out of selling the pearl. Getting more out of the pearl would allow him to donate some money to the poor and keeping money for him and his family in order to help them. If he really wanted to give some money to the poor he would have sold the pearl for the price he was offered which was, “a thousand pesos” and thus him not having to leave and that would have kept his child alive. With the remaining money he had after donating he could have educated his son, which is what he wanted from the beginning. The religion of Kino would have made an immense change on the plot of The