The Pearl is a piece of literature by the American author John Steinbeck. It was first published as a short story in 1945, and later published as an expanded novella two years later. The story follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl-rich region in 1940. The Pearl is one of Steinbeck's most popular books and has been widely used in US middle and high school classes. The Pearl is sometimes considered a parable. The book was adapted as a Mexican film named La Perla (1947) and as a Kannada-language movie Ondu Muttina Kathe (1987) in India.
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The Pearl was adapted into a 1947 film.
La perla1947 · film · 85 min · dir. Emilio Fernández · IMDb ↗IMDb7.490%Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
