The Pearl Essay

The Pearl by John Steinbeck is a great book. I really loved this book, but if I could change anything it would be the ending. The ending to this book was very depressing and sad. It made me feel like I should write an alternate ending. Although The Pearl has a very surprising and sad ending, I believe there should be a different ending to this book.

The Pearl has a violent ending. If I could change the ending I would make it a happier ending with less violence and death. The worst part was when the baby died. If I rewrote the ending I would make sure that the baby doesn’t die. Another part I really didn’t like was when Kino started killing people. Kino could have just listened to Juana and thrown the pearl back into the ocean. If he would have thrown the pearl back into the ocean sooner, he would have prevented anything bad from happening to their family.

The first thing that is happy about my ending is that the baby wouldn’t die or get bit by a scorpion. The first day, Kino and his family go in the canoe searching for pearls. Kino jumps into the water to go try and find some pearls, because he is a pearler. He comes up with a handful of oysters. In one of those oysters he finds the pearl of the world. When Kino comes home, people in town find out that Kino found this amazing pearl. Everyone in the town wants the pearl. People want to try to kill him for the pearl. When Kino finds out that people want to kill him for the pearl, Juana and Kino decide that the best thing to do to save their family is to throw the pearl back into the ocean right away.

The people in the town still think that he has the pearl, so some trackers try to find him and kill him. Knowing this, Kino leads his family into the mountains. When Juana and Kino hide in a cave Coyotito doesn’t start crying. The trackers never hear a noise so they don’t shoot at the sound of crying. The story ends up not as depressing and sad as the book. The baby ends up living and the pearl is thrown back into the ocean. Kino doesn’t kill anyone and they end up living happily knowing that owning the pearl of the world isn’t what makes you happy.

In conclusion my alternate ending would have a happier ending than the original. It would be less depressing and sad. My alternate ending would be more enjoyable to the people who read The Pearl.