The Pearl

 In the Pearl by, Jhon steinbeck he uses the characters in the story help with the theme , by helping move along the story with events that involve them. The theme is that greed can make you do things that you thought you'd never do. Kino was a nice and caring man in the beging before he even got a hold of the peral. Kino and his wife were poor and when their son got bitten by a scorpion ,they needed money to pay for the doctor. They found the pearl and that pearl has made kino do things he would have never done before. He hit is wife one time becuase the peral was his only important thing he cared about and he didnt want anybody to take that thing away from him.

My Folktale

  My father and mother where watching T.V out in the living room. I got really bored & went to go ask my brother something.When I opened the door I caught him starting to crawl out the window, I ask him "where are you going?", he turns around to look at me & says "to a party, mom & dad said no but Im going anyway.Im going now but you have to promiseyou won't tell them." I would never lie to mom and dad but I guess covering for my brother won't hurt me , so I just said"ok" then walked out. He didn't come back until in the morning and when he did he came in my room and said "Thanks,for covering for me , I owe you one."  The next day he told me he was going out again & to please cover for him , i just walked away & said "sure". Mom had come home & was calling for my brother, I went downstairs & told her that he was feeling so good, so he went to sleep early. Neither my mom or dad asked me anymore questions about him for the rest of the night. My brother had been going out more often and I had to cover for him all the time. On friday night I was doing my homework , when I hear my brother calling for me. He tells me his going to go out again and that to pleases cover for him & I just say "you have to stop going out so often , im running out of stuff the say to mom & dad". Later on that day mom & dad come upstaris to check on me and they ask " where is your brother ? when we went to go check on him he wasn't there." I make up one of the stupidest lies and my dad goes out looking for him . When my dad comes back he says "your lieing to us young lady! How long have you been covering for him?" I just couldn't hold it anymore and I tell them everything , when I am all done they both look at eachother and tell me"I thought we thought you better than to lie to us". In that instant I feel bad for not telling them the truth. Now they wont have to same trust in me as they did before .