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.