Saturday, June 9, 2012

Blog Entry 11: Ugly Draft

 THE PEARL AND ITS EVIL POWER: FROM A FATHER FIGURE TO BEING LOST INTO THE "INNOCENCE AND DESTROYER " OF GREED


 INTRO, EVERYTHING I WILL WRITE ABOUT=
 (Steinbeck 0 )“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl, how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere. They say in the town that. . . .” I will be using Pearson's Heroic Archetypes to help me understand Kino, the main character. I will also be using Freud to describe some of the symbolizing used in the book and Kino's Monomyth on his quest to a perfect life and to find him again after being lost in the world of lust, danger  and on the way of finding riches. I am thinking that Kinos goes thru a few archetypes as the book continues, he goes from a humble hard working loving father and husband (JUNG ARCHETYPES, THE FATHER FIGURE) to a selfish man full of  greed, conflict, and violence, who puts his family in situations to satisfy his own ego, he becomes a (Ego Maniac, Collective Unconscious) (Innocent and destroyer) he finds himself not knowing who he is, he tries to find his way back to become who he was before but fails due to his ego,  to have the perfect life.



INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHUR AND WHO HE IS=

The author of this book is John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California and came from a family of moderate means. Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems but behind his books are great stories full of meanings.His first novel was called Cup of Gold and was writing in 1929. John Steinbeck wrote a total of 27 novels and received a total of 17 awards and honors. Although opinions vary on how to describe the man, John Steinbeck is one of America's most beloved and honored writers. In 1963 he becomes an honorary consultant in American Literature to the Library of Congress and is presented the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. On December of 1968 John Dies of arteriosclerosis in New York City.


(KINO) AS THE MAIN CHARACTER=


Kinos characters goes thru many stages of denial and of archetypes. I believe the book starts off by using Jung archetypes of Kino being the father figure but then changes to a Pearson's Innocent Archetype by finding an empty happiness where there is evil.I will be using the one of Carol S. Pearson's Archetypes, which is the (innocent) to describe Kino. I will also use the help of the Heroic Myth Test to see if i can understand better each of the characters of the book. I will talk about many of the symbolizing (Freud) that is used in the book and how they created a certain theme for the book, i believe the "Pearl" is the biggest symbolizing there because that is what the books mood focuses on and if it wasn't for the pearl nothing would happen to Kino and his humble family. I will also use Campbell's quest to describe the family's journey and survival.

There is a big difference between Juana and Kino, both of these characters symbolize a different state of mind when it comes to there "dream". Kino's ambition drives himself into a selfish world full of violence and greed where he faces two personalities (TWO FACE), even at a point on the book (Steinbeck 56 ) "has Kino gone mad?? He is talking to the pearl!! He stares at the pearl to look for answer and to see his future. He is left with clearly nothing but a dream full of emptiness and  regret, for he is not who he was before.(Steinbeck 71) Kino lies to Juana about what he sees in there future  "We will be married in a great church" a marriage in a church, and an education for Coyotito. In truth Kino sees a body bleeding on the ground, Juana making her way home through the night after being beaten, and Coyotito’s face swollen as though he were sick. Juana (Kino's wife) is one of the characters that sees the truth behind the "pearl", she realizes and makes kino understand that the pearl is just an illusion and if they continue, they will be rob or even die.

FREUD ALL FOUND SYMBOLIZING IN THE BOOK=
In the book The Pearl we see alot of symbolizing that is being used where the narrator tells Kino’s story to teach a moral lesson . The Pearl is the biggest symbol that awakens greed into the life of a humble hard working couple (Kino,Juana) the pearl can be seen as a symbol of greed, richness, change, evil, a "dream". You can see how an how a "object" can destroy the life of a family. The songs that Kino hears are also great symbolizing because we can tell in what type of situation he is in depending on the mood or songs that are played in his head. He hears a particular song always that corresponds to the feeling he is in. When he is happy with his family in  he hears the (Steinbeck 2) "in Kino's head there was a song now, clear and soft, he called it Song of the Family. When he senses danger, dishonesty, greed by other, violence he hears the Song of Evil.These songs point to the oral nature of Kino’s cultural tradition that were passed on from generation to generation. We can see how the songs compares from the begging of the book to the end where (Steinbeck 73) the songs changes "the music of the pearl had become sinister in his ears, and it was interwoven with the music of evil". The sea gives life to this book, water, movement, life, new beggining (it all starts at the sea where Kino and his ancestor have been for years and it all ends there, (Steinbeck 88) where they put Coyotito’s corpse.


THE PHASES THAT KINO AND HIS FAMILY GO THRU (MONOMYTH) (QUEST TO FIND HIMSELF)= (call for adventure, threshold, quest, return home)
The call for adventure all started once the pearl was found, "the doctor." refuses to help Kino's family due his stereotypes toward the native people. He states that he is not a veterinarian, thus, referring to Kino's family as animals. His interest in the family only occurs after he hears of Kino's find of "The Pearl of the World", Kino hates this and due to this comment he feels a certain type of way, where he must give his family a better life and his son a better education.

We can see how the whole book is based on rush of Monomyths.The rush he must faces everyday to sell the pearl and find the perfect home for his family becomes full of danger for himself and his family. His call for adventure starts as soon as that pearl is in his hand.
The ending of this book was very interesting because it had a very twisted end where Kino's quest was not completed. Kino's physical and emotional life was changed forever because of a material object such as a "pearl". His quest of finding who he was left in the limbo. Everything that he once loved and was not afraid of became his biggest fear. 

-Call to Adventure
-The threshold
-The belly of the whale (revelation)
-Transformation
-Return home


 WHAT THEY THOUGHT THE PEARL WOULD BRING TO THEM AND WHAT IT REALLY BOUGHT=


"One day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as perfect as the moon. with the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security......" So wrong passed the threshold everything is full of problems, violence, death, neglect and greed.

(PEARSON HEROIC ARCHETYPES) THAT KINO PHASES AND DESCRIBE ALL OF THEM=
There are three main characters that show three different Jung Archetypes. In Kino we see the
the father figure which brings authority, stern, love and power to the this book. We see how his character shows and brings out more than one of the archetypes and are describe as the book flows. They start to change as the mono-myth of the book progresses and details, actions change.
 This are the shadow sides of the archetypes in which the character of Kino changes to, (Pearson, Carol. Awakening the Heroes WithinTwelve Archetypes to help us Find Ourselves and Transform the World) Innocent: Evidenced in a capacity for denial so that you do not let yourself know what is really going on. You maybe hurting yourself and others, but you will not acknowledge it. you may also be hurt, but you will repress that knowledge as well. Or, you believe what other say even when their perspective is directly counter to your own inner knowing. He becomes un aware of the damge that he is doing to his family and everyone around him. He puts him self in a selfish situation where he puts himself as the victim.(Pearson, Carol. Awakening the Heroes WithinTwelve Archetypes to help us Find Ourselves and Transform the World) Destroyer:  Includes all self destructive behaviors, addictions, compulsions or activities that undermine intimacy, career, success or self-esteem and all behaviors such as emotional or physical abuse, murder, rape that have destructive effects on others. Kino finds himselve doing harm to other in order to survive, he even kills a man (Steinbeck 85) " Kino moves quietly and then murders him execution-style". His simple existence becomes increasingly complicated by greed, conflict, and violence.


The hero: Champion; defender; rescuer.

The mother (Juana): Nurturing; comforting
The child (Coyotito): Longing for innocence; rebirth; salvation.

Tests they must phase: 

The Trackers - A group of bounty hunters who track down Kino, Coyotito, and Juana in an attempt to steal the pearl.



 FREUD (SYMBOLISM)
JUNG (ARCHETYPES)
CAMPBELL (MONOMYTH)
PEARSON (HEROIC ARCHETYPES)

The book starts of by using Jung Archetypes to describe the main three characters, we can see how each othem represent the


After of there quest, there attempt to a better life became a failure as Coyotito is killed. Tho there quest did not follow the regular monomyth because there were not trying to return home. They just found themselfs on the quest of saving there life's and not being killed by the trackers.




WORK CITED 


-Pearson (Archetypes-date-year)

-Freud(Anima-Animus,shadow-date-year)

-Campell(Hero´s quest, Monotmyth-Date)

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype

- John Steinbeck, The pearl (year)


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