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Soup Rebecca Herrmann Maria Perez Tyler Griswold Jordan Oliva

Here is a photo of some natives and brush houses similar to the ones Kino and his people lived in. -Maria

media type="youtube" key="bViQtoUM444" height="315" width="560" This video contains the different songs from The Pearl. It gives a new sense and understanding and feel to what the actual songs may sound like to Kino throughout the book. These I believe were the best interpretation to what the songs of the book. It also contains almost all the songs from the book. -Maria

First of all, John Steinbeck seems to enjoy writing short novels about two companions who are in the lower class of economic value and always desire to live a happy and economically stable life. For example, in //The Pearl//, Kino and Juana live a fairly meager lifestyle in La Paz, Mexico, where they have always wanted to acquire more success so that their son, Coyotito could live a better life than they had. Also, in //Of Mice and Men,// Lennie and George live their lives moving from ranch to ranch to do jobs requiring menial agricultural labor on farmland, but they aspire to earn a large enough stake to buy land of their own so that they could live fantasy lives without worry or significant stress.
 * Comparisons between John Steinbeck's //The Pearl// and //Of Mice and Men//.**

Secondly, in both novels, Steinbeck shows how people are always looking down at those who don't have much wealth or intelligence to their names. In //The Pearl,// a doctor tries his best to cheat Kino and Juana he best he can when dealing with Coyotito's poisoning by taking advantage of a lack of book smarts and money. In //Of Mice and Men//, George constantly proves that he is much smarter than Lennie by telling him about things that he knows nothing about, but George still cares about the well-being of Lennie because they are companions of each other on an endless journey that spans years.

More will be posted in the near future. Look out for future updates. **-Tyler Clint James Cornelius Leonardo Griswold**.