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Who else watches and hears the sights and sounds of night in the country -- the many stirrings of silence

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck MN WALT WHITMAN Cavalry Crossing a"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy.