The theme in the novel is greed it comes into play after he finds the great pearl where everyone else in the town is trying to get the pearl from him by cheating him, braking into his home, and even attacking him at night. The pearl was slowly destroying his life, it forces him to leave his home to find safety else where and in the end to save his family he throws it back in the ocean to hopefully save his life.
The author made it so a narrator was telling the story which made it feel like you were listening to a childhood story. He also made it so the people that were speaking seemed like they were speaking poor english like people with english as there second or third language which was affective because the story took place in a non english speaking part of the world.
An issue in the book that came up was about the way you spend your money. I thought that this related to adolescence because it describes how you might spend your money after you get your first large amount of money like whether or not you have spent it properly.
To improve on the book i believe the author could have made they end a little happier because it ends with his child dying and him not making any money off the pearl because he throws it back into the ocean to make his life how it use to be.
I would recommend this book to my friends because it is short and it also keeps you wanting to read more because something important happens on each page and it also include a large range of vocabulary that would be useful for a high-school reader.
A fallacy that enhance the novel is that every man that is deserving will get his one chance a good luck. At the beginning you are made to think that it is true when he found the pearl but that luck quickly became bad luck as it slowly destroyed his life. In the book the pearl symbolizes wealth and prosperity and that everyman will do what ever it takes to get, which then after while turns into a symbol of greed and trouble as it leads this mans ordinary life down the drain.
