The Pearl

Why is the Song of the Family so fierce upon Kino and Juana’s return to La Paz?

The Pearl chapter 6

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Steinbeck constructs Kino's return to La Paz as an event that brings Kino back to the family-centered ideals with which he began the story, but his recollection of the Song of the Family has a significant undercurrent of defiance and anger. His family has been destroyed, yet he clings to that ideal, for it is all that remains for him.

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