The Boy Who Never Lied

        There was once a boy named Ben who lived in a small town called Coldgrove. Apparently he has never lied to anyone. But these two boys really wanted to make him lie. So one day after school the two boys told him to tell the teacher they won't be at school tomorrow. So he went to the teacher and the teacher asked him whats the problem. He told the teacher that the boys said that they won't be here, but he wasn't sure because he only says what he saw. So he just said they might come and they might not come. The next day before school the boys came to the teacher laughing and told them that Ben lied to her. The teacher said that he did not lie he only said what he could see with his own eyes. Then the two boys realized that he really never lies he is a man of his word and only says what he knows.

The Pearl Theme

In this story by John Steinbeck there is many tones and it is always changing. At the beginning of the story Kino and Juana's baby gets stung by a scorpion and the doctor won't help them because they don't have enough money. Then as the plot progresses Kino finds the pearl. Then all of the sudden everybody listens to Kino and wants to serve him just because he has the pearl. Know the pearl's power is starting to take over Kino and he wants to sell it so they can be rich but Juana says no. So know they go to the doctor and the doctor says he will serve their baby just because he wants the money. So then he doesn't exactly know what to do so he poisons the baby to stop the other poison. Which really isn't a treatment so Kino is kind of mad. I think the theme of this story would be greed and evil, because lots of people of act evil and once Kino everyone in the town becomes greedy of Kino's pearl.