约翰·斯坦贝克的《珍珠》是一部关于一位贫穷的年轻潜水员基诺的小说，他发现了一颗具有非凡美丽和价值的珍珠。基诺几乎不相信自己的运气，他相信珍珠会给他的家庭带来财富，实现他对更美好未来的梦想。但正如那句老话所说，小心你的愿望。最后，珍珠号给基诺和他的家人带来了悲剧。

这里引用了《珍珠号》中的一些话，说明了基诺不断增长的希望、过度的野心，以及最终的毁灭性贪婪。

珍珠引文分析

And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between. If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.

在开场白中，这句话揭示了珍珠的情节并非完全是斯坦贝克的原创。事实上，这是一个经常被讲述的已知故事，也许像民间传说。和大多数寓言一样，这个故事也有寓意。

When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction—and that was conversation.

从第一章开始，这些词将主角基诺和胡安娜的生活方式描绘成一种没有装饰、安静的生活方式。这一场景描述了基诺在发现珍珠之前的简单和健康。

But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods both.

基诺在第二章潜水寻找珍珠。寻找珍珠的行为代表了这样一种观念，即生活中的事件实际上不是由人决定的，而是机会或更高的力量。

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

基诺的邻居在第三章中所说的这些不祥的话预示着珍珠的发现会给未来带来麻烦。

For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he had said, 'I will go,' and that made a real thing too. To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there.

与前面引用的对神和机遇的尊重不同，第四章的这段引用展示了基诺现在是如何，或者至少是试图完全控制自己的未来的。这就提出了一个问题：是机遇还是自我代理决定了一个人的生活？

This pearl has become my soul... If I give it up, I shall lose my soul.

基诺在第五章说了这些话，揭示了他是如何被珍珠和它所代表的物质性和贪婪所吞噬的。

And then Kino's brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound—the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death.

第六章中的这句话描述了这本书的高潮，揭示了珍珠为基诺和他的家人所做的一切。

And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared.

基诺终于逃脱了珍珠的诱惑，但他需要做什么才能改变呢？