The Ol' Cookie Jar

This summer I read a book called, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck. I had to annotate the book, which included picking out symbols and themes. I thought the pearl that Kino found in the book was a symbol of temptation. It tempted everyone around it to try and steal it. The pearl also tempted Kino. The cursed pearl tempted him to keep it despite Juana's warnings and the recent bad luck they had run into since it's discovery. The pearl's temptation caused most of the grief and problems in the book. A cookie jar represents the temptation that the pearl has. Little kids are told by their mother's to not spoil their dinner by eating too much, and the cookie jar is always a little tempting.