... human down to an animal level, and he does this with Lennie also. Lennie has the impulse of a killer in him but in a form which is almost innocent (Wilson 529). This plainly shows how something uncontrollable can effect the outcome of one's life. In both The Pearl and The Grapes of Wrath, families must struggle at once against an indifferent natural order and a ... corrupt social order (Millichap 3160), these being outside forces in which none of the characters have the ability to change. The aspirations of Kino, the head of the family in The Pearl, are the same drives to better himself ...

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