This is an extremely fun one because not only is the book very infuriating / traumatising, but I also got doubly infuriated by the analysis of the book, because WHAT are they saying are the themes of the book??? What do you mean he lived a happy and simple life before everything? He lived as the dirt at the bottom of the society before everything okay, well in fact he was not IN the society where it counts, he did not exist in the eyes of the white people, none of them natives did, and it is Intentionally Kept that way, they kept them separated to exploit them, and the only way they were integrated into the modern society was through religion, which was to make it EASIER to control them and exploit them some more, I mean.... you cannot tell me that way of living is happy, why don't you go live like that if it's happy??? If he's given a choice, well he WAS given a choice, would he live like that? Well his hopes say he wouldn't. Those rich white people tried very hard to take the choice away from him. I don't blame him for any murdering he did, I mean ... they came to kill him and his family and steal their hope, is it very wrong to kill them in mostly-self-defence? heh. I feel if anything, author was trying to say the pearl can bring evil and misfortune, which he might be doing in the last 20% of the story, but imo, the pearl just brings out more what's wrong with the society / social structure / the crowd, and less what's wrong in this individual who should have been lucky to have the pearl.

Overall, very good observation, and very good for observing the state-of-the-art.