THE EXPLOITATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN SEEN IN THE PEARL BY JOHN STEINBECK

Abstract

This thesis discusses about the exploitation of American Indian pictured in The Pearl by John
Steinbeck. In attaining the purpose, writer applied Marxism literary criticism by Karl Marx
which emphasizes on issues in socioeconomic and historical approaches is applied to connect
the relationship of the work on history. Moreover, the writer applies close reading technique
and descriptive method to analyze and understand the novel. From the analysis, the writer
found the exploitation toward American Indian is caused by the white in socioeconomic. The
impacts of the exploitation on American Indian are they become poor and uneducated

Keywords: exploitation, American Indian, socioeconomic, impact