Reflection on 'The Pearl'

The very first page of this book has the phase that says: "If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from...". It means that every different person takes the story different and everyone learns different lessons from the story. In my cases, I think that the lesson of this story is that 'It doesn't mean that your happy if you have money.' In this story, Kino's family is normal family or a person. On the other hand, the pearl symbolize the money and the pearl buyers are the society. So if you have a huge amount of money you most likely to be the target.