pearl reflection

“If this story was a parable”.... This statement from the introduction got to me before I started the story. I was kind of looking through the book, and that statement in the beginning of the book pulled me in before the story. It had me going thinking. What would we learn from the story that makes this story a good parable? I’ve been thinking about that question as I’ve been reading the story.
The first part of the story was similar to the other common short stories. The main character and his family is poor, but they’re having a good life. They get mistreated, but there is always people somewhere to cheer him up. And one day, they discover something really good. I could relate myself to the story, because whenever I’m facing trouble, people are always there to help me cheer up and go through the hardships. And there follows something so good that I’ve never expected, which seems perfect for a while.
The huge pearl that Kino found can be reflected as a good happening in a person’s life. They seem so good and perfect the moment we discover and interact with it, but its side-affects comes rampaging towards you in a blink of an eye. When Kino found the pearl and the news became the hot issue of the town, it seemed like every goods were coming to him. The auction held didn’t satisfy him, because of his greed. If he let go of the pearl at that time, it wouldn’t have caused more bad things to him. But he kept holding on to the pearl, until he became attached to it that he said that the pearl is part of him. He couldn’t throw the pearl away when someone tried to steal it, when his house was burned down, and when his canoe was destroyed. And finally, the pearl causes his loved one’s death, ended up Coyotito being killed.
As people live throughout their life, they come across hardships often, and when they come across something really valuable, it seems like they’re trying to compensate all the hardships that they went through. They keep seeking for more values which seems impossible to satisfy, which finally causes failure. People could’ve been satisfied and be not greedy, but their greed ends up making them can’t stop and think they can get more than what they have, so they seek for more and more. It’s like how gamblers be addicted to gambling. They seek more money and more fortune, so they risk more money toward the pot, and they end up losing their money, not even able to get back what they started with.
We, as people should learn not to be too greedy, because a little greed might be a good motivation in my opinion, but too much of those can result in a destruction of their lives.