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The Pearl
Kino lives in a brush house with his wife Juana and his
little son
Coyotito, in La Paz. They were poor Indians, and Kino has
work
like his father and grandfather before him , they worked
as pearl divers on oysters.
One day a scorpion stings Coyotito. They go to the doctor
in town
but the doctor refuses to examine the baby because Kino
can't pay the
bill. Maybe he can pay the doctor with pearls !
Kino sails out with his canoe and dives in the sea for
oysters that hold
pearls. He has to rip open the oysters with force that
might contain a
pearl.
After hours he finds the big one.
When the doctor finds out that Kino has the pearl he
rushes to Kino's
house to offer his service to Coyotito. Kino says he 'll pay
after he sold the pearl.
So , he goes to the pearl buyers' offices. They say that the
pearl isn't worth much.
Kino is very upset and he thinks they are cheating
him. Later a few people tried to steal the pearl.
Kino says to Juana, "we have nothing to lose but our
lives," because their
house was burned out and Kino has killed a man, they go
into the mountains.
But 3 trackers are following the family, and overtake
the family and one
of the trackers kills Coyotito.
In the end , Kino looks at the pearl and sees it as
something evil.
Kino's hand shook a little, and he turned slowly to Juana
and held the
pearl out to her. She stood beside him, still holding her
dead bundle
over her shoulder, she looked into Kino's eyes and said
softly, No, you.
Kino flings the pearl back into the sea, And the pearl lay
on the floor of
the sea, the pearl was gone under of sand.
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