Summary of the pearl
Kino and Juana leave their bed to make breakfast. Kino starts looking at the waves and the ocean and turns around to find a scorpion on the rope holding up Coyotito's box. When Coyotito, the son of Kino and Juana, seea the scorpion and reaches for it, shaking the box at the same time. The scorpion falls and stings Coyotito on the shoulder. Kino grabs the scorpion and smashes it, but it was too late. Coyotito is already crying and the poison is already crawling through his body. They go to the doctor for help but only get rejected by him because he does not have the money to pay the doctor when he is done. The couple goes out in hope of finding a pearl to convince the doctor to heal Coyotito. Kino finds a big pearl and opens it to reveal the largest pearl anyone has seen. The doctor then comes to heal Coyotito because he might not be healed all the way. He then asks if Kino would like him to keep it in his safe. Kino declinesdoctor tells that it might be stolen. Kino quickly glances toward the buried pearl. Later that night Kino hears intruders and gets badly bruised by them. Someone attacks Kino and he doesn't see who he is. Kino then makes palns to go to the capital in the morning to get a better offer on his pearl. That dawn, he hears Juana walking in the house and he chases after her. He catches up to her and hits her and beats her. Kino then runs up the hill only to be cut and scraped by attackers. In self-defense, he kills a man. Juana and Kino run from the authorities. In the process, their house gets burned down and they stay in Kino's brother's house. In the morning, the couple leaves on a journey north where they think no one will find them. The trackers almost find them and they flee up a mountain. They take refuge in a cave next to where the trackers set up camp. They hear a cry and one of the trackers shoots Coyotito in the head without knowing it. Kino, also not knowing, springs from hs hiding place and kills the trackers. Kino and Juana walk home and thro the pearl back into the ocean.