| John Steinbeck's The Pearl, starts off by | | | | Another event that happened to Kino was that |
| introducing a simple family living by the sea. Kino, | | | | one night he decided to bury the pearl underneath |
| a diver whose skills have been pasted down from | | | | the fire hole in the house, and surprisingly an |
| generation to generation, his young wife Juana, | | | | intruder comes in and there is a fight leading to |
| and his son Coyotito who gets bitten by a | | | | Kino chasing him away. At this point Juana feels |
| scorpion and falls deathly ill. At this point in the | | | | that the pearl is evil and they should get rid of it. |
| story the dilemma truly unfolds. Kino goes out the | | | | The following morning another complication occurs. |
| next day to do some diving, ironically he finds a | | | | Kino and Juana decide to take the pearl into town |
| pearl that seems to be very large and will bring | | | | to sell it to get rid of the bad luck that has come |
| him great wealth, at least that's what he thinks. | | | | with it. All of the dealers knew that Kino was |
| This part of the story is where things get a little | | | | coming and all bid low on the pearl. Kino then |
| twisted. That morning the doctor was supposed | | | | decides to take that pearl home and then return |
| to come over and take a look at Coyotito, | | | | the next day to sell it at the capital. The next |
| instead he did not come. Then when Kino finds | | | | hardship that the pearl brought them was when |
| the pearl the doctor is at his aid very quickly and | | | | Kino is attack by vandals. The turnout leaves Kino |
| administers a potion to Coyotito that is supposed | | | | killing a man over the pearl and having to hide out |
| to help him with his spasms. Moreover, I feel this | | | | at his brother Juan Thomas's house because he |
| is the very first conflict in the story and the first | | | | was afraid of being labeled a murderer. |
| sign of greed that came with the pearl. Why is it | | | | Furthermore, Kino, Juana, and Coyotito all set off |
| that the doctor did not come that morning? | | | | on a trail. Kino then notices that he is being |
| Secondly, why is it that as soon Kino finds the | | | | traced, so at night Kino decides to attack one of |
| pearl, the doctor is there in a couple of minutes | | | | the men, which wakes up another one that has a |
| with a cure, and then non-chalantally asks about | | | | gun and he fires and kills Kino's son, Coyotito. |
| payment. | | | | |