The Pearl Greed

As Kino and his family try to escape, Kino finds out that two men that want to hurt Kino for the pearl are following him. When Kino protect his family, by making Juana and his son hide in the cave. While Juana and Coyotito are hiding in the cave, Kino went out to fight the two men that are harming their family. As Kino was fighting, a bullet went through the cave where Kino’s family was hiding. When Kino went back to see what happened he saw Coyotito body lying they’re on the ground, and he see Juana crying in tears. At that moment Kino remembers the Song of the Pearl drifting away from him as he realizes that the pearl is no long for good but for evil. At the beginning Kino was determined to keep the pearl, because he thought that the pearl …show more content…
The Song of the Pearl starts to become the Song of Evil. The pearl was to bring happiness to Kino and his family, but all that it brought was a death, hatred, and torture to the family. Kino now knows that this was all Kino’s fault that everyone hated him because of the pearl. He knew that if he listened to his wife and threw to pearl back into the Gulf, then none of this would had happen. The pearl had destroyed the family. Kino thought he would be happy and he thought that he would have a good future filled with happiness. All that the future brought to Kino was sadness, and evil. From the beginning all Kino wanted to do was to keep himself and his family safe, but at the end he got the opposite of what he wanted he had evil bought upon himself and his family. The Pearl idealizes family in the story. “Song of the Family” is in the course of The Pearl, is one undying and constant song that suggests that family is the one thing in Kino’s life that perseveres. The Pearl impacts Kino and his relationship with his family. The pearl becomes a part of Kino it becomes his