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Kino has many suspicions of the doctors so called “treatment” of his baby son Coyotito. Kino is uneducated and does not know what to think about the circumstances of his sons illness and treatments from the doctor. Kino has many dreams for himself and his family. One main dream of Kino is to be able to send his son to school to be educated. Kino feels like the doctor has swindled him and has poisoned his son just to come back to cure Coyotito allement that he has caused. Kino never want his son to be swindled of used or used by anyone. Kino says in the book “I will send him to school, and he will read and open great books.”. Kinos hopes of his sons education fires up even moreso when he travels into

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