Family traditions and accepting challenges to this person Susan Lieberman is very important to them. This shows brokenness and greed in Kino’s family. Kino’s tradition has been broken not only physically but also mentally. The greed has turned Kino into a murdered man, a man who killed his past. The canoe was a family tradition that was broken three times . The black figure tried to sneak up on Kino to remove the pearl from Kino’s pockets, while doing so the black figure punches a hole in the canoe. Secondly, Kino hit, kicked, and punched Juana, which showed Kino really is attached to this pearl and that his soul is devoured in it. Kino loved the attention he was getting from the city he loved that people wanted that pearl he had but the
