Meet kino, an wiped out(p) but plucky native who makes a living honkytonk for pearls off the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. He lives with his wife Juana and son Coyotito, who unluckily gets stung by a scorpion within the first 5 pages. Distraught (understatement of the year), Juana c in alls for the doctor, who has very particular requirements for his patients namely, that they have lots of cash. Kino and Juana go to the doctors house anyway, but their operate and poverty work against them. The doctor wont work on Coyotito, so Kino goes pearl-diving in the hopes of hitting the jackpot (i.e., a really, really big pearl). Juana accompanies him on the canoe with their baby. Kino whence stupefys…a really, really big pearl. At the same time, Coyotito miraculously heals himself. This is a good day for the family.
Word travels through township that Kino has hit the mother lode. Dollar signs (or peso signs, more accurately) immediately start running through everyones fountainhead as they all think about how to get in on Kinos new-found wealth.
Kino and Juana are also psyched; Kino dreams of marrying Juana properly in a church, paying for Coyotitos education, and buying a rifle. Then all the freeloaders sorry, well-wishers start arriving to flatter, cajole, and generally make nice with Kino. Meanwhile the doctor has shown up, all apologies for being a racist jerk earlier that morning. He whence proceeds to heal Coyotito, but actually just poisons the pull the leg of and then cures him in the course of a few hours, all with the intention of finding where the pearl is hidden. (Kino buried it under the ground.) later on all of Kinos new friends leave the hut, he and Juana go to sleep. Kino awakens in the middle of the night to find an intruder, well, intruding in his hut and trying to steal the...If you wish to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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