"The Pearl" Final Chapters

As a wounded Kino, and heart broken Juana stumble back to their village, Juana carries her shawl holding the remains of Coyotito. Just to think, all of that work and effort they put into keeping and selling this pearl. It was all for nothing. One of the main reasons Kino wanted to keep it was so Coyotito could go to school. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen, now does it? Well, that's what Kino gets for being as greedy and selfish as he was. He killed a man, his house burned down, his canoe broke, and was willing to put his family on the line for a stupid pearl. If that's not determination, I don't what is.

The whole lesson through out this book, was that, the pearl of the world is actually evil. Who would would have thought that something as glorious as a pearl, could cause so much damage. I certainly never thought it would. Kino should have either taken the rigged deal for the pearl, or better yet, listened to Juana. Juana was right from the begging, wanting to get rid of the evil pearl, sometimes, it seemed as though Kino respected the pearl, more than Juana.

Everything is gone, everything. All of those things they worked for are ruined now. The great pearl, the one that everybody wanted. It has destroyed everything Kino and Juana loved. All because of a little scorpion bite. This much destruction has come. Stupid scorpion.