How The Adventures Of Kino Revealed: A Narrative Fiction

He turned away from her and walked up the beach and through the brush line. His senses were dulled by his emotion. (59). As Kino seeks to gain wealth through the pearl, he transforms from a happy, contented man to a horrible criminal, showing the way ambition and greed destroy innocent people.

After finding the "Pearl of the World," Kino struggles to protect the pearl, himself, and

This intruder made Juanna believe the pearl is evil, and they should get rid of it. Kino ignores this remark, and the next day goes to sell the pearl for money. All the salesmen in town give him low of offers that he rejects. During the night Juanna goes out to throw the pearl in the sea, but Kino chases her down. When Kino gets to her, he grabs the pearl and beats her to a crimple. Kino is walking back to the house when he is jumped by a group of men which he quickly scares off by killing one of them. Juana finds him lying next to the dead man when she quickly decides that they leave because Kino will be labeled as a murder. They are about to leave when they realize their canoe has been trashed, and their house has been set up in flames. With the towns people believing that the whole family has passed in the fire, they hide out in Kino’s brother’s house. After a few day of hiding here, they head for the capital to sell their pearl. The family travels in nightfall to keep from being seen, but to their, surprise they are being followed by three trackers. Kino tries to mislead the trackers, but they catch up and set up camp near by. When Kino goes to attack them, Coyotito starts to cry which wakes up the trackers. One of the trackers fires in direction of Coyotito. Then Kino quickly jumps into action and kills the trackers. When he gets back to his camp, he finds that the shot the tracker took hit and killed his son. Kino and Juana finish their travel the

Third of all it was all put on Kino because in the end his son got shot and ended up dead because there were hunters/trackers looking for Kino and his expensive pearl which he refused to leave behind knowing the harm it would cause in the long run . Plus he was the one who forced Juana and Coyotito to stay uphill and if they went with him then his son would still be alive but no Kino didn't think that was a good idea so there they stayed. The way the baby died was when Kino attacked one of the closest hunters to the ground where they wrestled to the point when the gun went off firing into the hillside sadly killing Coyotito.

Kino was attacked by mean trying to steal the pearl. He killed one of them in self-defense but Juana tells him that does not matter. He will still face consequences from the townspeople once the body is found in the morning.

However, two vibrant changes occur as the story progresses —Coyotito, his son, getting stung by a scorpion and Kino’s discovery of the pearl—broaden Kino’s horizons and outlook on the world. As Kino begins to strive for wealth and education for his son, the simplicity of his life becomes increasingly complicated by greed, conflict, and violence. Kino’s character then falls through a gradual decline from a state of innocence to a state of corruption and disillusionment. The factors promoting this decline are ambition and greed. Thus, when going got tough for Kinoo and he had to escape town he faced a lot of hardships, since he had to go into hiding and the only immediate help he had was from his brother. This had an adverse effect on his personality as he became increasingly negative, given the way he hit his wife shows how the pearl preoccupied his mind to such a great extent that he grew indifferent to everything else as evil and restlessness eloped him. In addition to these social changes, Kinoo, after attaining the pearl was on the move to gain economic sustenance, but not being able to find the right price to sell his pearl got him feeling even more uncertain and disappointed but he continued to strive and was reluctant to give up because he wanted everything in his reach for his son, who he consequently ended up losing in the

Trackers are people that try and find any evidence of runaways or criminals. Kino thinks that they want him and the pearl. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito find a place to stay, but then Kino sees the trackers sitting by the watering hole. When Kino discovered the pearl in the second chapter, he looked into the pearl and saw himself having a rifle. One of the trackers has a rifle, and he wants it.

Coyotito, the baby of Kino and Juana, is poisoned by a scorpion and almost the whole village comes to see what happened. The parents take the baby to the city doctor, who never comes to the brush houses they live in. When Kino and Juana reach the doctor's house, the doctor refuses to treat the baby if the parents don’t have any money. The family goes to the beach to search for a pearl, since Juana had prayed that they find a pearl with which they could hire a doctor to cure Coyotito. Kino dives into the beach search for pearl oysters, while Juana and the baby stay in the coneo. All of the songs that ever existed start to play inside of Kino as he searches through the oysters. His heart skips a beat as the excitement runs through him, when

I thought Kino would head to our house, since his was burned down, but he continued to walk straight through the town, till he got to the beach. He took out the pearl from his

This quote shows the greed in Kino is getting greater and greater. The reader can tell this because Kino is willing to hurt the person who he loves the most, and who loves him the most, just to keep his pearl safe.

He imagined a better life for his family. Despite everything that went wrong, despite people telling him to throw the pearl away, Kino continued to believe in the value and importance of the pearl. Early on Juana tried to convince Kino to get rid of the pearl, “‘This pearl is a sin! It will destroy us,’ and her voice rose shrilly ‘ throw it away.’”(John Steinbeck 38). Kino would have ordinarily taken into consideration his wife’s concerns and this was out of character. While under the spell of the pearl, It didn’t matter to him that Juana had his best interest in mind when she advised him to get rid of the pearl. Even after Kino was attacked, he was unwavering in his conviction in the value of the pearl, “but Kino’s face was set, and his will was set” Kino was given many chances to throw away the pearl, but yet he was stubborn and continued to believe in the pearl even though his world was falling apart and even though he could lose

After traveling long and fighting against the whole world, first with his town filled with people trying to steal it, then fighting for the money, then against himself and finally against the trackers, he was left weak, and there was no more strength to fight anymore. “The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience” (Steinbeck 88). His struggles with the pearl have left him dehumanized and stripped of emotions because after so many battles with himself and others, it has ruined the pearl’s value by taking away the shine and leaving a dusty grey as all of his original plans of a wedding, new clothes and an education for Coyotito have turned into memories of traumatic moments. “And in the surface of the pearl, he saw Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away.” (Steinbeck 89). Family was the strongest part of his life because it was Kino’s only power throughout his life, which is why when he returns back to his village, people don’t recognize him as he walks through people unbothered by their staring eyes that glare right through the hollowed soul, making them feel scared. Whether Kino can’t feel anymore or chooses to disconnect himself from that battle is a mystery, but, he is still left as a dehumanized

While Kino is showing man like behaviors he is loving towards his family and tries his hardest to provide for them. “Then, without warning, he struck the gate a crushing blow with his fist.” (pg. 16) Kino was feeling frustrated and discontent and as a man the only way he knew how to deal with those feelings was to hit the fence. “Then Kino’s fist closed over the pearl and his emotion broke over him. He put back his head and howled.” (pg. 26) Emotion breaks over Kino after he finds the pearl that can help him and his family. To Kino the pearl is the best thing that

After a while, Coyotito had mostly healed and Kino needed some more money so he and Juana and decided to go on his special canoe and go hunt for pearls. His boat was special because it was well taken care of and had lots of coating on the boat. When they went out to sea, Kino dived into the ocean and started to look for good oysters that hadn’t been opened yet. He had collected about a bucket when he spotted a massive oyster that wasn’t with the others. He was very anxious to get to the canoe and open the oyster to see if there was a pearl. When Kino was able to get back on the canoe, he showed Juana the massive oyster and her eyes popped at the size of it. They start to open the pearl and they see this massive pearl in the inside of it. Kino knew this was the pearl of the world that everyone was

In the novella, The Pearl, Kino is faced with many decisions that later impact his life in ways that he could never image. The Pearl tells the tale of a great pearl that could change the life of any man. Kino happened to be this man, but this great pearl caused nothing but havoc and harm to come upon his family. When they were running from all of the trouble the pearl had caused them, Kino’s son died, their hut burned down in the attempt to get away, and Kino had become a man of anger and violence.