![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coyotito is not even old enough to talk yet, but even though he doesn’t actually do much in a way he’s Juana and Kino’s biggest motivation. ![]() There are really only three major characters in the book- Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. She wants to dispose of it but Kino makes it clear that he has no intention of letting that happen. Unsurprisingly, things soon go horribly wrong and Juana starts believing that the pearl is cursed. Kino sees the pearl as a way to have a better life and pay for an education for Coyotito, his son. In what seems at first like a stroke of miraculous fortune, Kino finds an enormous pearl that he believes he can make a lot of money off of. I didn’t feel like the main characters were as well-defined as George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men, and it was pretty hard to care about Kino, the main character he was an unsympathetic brute who treated his wife like shit.Īt the beginning of the book, Kino and his wife Juana’s infant son gets stung by a scorpion and Kino goes hunting for pearls that he can sell in order to pay for the baby’s medical care. Out of the three books I’ve read by this author, this was the one I felt most apathetic towards. In fact, I find myself wondering if John Steinbeck ever wrote anything remotely upbeat. My mom warned me that it was ‘miserable,’ and she’s right it isn’t exactly a happy tale. I was hesitant to write a review for this book because I didn’t think I had that much to say about it. ![]()
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