The Pearl, written by John Steinback, is about a native family from La Paz, Mexico. It begins where Kino awakes, hearing the Song of the Family, and looks on to his peaceful wife, Juana. After eating breakfast Kino sees a scorpion on his son Coyotito's cradle. Just as he was going to capture the ...
Kino, Juana, and Coyotito wake up to a very average morning in their brush house. Everything is going fine until a scorpion quietly climbs onto Coyotito's shoulder and stings him. Kino crushes the scorpion, but the baby's shoulder begins to swell as he cries. Juana decides that they will take him to...
The sudden movement was caused by a scorpion that was down the rope that hung the baby's box from the roof. ... Kino stepped up to the box cautiously and slowly, while Coyotito was laughing and reaching to touch the scorpion. The laughing Coyotito shook the rope and the scorpion fell. Kino reached out his hand to try to catch it, but he missed and the scorpion fell on the baby's shoulder, landed and struck his poisonous sting. Kino threw the scorpion on to the floor and started to beat it with his fists. ...
