Wednesday, May 7, 2014

May 7 class notes for The Pearl

Kino, Juana, and Coyotito

Coyotito got bitten by a scorpion 
Kino had to go to the doctor. doctor refuses to see Coyotito because they are poor indians.
Family tries to go find pearls to pay for doctor 
Kino finds giant pearl the size of a gull's egg.
The poison in Coyotito's shoulder oozes out.
Neighbors gather around Kino as he comes to shore with the pearl.
Kino starts to think of all of the stuff he wants to buy.
Doctor comes to hut to cheat Kino out of the money.
The doctor gives Coyotito emetic.
Doctor is thinking he will making a lot of money.
Doctor needs to look like he is needed.
Kino punches door of doctors house.
Kino could have easily killed the doctor just as easy as if he had talked to him.
 Kino's family is gullible because they are poor and ignorant.
Doctor is a walking diabetic creature.
Doctor reads by Kinos body language that the pearl is hidden in Kino's house.
Juana tells Kino the pearl is a sin she also said it will destroy them.
Sin: doing somthing bad that is against your religion.
Greed and envy is the kind of sin that the pearl has brought.
 Doctor is a example of gulttony 
WRATH ....
is blinding anger.
Kino puches fence and beats the scorpion to death.
"My son WILL go to school" say Kino 
"as Kino lifted the flesh there lay the pearl, perfect as the moon."
"Luck brings bitter friends."
The priest was first to show up to Kino's hut/house.
"For it is said that humans are never satisfied."
  But that is our GENIUS...

 
 
 
 

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