This book is about Kino,the fishermen.Kino and his wife, Juana live in a poor fishing village along with their baby,Coyotito.One day,Coyotito is bitten by a scorpion and get sick.Kino go to the doctor but the doctor,an Englishmen refuse to treat his child.Kino give him all the little pearl that he has but the answer are same .Desperate for money,he go to the sea to dive to search the pearl.Luckily,he got the large pearl ever seen by his villager. Once he get the pearl, his life changed.Now,he is respected by everyone in his village.Even the doctor who once humiliated him came to his house to treat his son.Kino knows the villager become nice with him because of the pearl.He become suspicious with everyone.The next day,he try to sell the pearl,but unfortunately the pearl buyer try to cheat him.Kino is angered and decide to leave his village with his family to town to find a honest pearl buyer. Along his journey to town, he was attacked by the trail tracker that intends to kill him and rob his pearl.He forced to kill them and unfortunately his child,Coyotito were killed by them.Now,he feel the pearl had brought many misfortune to them and he throw it to the sea
Author: Michael Gerald
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