The doctor offers to keep the pearl for Kino, and Kino refuses the request, but the doctor tricks Kino into revealing where Kino has hidden the pearl. When the doctor asks Kino for payment, Kino says that his plan is to sell the pearl the next day. Coyotito indeed does get sick, and the doctor returns and gives the baby a different medicine that 'cures' the baby. The doctor visits Kino and Juana and tricks them into allowing him to treat Coyotito even though Kino knows that Coyotito is already cured in fact what the doctor has done is to make Coyotito sick so that the doctor can then cure the baby and get paid more. The priest arrives at Kino and Juana's hut and tells Kino that he needs to give thanks for finding the pearl. Everyone fantasizes what he or she would do with the wealth that the pearl represents, including the doctor, who previously refused to help Coyotito but now says that the baby is a patient of his.

Kino is immensely happy about both the pearl and Coyotito and yells loudly enough that he attracts the attention of the other oyster divers, who race toward his canoe.īefore Kino reaches home with his great pearl, the news of his discovery has already reached his village and the town. Juana gazes at the immense pearl she then goes to check on Coyotito and discovers that Coyotito's shoulder is no longer swollen. Kino does not want to open the oyster immediately, but Juana prompts him to open the oyster when he does, he finds a pearl the size of a sea gull's egg. As Kino is collecting oysters on the ocean bottom, he spots a larger-than-usual oyster, collects it, and returns to the canoe. Kino goes to work diving in the Gulf for oysters from his canoe Juana tends to Coyotito in the canoe by applying brown seaweed to his shoulder, which is swollen from the scorpion's bite. At the doctor's house, the doctor's servant tells Kino and Juana that the doctor is not at home - in truth, the doctor is home but will not help Coyotito because Kino cannot pay the doctor as much as the doctor wants, but also because the doctor is prejudiced against Kino's race. Kino accompanies Juana, and many members of the village follow them to see what will happen. Juana tells Kino to go to town and get the doctor, but Kino and their neighbors tell Juana that the doctor will never come to where they live, so Juana decides to take matters into her own hands and sets off with Coyotito to the doctor. Their lives seem rather peaceful, but their tranquility is threatened when a scorpion bites Coyotito. Kino, the novella's protagonist, is a young Mexican-Indian pearl diver married to Juana they have a baby named Coyotito.

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