Subject: Itôs a story about good luck and bad luck in a poor fishermanôs life. The setting of the story is located in the southernmost part of California , in Mexico , near the town La Paz.
It is the story of a fisherman who found a pearl beyond price , the Pearl of the World. With the pearl, he hoped to buy peace and happiness for himself, his wife and their little son. Instead he found that peace and happiness are not to be purchased. They are, themselves, pearls beyond price.
The most important persons: Kino: a young fisherman and pearl diver, very poor, wanted to give his wife and child new clothes, good food, a new house etc. So he had to find a big pearl, a giant pearl. He had to find it soon.
He was strong and his black hair hung over his brown forehead.
Kino people arriving
English: Bahía Kino. Isla Alcatraz and Kino Nuevo...
Ocean PearlHis eyes were warm and fierce and bright and his moustache was thin and coarse.
Juana: Kinoôs young wife.She had dark eyes and she was always looking at him when he awakened. She was a patient, fragile wife- but Kino often wondered at the iron will in his fragile wife. She was obedient, respectful, cheerful and patient, she could arch her back in child pain with hardly a cry. She could stand fatigue and hunger almost better than Kino himself. In the canoe she was like a strong man.
She always took Coyotito out of his hanging box and cleaned him and hammocked him in her shawl in a loop that placed him close to her breast. She sang softly an ancient song that had only three notes though endless variety of interval.
Coyotito: their baby -son , slept in a hanging box , was stung by a scorpion...