Independent reading
THE PEARL
2022.3.9 – chapter 1
Kino and his wife Juana had a son, Coyotito, with meager subsistence. They don’t have money to go to the doctor, and the doctor refuses to cure insects for “little Indians,” and he says, “I’m a doctor, not a veterinary.”
2022.3.11 – chapter 2
Kino and his family went to the beach; they pulled up an oyster that had the “pearl of the world,” a beautiful and the greatest pearl.
chapter 3
Kino wants to use this pearl to get a better life for his family, but everyone in the town covets the pearl. Juana thinks the pearl is evil and wants to throw it away. But Kino knew that it would be the only chance to become wealthy, for his child to go to school, to have enough food, etc.