The pearl (summary of the book) kitap özeti kısa içerik
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A Mexican Indian pearl diver named Kino awakens to the sound of crowing roosters. He lives near the village of La Paz around 1900. He watches the day dawning through the crack of the door to his house, which is made of brush bundles. Then he looks to a makeshift cradle, a kind of box hanging from the roof of the hut, where his infant son, Coyotito, sleeps. Kino turns and he gazes to the open eyes of his wife, Juana. She looks back at Kino as she always does in the early morning. Kino closes his eyes again to listen to the sound of an old song in his head. As they eat their simple breakfast, Kino recognizes a scorpion on the hanging box where his infant son sleeps in. Terrified, Juana recites a charm and a prayer to protect Coyotito, while Kino moves forward to capture the scorpion. Coyotito look the scorpion on the rope, laughs, and reaches up to grab it. Kino freezes, slowly stretching out his hand toward the scorpion. When Coyotito shakes the rope of the hanging box, the scorpion falls, lands on his shoulder, and stings him. Kino immediately seizes and crushes it in his palm of the hand. Kino’s retribution does no good and Coyotito screams with pain.Juana grabs Coyotito at once and she starts to suck on his wound. The child’s wailing summons several neighbours to Kino’s doorstep, including Kino’s brother, Juan Tomás, and Juan Tomás’s wife, Apolonia. As Coyotito’s cries diminish into moans, Juana asks Kino to summon the doctor. Such a request surprises the neighbours because the doctor has never visited the poor cluster of brush houses. Because the doctor belongs to the social class of the spanish colonist of the region.When Kino expresses doubt that the doctor will come to Coyotito, Juana suggests to take Coyotito to the doctor. Kino and Juana set out for the center of town, their neighbours trailing behind them. Near the center of town, when they arrives at the doctor’s house, Kino knocks at the gate. Presently, the gate opens to reveal one of Kino’s own people, employed in the doctor’s service. Kino explains the details of Coyotito’s injury , the man ignores Kino. He tells Kino to wait while he goes to speak with the doctor. Indoors, the doctor sits up in bed. He eats on biscuits and drinks hot chocolate and thinks nostalgically of Paris. When the servant interrupts the doctor’s reverie to announce Kino’s visit, the doctor bitterly demands to know if Kino has money to pay for the treatment. Kino gives the servant eight small pearls, but soon the servant returns to Kino with them, explaining that the doctor has been called out to attend to a serious case. Kino is furious and ashamed. He strikes with his fist with anger to the wall. Blue and white canoes set of on the coast. Crabs and lobsters poke out from their holes, and algae and sea horses drift aimlessly in the nearby currents. Dogs and pigs scavenge the shoreline for sea drift in the hazy morning. Kino and Juana walk down the beach to Kino’s canoe. They are going to search for pearls, desperately hoping to find a valuable pearl to pay Money to doctor for poisoned coyotito. Kino lays his blanket in its bow. Juana rests Coyotito upon the blanket and places her shawl over him to protect him from the sun. She wades into the water and collects some seaweed, which she applies gently to Coyotito’s wound. Kino and Juana slide the canoe into the water, Juana climbs in, and Kino pushes the boat away from shore. Once Kino boards, the two begin paddling out to sea in search of pearls. In a short time, they come upon other canoes, which have clustered around the nearest oyster bed. Kino makes a dive to collect oysters, while Juana stays in the canoe, praying for luck. He stays under water for over two minutes, gathering the largest shells, including one especially enormous oyster that has a “ghostly gleam.” Climbing back into the canoe, Kino is reluctant to examine the largest oyster first.
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