Reading 04/25/2011 Summary The Pearl Chapter 6

Summary:

Kino, Juana and their son begin their long march north. They walk all the night and Kino try to hide their traces. They are afraid somebody can follow them. They stop on the roadside just before the sunrise, to sleep a little. They stay there until midday, Kino was sleeping when he wake up suddenly with a bad dream. He felt something bad. He asks to Juana to not move and he goes to check there are trackers. In fact, he saw 3 trackers on their way and one with a horse. They decide to change direction to lose them in the mountain. Finally, trackers stop just near Kino and his family, two of them are sleeping, Kino wants to kill the last one, for him it is their last chance to survive. But it is too late, the moon is already here. Coyotito cry, trackers though maybe it is a coyote, so to check that tracker take is gun and shoot on the direction of the cry and kill Coyotito. Kino is full of rage and kills them. Juana and Kino return to their village, Coyotito is on the back of Juana, but died. All the village understands and don’t move. They take the direction of the ocean and throw away this pearl and the music of the pearl disappear.

Vocabularies:

To gurgle :  to make a sound as of water doing this (often used of birdsor of human beings).

To struggle : to make (one's way) with violent effort.

Hibiscus : Kind of tree

Questions : 

Where do they stop to rest ?

How many trackers follow them?

Why trackers kill Coyotito ?

Interesting sentence:

"He looked into his pearl to find his vision. "When we sell it at least, I will have a rifle," he said, and he looked into the shinning surface for his rifle, but he saw only a huddled darf body on the ground with shinning blood dripping from his throat. and he said quickly " we will be married int he great church." And in the pearl he saw Juana with her beaten face crawling home through the night. "Our son must learn to read," he said frantically."

On this passage, we can see the determination of Kino. He becomes afraid but he doesn't want to scare Juana. He doesn't want to accept their actual issues and wants to believe in their dreams.