The Pearl-ch.6

At night, when everyone else was asleep, Kino, Juana, and Coyotito left the town. While they were traveling, Kino use branches to wipe out their footprints. After a long journey, they rested on the side. Juana was restless while Kino went to sleep, suddenly, they saw trackers following them and tracking down their trail. They remained silent until they left, but Kino knew the trackers will soon find them, so they collect their belonging and continue their journey. When they sit down and take a rest, Kino tell Juana to hide with Coyotito as he moves ahead, but Juana insist the family should not seprate, so they move on together. As their day begin to end, they reach a cleft with pool and stream and they hid in the cave, unfortunately, the trackers arrived at their place and they were planing to spend their nights there too. Kino realizes that they will find them when the sun rise again, and their only way to escape is to attack them from the back, so Kino take out his cloth and sneak behind the awaked tracker (because he has the riffle). Suddenly, Coyotito crys and it wakes one of the sleeping trackers, they wonder is it a human's cry or just a coyote. So the tracker decide to stop the cry by shooting towards the direction of the cry, when the bullet was shoot, Kino jump out and grab the riffle, then, he killed the three men. But the bullet shot Coyotito and it killed him. The next day, Kino and Juana went back to their town, everyone else gather around them excitingly, but there was no joy on their face, instead, there was great sorrow upon it. Juana hold the body of Coyotito as Kino raise his hand and throw the pearl back to the ocean.

Like what Juana had worried, that pearl did bring tragedy to their family, but it is not the pearl itself, is the jealous and covetousness of others that create all these saddness. Not just Kino's family who exprience these things, but also those who are seeking for this pearl, such as the three trackers and the one guy who attack Kino in their town, they all die. I will just say, they deserve it, but how about Coyotito? He is innocent, he didn't seek anything good from the pearl. But he still dies as a sacrifice for others' covetousness and Kino's foolishness. Maybe it is only until this time that Kino understood how rich he actually was, but there is nothing he can do, for the riches of the pearl can't buy Coyotito's life back. Connect this to our life right now, maybe we have riches beyond our own imagination, but our covetousness blinded our eyes so we can only see things that we want. For a human's wants can never be satisfy, and often time, the searching for greater riches will only lead us to destruction.