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.

The Pearl-ch.5

That night, when Kino went to bed, Juana rose up and brought the pearl out, but she didn't realize that Kino was following behind her. Just by the time when Juana was about to throw the pearl back to the ocean, Kino grab the pearl and punched her. After Juana fell to the ground, Kino kicked her on the side as in he was insane, then he turn around and walked away. On his way home, another person jump out of the wood and try to steal the pearl from him. They wrestle and Kino accidentally killed that man. Juana catch up to Kino and picked up the pearl, she walk up to Kino and handed the pearl that he only cares about to him. By this time, they both knew there is a big storm coming, so they decided to leave this place secretly. While Kino went to get his canoe, Juana went home to get Coyotito, but all she see is a house set on fire. Kino ran back to Juana because their canoe has a big hole and they can't use it, and he saw Coyotito in Juana's hand and their house burning into ashes. They hid in Tomas' house while other assume they were dead, they talk about where to go and they decide to travel to the cities of the north. With all their property burned, they have nothing left, nothing except the pearl which now signify his soul.

In the video clip, the lady talked about her family and feminism. Feminism focus on women's rights and seeking of an equality in gender. Her parents stood for feminism, and she grew up listening to these things. This idea of feminsim influence greatly on her belief and life, which also led to her conclusion of three Paradox; rejecting the past and promptly reclaiming it, sobering up about our smallest and maintaining faith for our greatest, and aiming to suceed wildy and being fulfilled by failing very well. She often face hardship and problems that led her to the idea of doing all kind of crazy stuff to reduce her stress and she think low of herself, similar to Juana's situation. As a position of wife in Juana's society, they depend on their husband a lot. They view their husband as "gods" and their thoughts and ambitions as a set of laws or order they have to follow and accomplish. But that lady, talk about her new ideas and stated the second and third paradox, which demonstrate self-confidence, self-esteem, and courage in insisting her own thoughts. Juana, on the other hand, was cautious toward their situation and alerted to the impact of the pearl, yet her humbleness and subservience permit her to only obey Kino to the point that she drag her injured body towards her husband just to return the pearl. The lady in the video end up saying that life is not just about glory, or certainty, or security even!

"It is about Embrace the Paradox.
Act in the face of overwhelm.
Love People really Well."
Because these are what really matters at the end. Juana thought about this but she didn't dare to agrue with her husband, for she didn't know that the glory, certainty, and the security that Kino is seeking from the pearl might bring a big breakdown to everything they originally had.

The Pearl-ch.4

 

"This pearl is like fool's

gold. It is too large. Who

would buy it? There is no

market for such things. It

is a curiousity only,"

(encounter, pg 115)

Kino decided to sell his pearl and when everyone heard this news they quit their job to see what will happen. But when Kino show his pearl to the pearl buyers, they were only willing to offer one thousand pesos for it. Kino felt like he was cheated because this pearl worth at least fifteen times more. So he went to ask other pearl buyers but they either don't want to pay for it or was only willing to pay around five hundred pesos, because they think this pearl is too big that it is not worthy. Kino got mad and he decide to go to the city himself to sell the pearl, but that night, someone came and attack Kino. Juana begged Kino to give up on the pearl, but he insist to keep it for their great future.

We can see how close is the connection between the unit of the town and the society and how it control each person because news spread quickly among the people. Kino became the target of pearl buyers and other people because of the great pearl he possess. To them, this pearl not just symbolize riches and great wealth, but also power. Kino is trying to move up from the society by this pearl and we knew from the previous chapter that Kino's amibiton can be an obsticle to his achievement, but in this chapter we also understand that the town is another great force that pull Kino down. Kino was wounded because of this pearl and the peaceful life that they originally had was broken up into pieces. It seems like in order to bring peace back was to leave everything the same, to be normal as it had always been in years. With the push from the the top and the pull from the bottom, can Kino ever be possible to break through the original level of the society and get what he wanted?  Or is the goal too high for him to reach that on the contrary he will just get bruise severely?

The Pearl-ch.3

     The news of Kino finding "the pearl of the world" spread throughout the town rapidly. Even faster than Kino getting back home. Everyone starts to dream of this pearl and what they will get if they have this pearl. The desire of this pearl is so deep that even the doctor that turn away from Kino wants it. But Kino and his wife disregard other people's jealousy, they invited the people in the town to share their joy. Kino even set up a plan-he wants to get marry with Juana, buy clothes, send Coyotito to school, and get a riffle. While Kino and his wife were intoxicated in the hope and changes that lies ahead their future, they didn't realize that other people too, were looking anxiously at their pearl.

       Later on, the Priest came to visit Kino and gave idea for the wedding at the church. After the priest left, the doctor and his servant came to visit them too, they say they want to look at Coyotito's woe. Juana was suspicious of their insinuation, but Kino allow them to check. The doctor said that the poison is still in Coyotito's body just like what he thought, and he will be back within a hour to see. And as the time come, Coyotito's face starts to turn red, but Juana was suspicious about the doctor, for she see him injecting something into Coyotito's body, but they have no evidence.
       The doctor came back and cure Coyotito, and then he ask when will Kino be able to pay the treatment. Kino reply back saying he will sell the pearl next morning and then he can pay. Then the doctor show his concern on the pearl and that he is willing to offer a safe place to keep it before it gets stolen, by hearing this, Kino reflectively glace at where he buried the pearl. After every one left, Kino was worried, so he reburied the pearl and then go to sleep. At night, Kino realize that someone got into his house and that person is searching for his pearl. So they were struggling and Kino got wounded and he bleed, then that person flee away. Juana was scared and declare that the pearl is evil, but Kino ignore her and believe that the pearl can bring great hope to their family.
     Inside the story, Juana states that the pearl is evil, but is the pearl really "evil"? Well, the pearl is not evil, instead, the greed and jealous for that pearl is the root of evilness. The pearl itself is just an evil instrument. Many people may agree that greed and jealousy is what it is evil, but if we see the story in depth, doesn't Kino's ambition have something to do with this too? This chapter clearly illustrate Kino's desire of a better life from this pearl. He is so intoxicated into the dreams the pearl might help fulfill that he didn't realize that his lack of knowledge might be the barrier that keeps him from fulfilling his "plans"! Furthermore, Kino have been so focus in finding a place to hide the pearl that he is failing his duty of a father too. We can tell from the story how insist is Kino in giving an education to his son, maybe is because of the difference between the two "world" mention in the previous chapter. But so far, everyone is so focus on the good side of the pearl, even though blood was shed for it, Kino is not willing to let go. Only Juana recognize the pain the pearl might bring to her family.

The Pearl-ch.2

The second paragraph just simply talks about Kino searching for a Pearl. The doctor refused to heal them because they are poor, and Kino knew this, so he went out and trying to find a pearl (since that is his job). And at the end, he not just found a really big and beautiful pearl, his son Coyotito, is feeling better too!
In the second chapter, there are a really inspiring quotes, it say that, "It is not good to want a thing too much. You must want it just enough." And this quote is found in page 100, paragraph 2. I think this is a really true sentence that reflects on our thought. Often times we will want something so much that we forget what we had, we start to be greedy and self-center, just like the doctor. We should recognize how much we had and want for something "just enough". /For greed is the root of all evil

The Pearl-ch.1

This story talks about a Mexican Indian call Kino. His job is to dive and find pearl, he has a wife name Juana and a baby son call Coyotitio. One day, Coyotitio got positioned by a scorpion on his shoulder, so Juana, his mother, suck the venom out of his shoulder. They decided to bring their kids to the doctor, and everyone was surprised, because the doctor is kind of a higher class among them, so they wonder will he accept a request to help a little poor native boy.
Many people follow them as they went to see the doctor. When Kino got there, he ask the man working for the doctor to let them see the doctor, because his son is hurt. So he reported to the doctor and the doctor refused to heal them because they are poor.
There is a group problem inside the story, that that is the differences between the social class of the doctor and Kino. (page 96, 3 paragraph) Their race is like two seperate world. Kino may want to cross the line and enter the world of the doctor, (page 96, middle of 3 paragraph) but he can't, and the doctor simply just don't want to cross the line. (page 97, 4 sentence)