“The Pearl” starts off with a scare when baby Coyotito gets himself stung by the scorpion, even as his dad, Kino, tries to save him. Coyotito does not know that he is causing himself great trouble, as this quote shows, “the laughing Coyotito shook the rope and the …show more content…
The distraught parent’s had nothing to live for once their son had passed away. Kino was no longer so protective of the pearl. When they came back into the city they walked through “as though it were not there. Their eyes glanced neither right nor left nor up nor down, but stared only straight ahead” (p. 88). From this description of when they came back into town helps you to realize the emotion, or lack there of, that they were feeling. They had nothing to look forward to and nothing they wanted to look back on after Coyotito died. The lifelessness in there eyes show that with Coyotito’s soul leaving his body, Juana and Kino, too, lost there souls. “In the pearl he saw Coyotito sitting in a little desk in a school,” (p. 25) but with his son gone, he didn't care so much about the pearl, he no longer protected the pearl with his life. The pearl it meant nothing to