They were very happy with the big pearl but soon they noticed it brought misfortune. The problem they are confronted with wasn't first a problem. First it had a giant value to him, 'the pearl became his soul' but after the death of his little son, it hadn't any value anymore, it was a bad, ugly pearl. At the end of the story this happened: "Kino drew back his arm and flung the pearl with all his might in the sea." But I think he knew it was enough when Coyotito has given up life, that it must end al the misery with that pearl. First he always said he wants to keep the pearl and he wouldn't see it brought misfortune but his wife Juana knew it from the beginning. I really notice an evolution in the main character. Kino is a very good, honest man and he wants that everybody is justice and honest. So he will protect his family and the health of Juana, his wife, and the baby. The nature of the main character: it's Kino, he always feels when something will happen, he want that Coyotito will go to school with the money they will receive from the pearl. I think he has chosen that point of view because the reader can follow all the facts. There is a little (non-remarkable) distance between the reader and the personages.
He describes all what happens, all the facts. The author himself seems to be the narrator of the story, he is outside the story, he's a storyteller. He is not pessimistic but he tells a story, a legend how it happened, he didn't add his own view of life. I find it's an original story and it's very realistic, the author's view on the world (in this book) is rather objective. The subjects are discovery (Kino finds a very big pearl, the pearl, in an oyster under the sea), adventure, travel (they have to take flight, because everybody wants to steel the pearl), disease (an scorpion has given Coyotito a sting), death (at the end of the book doesn't Coyotito live anymore). That 's the moment when he finds the pearl, it's the beginning of a long and sad story. Kino lifted the flesh, and there it lay the great pearl, perfect as the moon. "Kino put his knife in, and the shell fell open. When the fisherman, Kino, finds an extraordinary pearl he hopes it will bring comfort and health to his family, but soon he discovers that the pearl brings misfortune.
This novel by American writer John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is actually a retelling of a Mexican folk tale, the story of a poor fisherman, his wife and baby.
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