What is the Song of the family in the book the Pearl?
Song of Family: The Song of Family is the rhythm that Kino hears in the life of his family, and in their routines. It’s the music of their life together and reflects their peaceful interaction with one another, even in silence.
What are Kino’s songs in the Pearl?
The Songs in The Pearl are all part of the Song of Life. They are a reflection of the native beliefs that the people of Mexico once had before the coming of the Europeans. They are for all aspects of life: The Family, Evil, the Enemy, What Might Be, the Undersea. All these are parts of Kino’s life.
What does the Song of the Pearl that might be mean?
The Song of the Enemy means loss, destruction, disconnection and rage to Kino. Song of the Pearl. The meaning of the Song of the Pearl That Might Be to Kino was a secret meaning, a secret plan, a secret wish and expectation.
What 3 things does the Song of evil symbolize?
The Song of Family represented balance and content, the Song of Evil represented unbalance and danger, and the Song of the Pearl represented greed and what it can do to you.
How is Kino searched for pearls?
Describe,in detail, how Kino searched for pearls? He tied a rock to his foot, went to the bottom, collected oysters in a basket for two minutes. Then he swam back up and opened them in the canoe. He believed the oyster had a special pearl in it.
What happens when Kino finds the pearl?
When Kino regain consciousness, Juana returns the pearl to him from where she found it lying behind a rock and tells him that they must flee the village because he has killed a man. Kino continues to believe that the pearl is not something evil but instead offers a more promising future for him and his family.
Why does Juana not get rid of the pearl?
Given a second opportunity after finding the pearl on the sand, why does Juana not get rid of it? She does not get rid of it because she sees Kino and another man lying on the sand of the beach. The man is dead but Kino is alive. They only had to save themselves.
Why does Kino hesitate when they reach the doctors residence?
Why does Kino hesitate when they reach the doctor’s residence? Because the doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino’s race; all of the doctor’s race spoke to all of Kino’s race as though they were simple animals.
Why did Juana let Kino throw the pearl away after he offered to let her do it?
They throw the pearl back into the sea because he felt guilt by what the pearl had represented.
What did the doctor give Coyotito?
The doctor takes a bottle of white powder and a gelatin capsule, and gives Coyotito a pill. When the doctor returns, he gives Coyotito water with ammonia and tells Kino that the baby will get well now. Kino tells the doctor that he will pay him once he has sold his pearl.
What does Kino fear in the Pearl?
After finding the pearl, Kino acts fearful the first night. In truth, he is afraid of others will come to steal the pearl, and he is afraid of any misfortune the pearl may invite into his life.