The Pearl Demolition

1. After Kino leaves his Juana and Coyotito, he creeps up to the trackers quietly. However, Coyotito makes a murmur and alerts the trackers forcing them to get close to Juana and Coyotito. Hastily, Kino jumps out and stabs one of the trackers, gruesomely killing him. The other tracker, scared out of his pants dropped his rifle and ran. Kino picked up the gun and shot the other tracker. He came close to him and shot him again between the eyes.
2. As Kino and Juana walks into the town, the villagers scorn him, loopking away as if they abandoned them. The walk steadily with Kino holding the rifle and Juana carrying something in her shawl. They walk past the ruins of their home and into the sea, where Kino take out the Pearl and releases it into the open waters. At this time, Juana reveals what was in her shawl and Coyotito, with half of his head blown away lay inside the shawl, dead.
3. Defeated, Kino and Juana walk into the town without emotion. The book describes a darkness, so powerful that made the villagers disdain them, and the people said that he carried fear in them. The darkness blew the people away, generating fear and whispers, pain and enmity for the villagers from Kino and Juana. They do not seem to care how others look towards them, the pity of the villagers, and how the villagers tried to avoid them. They walk into the waters and Kino reveals the Pearl, tossing it into the water, for it had brought death to the young Coyotito, whom lay inside Juana's shawl.

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