Upstairs, the doctor sits in bed surrounded by his luxurious things. The man listens to Kino’s story and then asks him to wait while he goes to get the doctor. This is good news because it means that Kino can converse with her in his native tongue what happened to Coyotito and hopefully get the child the help he needs. The gate opens to reveal a servant of the doctor, one of Kino’s own people who works in the doctor’s house.
When the crowd arrives at the gate, Kino knocks.
Kino resents and slightly fears the doctor as he is a powerful man and not a friend that he is familiar with. People from around town also begin to follow them as they are curious to see what the poor man’s plea to the doctor will bring. The neighbors trail behind them as they run.People from around town also begin to follow them as they are curious to see what the poor man’s plea to the doctor will bring. Juana does not listen to these objections and begins running for the center of town with Coyotito in her arms. This request surprises Juan, as the doctor is above the social class of the poor natives of the town that live in the brush houses and has never visited them before. Kino asks that his brother runs to fetch the town’s doctor. The babies cries bring many neighbors to Kino’s house including his brother, Juan and his wife Apolonia. Coyotito begins to scream in pain as his mother snatches him up and tries to suck the scorpion venom out of the wound. Kino seizes the insect and smashes it to death on the floor. The scorpion lands on the baby and stings him. Before Kino can catch the scorpion, the baby spots the insect and laughs joyfully as it shakes the rope holding up the crib.The scorpion lands on the baby and stings him. The couple spring into action, Kino moves to capture the scorpion while Juana says a prayer and recites a charm for the child’s safety. The morning is quiet and content between Kino and his wife until a ray of light shines into the hut and they realize that a scorpion is crawling down the rope into Coyotito’s crib. Kino wraps a blanket around his shoulders and goes outside to watch the sunrise. Kino listens to the sounds of the waves rolling by on the beach outside as his wife rises and checks on their baby. In a kind of makeshift cradle made of a box hanging from the roof of the small hut, Kino’s infant son, Coyotito sleeps soundly and his wife, Juana, sleeps beside him on their mat. Kino is a Mexican-Indian man and he lives in a house made of bundles of straw. In the year 1900 in the village of La Paz on the coast of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico a pearl diver named Kino awakens in his bed. At the end of the novella, Kino and Juana return to their town with their son’s body and fling the cursed pearl back into the sea. There is a struggle between Kino and the trackers and though he manages to kill them all, the baby is shot during the fight. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito leave town bound for the capital in order to see if they can sell the pearl but are set upon by trackers soon after they leave. Envy sets in, and people being trying to steal the pearl and attack the family. After Kino brings the pearl home, word spreads around the town that he has found a large pearl that is certain to make his family rich. Kino finds a very large pearl that seems to have magical properties as it heals the baby on it’s own. After being turned away by the doctor for having no money, Kino and his wife, Juana take to his canoe to dive for pearls in the sea in the hopes that they will find one big enough to pay for treatment for the child. One morning as the sun is rising, Coyotito is stung by a deadly scorpion and, in fear for his life his parents rush him to the town doctor. The novella follows the story of a poor Mexican-Indian man named Kino who lives with his wife and their newborn son, Coyotito in a house made of brush.