So far I know that Kino and Juana do not have a lot of money and live in a town with many neighbors in brush houses. They sleep on a sleeping mat on the ground and Coyotito sleeps in a box that hangs. I'm wondering why Kino doesn't try to go diving for pearls more often and sell them. Why he doesn't try to look for work for money since he doesn't have any. Never in the first half of the book does it seem like he is worried to find a job and to make money. It's like he is contempt with being poor until he finds the pearl.
One question I asked myself was when Kino foudn the pearl, why did he scream? At first I thought that it was a bad scream because Juana had just said something about Coyotito. I didn't know if he the author was trying to emphasize the excitement and joy of Kino, but I couldn't tell. I thought that maybe he was screaming because there was something still wrong with Coyotito. Which makes sense. People do seem to scream when there is something wrong, not necessarily when something is very right.
And also, I found it weird how everyone in the town suddenly knew that Kino had found the pearl. Was the news traveled by word or was it just a simultaneous thing? It's like as soon as Kino had it, no one had to talk about it, but already people in the nice part of town knew.
I'm trying to guess where this book takes place. THe setting still isn't very clear to me. They talked about pesos in the pricing, so I'm guessing Mexico or Spain. And also, when did this take place? It's not current because they talk about horses as a way of traveling. And I don't think that trading pearls for money is current either, but I could be wrong. But they did talk about the United States as country. So perhaps it takes place in the last century or two.
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