The Pearl Journal Entry 2

One continuous thing I noticed about the writing was the way the author kept saying that Kino's outside was "hardening" - almost like a pearl would. The outside of the grain of sand, like explained in the book, would continue to get harder and harder until it was a pearl. I think the author was trying to draw a deeper connection of Kino and the pearl. Obviously there was a connection because he owned the pearl and he found it, but I think there was a connection, as if when the pearl was showing its evil, Kino also showed his evil. He was killing people and working as a "wild animal" and "machine" as if he didn't have feelings about what he was doing, like the pearl might. And even in the end it said that Kino and Juana had no emotion on their faces. You would think they would since they had just lost their only child.
One question I asked myself while reading the second half was why would the "dark people" kill them for the pearl? Would just stealing it be so bad? And then I thought that maybe they wanted to kill Kino for killing one of the other "dark people" back in the brush house village. And also, who were these people? Were they the pearl buyers trying to get the pearl for free? That would make sense. Or were they jealous neighbors? Though I don't think the neighbors would want to shed blood of Kino for the pearl. I was thinkinging maybe some people who worked for the one person who bought pearls were involved. Since the book said that really only one person had bought the pearls but had many faces, the dark people could be working for him.
Honestly the ending left me a little confused. Where do Kino and Juana live once they get home? Are the neighbors welcoming? Kino and Juana did just leave without notice. I even think that some neighbors thought that Kino and Juana had died. And did they find out that Kino was the one that murdered the man by the beach? The book never even spoke that the village found the body. Did they? You would think that a dead body would be pretty suspicious in a village. I could be wrong.