Status Updates From The Pearl

Ch. 2 Cyotito swollen & feverish, family gets into canoe (lifeblood of family) to hunt pearls. The ppl have songs for events and history, even the pearl that might be. Kino dives and collects clams, loading his basket. He sees a glimmer from a giant ancient clam. So large he clutches it to his chest. So excited he opens the others first. It’s the biggest pearl ever. Baby’s fever and swelling gone. Kino cries out!

Intro quote, “There are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere.”
Ch. 1 intros Kino, wife Juana, baby Cyotito. Sunrises on the beach are perfect, smell of Juana’s corn cakes, and coos from Cyotito. A scorpion stings the baby, town gathers, Kino rushes to doctor of other race whom he hates. Haughty doctor rejects Kino who hurts hand punching gate.