![]() ![]() The first thing Kino sees upon opening his eyes is the light outlining the door to his hut and then he sees the hanging box where his infant son, Coyotito, sleeps. The roosters, pigs and wild birds are already awake in the yard outside Kinos thatch hut. Kino awakens just as the morning light is coming into the sky. The novel opens just before dawn in the coastal village of La Paz on the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() The narrator speculates that if the story is a parable then perhaps the reader will find some lesson for his or her own life. As such, things in the story will be black and white, more purely evil and good than as in life. In it the narrator states that the story of the pearl has been worn to its essence by many retellings in the town from which it originated.
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