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KINO

 

Description

 

  • Juana’s Husband

  • The young Indian pearl 

  • Mexican-Indian

  • Who works as a pearl diver

  • Devoted father and husband

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Feelings

 

  • Loving

  • Violent

  • paranoid

 

 

Behavior

 

  • Himself becoming increasingly violent, paranoid and defiant

  • Resorts to assaulting Juana and murdering those who threaten him.

 

 

 

Juan Tomas

 

Description

 

  • Juan Tomas is Kino’s older brother

 

 

Feelings

 

  • Partner

  • comprehensive

  • fair

 

Behavior

 

  • who provides his younger sibling

        with shelter, wisdom, and support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUANA

 

Description

 

  • Kino's wife

  • She is obedient and devoted to her family.

  • The mother of Coyotito

 

 

Feelings

 

  • Loving

  • Comprehensive

  • Dedicated

 

 

Behavior

 

  • She even refuses to obey Kino when he suggests that they take separate paths to avoid the trackers.

 

 

The pearl-dealers

 

Description

 

  • individual buyers

     

     

Feelings

  • cheats

  • dishonest

  • ambitious

 

Behavior

 

  • Each providing estimates independently of one another, they are, in fact, all operating under a single master buyer, who controls their bids and wages.

  • The buyers have conspired to give him the lowest estimate possible.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coyotito      

 

Description
 

  • Is Kino and Juana's infant son

  • The infant son

 

 

The Doctor

 

Description

 

  • surrounded by luxuries

  • He refuses to treat Coyotito for a scorpion sting when Kino and Juana cannot pay enough.

 

Feelings

 

  • A ruthless,

  • Selfish man

  • Love of money

  • Ambitious

 

 

 

The priest

 

Description

 

  • plays an active colonizing role in La Paz

  • spreading the Christian faith

 

Feelings

 

  • he is only interested in the wealth that their

pearl promises.

 

Behavior

 

  • Kino and Juana are persuaded by his benevolence they follow his advice and repeat his sermons and prayers he may not be as virtuous

 

 

Apolonia

 

Description

 

  • Apolonia is Juan Tomas’s wife

  • Kino’s sister-in-law.

 

Feelings

 

  • Attentive

  • kind

  • patient

 

Behavoir

 

  • She helped to kino and Juana to escape  of the fire of the hut and of the murder of a stranger

 

 

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