The Pearl

What does Juana try to do with the pearl? why? what does Kino do?

Chapter 5

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Juana thinks the Pearl has a cursed power over men's hearts. Kino begins to feel a great sense of rage as he hears Juana's footsteps going toward the shore; Juana is going to throw the pearl back into the ocean. Kino chases Juana, then strikes her in the face with his clenched fist and kicks her in the side. He then turns away from her and walks up the beach. Juana knows that when Kino said that he is a man, he meant that he was "half-insane and half-god" and knows as a woman that "the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it."

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