He is now a murderer and, though he killed in self-defense, he knows that the officials in the town will not believe his story. When Kino kills his assailant the ties to his life as a member of the village are forever sundered. Thus, the process begun with the discovery of the pearl and Kino's refusals to accept the buyer's offer has now come to bloodshed. This chapter chronicles the further deterioration of Kino's former life as he fights with Juana, suffers the loss of his canoe and home and is again assaulted by an unknown enemy. Before Kino leaves he tells his brother that he cannot give up the pearl because it has become part of his soul. Kino tells his brother that he and his family will go overland to the north where they believe there are cities where they can sell the pearl. Under various pretences, Juan Thomes borrows food and tools, including a long knife, from his neighbors and gives them to Kino. A fierce storm lashes the water throughout the course of the day and none of the pearl divers take their boats to sea. Kino, Juana and Coyotito spend the day hiding in Juan Thomes' hut while Juan Thomes spreads various theories among the villagers as to where Kino might have disappeared. At Kino's command, however, she fetches Juan Thomes who, after hearing that Kino has killed a man, agrees to hide his brother until nightfall. Apolonia returns distraught from watching Kino's hut burn and is surprised to find them alive and in her hut. Kino, Juana and Coyotito slip into Juan Thomes' house before anyone sees them. Juana explains that she returned to the hut to find that it had been ransacked and then, as she searched the wreckage, someone had set fire to it from the outside. Numbed by the loss of his canoe Kino walks toward his hut but before he reaches it he sees flames leaping into the predawn sky. Kino discovers that someone has knocked a hole in the bottom of his canoe - an unthinkable crime in the village. Juana goes to gather Coyotito and all their available food from the hut while Kino goes to get his canoe ready for the journey. Kino agrees that they would not receive fair treatment if the case was presented in town and they decide to flee together. Juana explains quickly that she has the pearl and that because Kino has killed a man they must leave immediately. While she drags the dead man into the bushes Kino comes back to consciousness and begins mourning for the loss of his pearl. Juana realizes in an instant that their old life is irrevocably gone and that they must flee or be destroyed. On her way home Juana finds the pearl behind a stone where Kino dropped it during the assault and then she sees Kino and another man with a fatal gash in his throat lying on the beach. She accepts these differences between the sexes as the way of the world. She holds no grudge against Kino because she believes men to be half-insane and half gods and she believes she could not live without one. Meanwhile Juana washes her bruised face in the ocean. Though he pierces one of his attackers with his knife the others strike him to the ground and search Kino's pockets. On his way back to the hut, however, several assailants assault Kino. Kino takes the pearl and leaves Juana lying in the surf. Throughout this ordeal Juana makes no attempt to resist. Kino strikes Juana brutally in the face and then kicks her in the side after she has fallen to the ground.
Full of anger, Kino follows her to the shore where he stops her just as she is about to throw the pearl into the sea. After the final struggle of the night, Juana went back to their home to find more baneful members of the heartless cult rampaging through their belongings to find the pearl.Kino awakens late in the night and watches Juana go the pearl's hiding place after which she slips quietly out the door. The next night, Kino was attacked twice, which resulted in Kino committing murder.
The very night that the trackers learned of Kino’s pearl, they tried to steal it. This corrupt band of ruffians attacked and destroyed Kino’s life. The malignant evil then spread to a secret cult known only as the trackers.
Juana saw through the outer beauty of the pearl and knew it would destroy them, but Kino’s vision was blurred by the possible prosperity the pearl brought. When Juana wanted to destroy the pearl, Kino beat her unmercifully: He struck her in the face and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side…He hissed at her like a snake and she stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a butcher. He had dreams and goals that all depended on the pearl. He wanted to sell the pearl and use the money to better his family’s standard of living. The pearl’s evil did not restrict itself to infecting Kino’s peers it also affected Kino himself. The evil in the pearl had reached the heart of the doctor.