The main character and his family take shelter in Apolonia and Juan Tomás's house before fleeing into the mountains of the Baja Peninsula where trackers eventually shoot (*) Coyotito in the head.
The presence of a skinny black puppy "with flame spots over his eyes" intensifies one character's sense of foreboding in this work, and that character later has a dream in which his son is reading from a book "as large as a house" before a sense of evil music awakens him. An appraiser in this work briefly loses his composure and fumbles the coin with which he was practicing legerdemain when he is visited by the protagonist. The main character and his family take shelter in Apolonia and Juan Tomás's house before fleeing into the mountains of the Baja Peninsula where trackers eventually shoot (*) Coyotito in the head. A couple's contented breakfast routine is shattered when a scorpion falls on their son and stings him in this novella, but a doctor refuses to treat the son. For 10 points, name this novella about the tragic events that follow Kino's discovery of a certain large and expensive item, a work by John Steinbeck.
The presence of a skinny black puppy "with flame spots over his eyes" intensifies one character's sense of foreboding in this work, and that character later has a dream in which his son is reading from a book "as large as a house" before a sense of evil music awakens him.
The Pearl (or The Pearl of the World)