Another example of immoral actions brought on by greed is the reaction of the pearl buyers in the nearby town upon learning that Kino is selling his pearl. Whoever destroyed the canoe must have known how vital it was to Kino and his family, but they did it regardless. ![]() ![]() It is his family’s only means of survival, giving Kino and his family access to fish, for food, and pearls, his only source of income. The destruction of it is devastating to him he calls it “an evil beyond thinking,” commenting that “the killing of a man is not so evil as the killing of a boat” (62). One of these people destroys Kino’s canoe, his most prized possession.
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