Events
This event prompts Kino and Juana to seek help from the doctor.
What is Coyotito is stung by a scorpion?
This is the protagonist of the story.
Who is Kino?
Kino's family lives here.
What is, in a brush house near the Gulf?
In this text the word "indigent" means this.
What is poor or lacking basic necessities?
Juana is described in the text using these words.
What are patient, strong, and protective?
The doctor refusing to help Kino highlights this important aspect of the community.
What are social and racial inequalities?
She is Kino's wife.
Who is Juana?
The story begins at this time of day.
What is the dawn or early morning?
Define "avarice."
Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
This imagery is used to describe the dawn.
What are "a wash", "a glow", and "an explosion of fire" as the sun rises?
Kino and Juana do this after the scorpion sting.
What is going to find the doctor to save Coyotito?
His name is Coyotito.
Who is Kino and Juana's infant son?
This type of lifestyle is reflected in the environment around Kino's home.
What is a simple, and rural lifestyle?
In the context of the story a "hammock" refers to this.
What is a hanging bed made of fabric or netting?
The author uses personification in the chapter when he describes these.
What are ants?
Ants are described as "busy" and "frantically trying to escape."
The community's reaction to Kino's situation show this.
What are concerns?
neighbors gather and show concern, reflecting their close-knit community.
This is the doctor’s attitude toward Kino and his family.
What is disdain and arrogance? or Considering them beneath him?
This is the social setting of the town where Kino lives.
What is a town divided by wealth, with a stark contrast between the rich and the poor.
In general, a "melody" is this.
What are a sequence of notes that are musically satisfying?
This is Kino's perception of the scorpion's movements?
What are delicate and dangerous?
This incites Kino's anger or rage at the doctor's gate?
What is the doctor’s refusal to help them?
The doctor refuses to treat Coyotito due to their poverty and his disdain for Kino's race.
This is what Juana does when Coyotito is stung by the scorpion.
What is attempts to suck out the poison to save her baby?
This is the significance of the ocean in the story.
What is life and hope, or dreams and struggles?
In the context of the novel a "parable" is this.
What is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson?
The scorpion that stings Coyotito is called this, which is a symbol for a divine agent.
What is the "enemy" or "evil"?