Kino's vision from the soul becomes blurred by the possible prosperity the pearl will bring. The evil invades Kino's life as well as everyone he knows and loves.The malignant evil spreads throughout the town. The very night that the town learns of Kino's pearl, an attempt to steal it occurs. The next night, Kino’s attackers return, which results in Kino committing murder. After the final struggle of the night, Juana comes home to find more nefarious members of the heartless thieves rampaging through their belongings in search of the pearl. The end result is Kino and Juana's house going up in flames. The villains then commit the cardinal sin, they destroy Kino's canoe, an item bequeathed down from his father who in turn got it from Kino’s grandfather. “This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.” The heartless group annihilated the most important material possession that any citizen of the community owned "...for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something. It was the bulwark against starvation". A group known only as the trackers receives the evil and greed that the pearl engenders. This corrupt group of ruffians attacks and destroys Kino's life just for the want of wealth. This results in Kino fleeing with his wife and child into the mountains. By this time the hatred and enmity swells in Kino’s blood. He manages to kill his enemies but at the cost of his beloved son Coyotito. This is the cost of evil and greed among those who desire it over anything else....
