me 😭

ME TOO

Nah just the book so boring it makes me wanna fall asleep. ☠️

When they return home, they fully accept the consequences of doing that. Not just the murder that took place before fleeing, but also having a busted canoe and a burnt down house. You don't get to know the consequences of the murder, just as you don't get to know the consequences of them being unemployed and homeless. It's up to you to decide how the town is realistically going to handle the situation. As for the notion that it doesn't make sense to return since they came so far, killed three people, and were already malnourished; there's one important thing you need to remember. When Quino tells the townspeople what he's going to do with the money, he mentions that he's going to get married, buy a rifle, and get his son an education. One of those three things is evidently most important to him, and it's the last one. When he goes to sleep, he dreams of coyotito learning to read. When he looks into the pearl, he sees coyotito reading. In both of these instances, neither the wedding nor the rifle come up. With that being said, you can safely assume that, without the existence of his son, it not even worth going to the capital to sell the pearl for a higher price. If he can't buy his child an education, then he might as well have just sold it to the brokers in his hometown who were purposely underselling him. I hope this makes sense.