His attitude changes or discontent starts when the doctor will not treat Coyioto's scorpion sting. ... According to Elysa Loyd the book " [ dramatizes] man's struggle to know . . . value, a struggle complicated by his . . . position between the material . . . and the spiritual world" (Loyd, pg. 318). Similarly Lisca describes the end of the book as "Kino and Juana [returning] to the garden of Eden, [putting] the apple back on the tree as it were" (Lisca, pg. 137). ...