What in general happens in the first chapter?

• The Pearl is set in La Paz, Mexico. The story is related from the perspective of a third-person omniscient narrator.

• In Chapter 1, Kino awakens moments before dawn and sees his wife Juana already awake and watching him.

• Juana wakes their son Coyotito carefully and prepares for the day ahead.

• Just after breakfast, a scorpion falls into Coyotito's crib and stings him.

• Coyotito screams and Juana tries to suck the poison out.

• Hopeless, Juana tells Kino that she wants to see the doctor.

• Followed by the people of their village, Juana and Kino take Coyotito to the doctor.

• He refuses to see them since they have little money.