• 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.
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