Chapter one analysis/ character intro By: Fatima Qabazard

A Mexican/ Indian pearl diver named Kino, He has  a wife named Juana and a son named Coyotito. He lives in a brush house and is woken up by the sound of roosters. He awakens a watches the hanging box (where is son sleeps). Also looks at his wife that is already awake, and he never saw her asleep she has always been awake. Here we get a layout of the family and of the relationship between Kino and Juana. Then he closes his eyes and listens to the sound of the ocean he calls “the family song”.  He describes it as a song of his ancestors before him, and then steps outside of his brush house to watch the sun rise.

Juana embracing tito.

Kino's family.

While he dose that Juana begins to make a fire in the pit and to grind corn for morning corncrakes. This is the begging of their daily life morning routine, and nature and his ancestors are introduced in the back ground. While he sits outside Kino watches a crowd of industrious ants and coaxes a shy dog that has wandered over to their hut,. These ants quietly working together represent his family and the town. And his wife in the background singing for their son and makes cake. This moment introduces a tone of safety, quiet and gentleness. Breakfast sounds come from neighboring huts.
Two roosters look to be about to fight, and their routine is disturbed. So he enters to eat the cake with his wife and their relationship is close that they don’t need to speak. While eating the sun light steams in their hut. Suddenly both of them freez as they look at Coyotito hanging box and notice a movement. There is a scorpion climbing slowly down the rope of the hanging box, toward Coyotito.  While nature so far has  so far a source of peace and quiet here it becomes a source of danger, in this dangerous creature. Kino begins to approach the hanging box, “the song of Evil” playing in his ears. As the scorpion moves further down the rope Juana whispers an ancient prayer. Kino reaches for the scorpion but it freeze in its place and flicks its tail. 

Coyotito then laughs and shakes the hanging box’s rope, causing the scorpion to fall on him and sting his shoulder. Then from his shoulder Kino takes the scorpion and squashes it. Meanwhile Juana , tries to suck the poison out of Coyotito’s shoulder. Kino stands by, feeling helpless. From the baby Coyotito cry all of the neighbors rush into the brush house. They know that a scorpion bite could easily kill a baby. As Juana stays strong and takes authority she demands a  doctor. But the doctor never comes  to their neighborhood. Her request spreads through the neighbors. the word gets back that the doctor will not come, Juana decides that the family will go to the doctor themselves.  As Kino and Juana as they walk to and arrive at the city, replete with plaster, stone, and fancy gardens.  The difference in the economic inequality between the city and Kino’s brush-house town is illustrated. 

A greedy, cruel human.

Beggars in front of the church there, who know everything about the town—the sins of its inhabitants, the bad ways of the doctor. They see Kino and Juana as poor truly highlights just how poor and powerless they must be. At the doctor’s gate, Kino hesitates, recalling that the doctor’s people had historically oppressed his own people (ancestral history of oppression weighs heavily on him.)  finally, he knocks the iron ring against the gate and reports Coyotito’s sting to the servant who opens it, speaking in the old language because the servant is of his race. The servant does not reply in the old language, and heads inside to call on the doctor.  This servant is an example of someone whose native traditions and language have been replaced by those of the colonizers.  the doctor's rich, luxurious, selfish lifestyle, he is drinking chocolate in a Parisian dressing gown in his bed  and dreams about returing to france. On the wall pictures of Religious and his dead wife. When the servant tells him about Kino, Juana and coyotiti situation he refuses to cure him while he is a doctor (whose job it is to care for people) now because of the racial difference. He refers to Kino and Juana as though they are animals and not worthy of his time and attention. The doctor asks if Kino has money so the servant returns to the gate and asks how Kino planned to pay. When Kino pulls out eight ugly, flat pearls, the servant reports that the doctor had to rush out and would not be able to see them. Then he stands for a while at the gate he punches the gate, and then looks down at his bloody knuckles in wonderment.