For what I've read of this book, I have a mistery and a though of what is going to happen. It starts talking about someone called Mr. Tench. This man , I living in Mexico, where things are really bad and the only thing there is to dring is water and beer, but beer is too expensive. For what is said, he is the dentist in this town, and the best one. He is in this town, and he meets some guy who he calls ''the stranger''. He starts talking to him because he realizes that he speakes english also. ''You don't happen, do you, to have a drink in that case of yours?''( pg.10) This shows a necesity and the way they are living that they do not have a lot of things, the first things he said to him was this. Mr Tench feels really happy with this stanger because he tells him ''It gets lonely here. It's good to talk english''(pg.14) He must be living in a misery and really alone. He invites this stranger to his house so they can drink the brandy he has, he talks to him about his life and his kid which he does not see years ago. He came to Mexico, but when he wanted to leave the pesos was really high for each dollar so he could not affort it. The drink brandy and then one kids gets to his door and tells him about his mom that is really sick and he needs a doctor. Mr Tench gets a really weird attitude towards that and he tells him '' if shes dying, theres no point in a doctor seeing her''(pg16) I think this is a relly cruel thing to say , because the doctor (the stranger) could help him but Mr Tench shows no feelings at all.
For what I could see in this firsts chapter in Mr Tench is trapped, he is not really happy in Mexico, but he also has feelings about thhings but they also may be because the misery is so big he does not have any hope.
