A critical appreciation of
“Night of the Scorpion”
Critical Appreciation Of “Night Of The Scorpion, In "Night of the Scorpion," the
speaker tells a story from his childhood in which his mother was bitten by a
scorpion. The poem begins with a simple declaration: Critical Appreciation Of “Night
Of The Scorpion,"I remember the night my mother / was stung by a
scorpion". The scorpion had entered the speaker's home because it wanted
to hide from the rain. When it bit the speaker's mother, it was hiding beneath
a sack of rice.
The speaker describes the incident in which the scorpion
stings his mother without mentioning his mother at all. Instead, he focuses on
the scorpion and what he did immediately afterward: "Parting with his
poison—flash / of diabolic tail in the dark room— / he risked the rain
again". Critical Appreciation Of “Night Of The Scorpion, Rather than stick
around and look at the scene he had caused, the scorpion ran back outdoors.
Critical Appreciation Of “Night Of The Scorpion,After the
speaker's mother was bitten, the speaker notes that poor people went to his
mother's side "like swarms of flies," buzzing with Christianity and
hoping to kill one of their visions of Satan. Critical Appreciation Of “Night Of
The Scorpion, The peasants look for the scorpion on their hands and knees with
lanterns.
Their wish is to find the scorpion quickly because they
believe that every movement the scorpion makes without getting killed affects
the speaker's mother: "With every movement that the scorpion made his
poison moved in Mother's / blood, they said".
Critical Appreciation Of “Night Of The Scorpion,The
peasants begin to share good wishes for the speaker's mother, hoping that the
scorpion will die that night, or at least sit still, that the sins of her past
life will be burned away, and that she may return to an even better life in her
next life because of her suffering.
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