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Comparing 'The night of the scorpion' and 'Digging'.
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... Comparing Two Poems The poem 'The Night Of The Scorpion' deals with many points of family relationship as does the other poem 'Digging'. In 'The Night Of The Scorpion the relationship is between the mother and the chidren. In 'Digging ' the relationship is between the son and father. * Straight away at the start of the poem 'The Night Of The Scorpion' there is a feeling of tenderness by the mother and willingness of sacrifice by her. (line 47, "thank god the scorpion picked on me and spared my children"). * There is also a community of peasents in the poem which shows that they are in a close relationship. This feeling of relationship is expressed well in line 8 ("the peasents came like a swarm of flies). * The community also show sighns of belief of god ar a special god. There is also superstition beween the peasents as showed
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