Compare the ways in which the poets present people in Night of the Scorpion and Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes.

... Compare the ways in which the poets present people in Night of the Scorpion and Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes. In Night of the Scorpion, the title is in some ways deceptive. It leads us to believe we are in for a frightening and dramatic tale with a scorpion taking centre stage. In fact, the poem is not about the scorpion at all, but about the reactions of different people to its sting. The poem starts off in the first person when Ezekiel describes an event that really happened. However, he does not give his own feelings or reactions: we realise he is merely the narrator even though it is his mother who is being stung. Most of the poem is in the third person, as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say. He does not portray the scorpion as a villain: it

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