Compare The Speaker In Night Of The Scorpion By Nissin Ezekiel And Nothing's Changed By Tatamkhulu Afrika.
Night of the Scorpion is set in a poor, tight-knit community in Egypt. We can tell this because the villagers believe in the fight against good and evil, they use curses and chants to take away pain and the medicines used are herbal. They even resort to trying to burn out the sting of the scorpion; He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it'. The poverty of the community is also reflected in the fact that they do not have a bed to lay the woman on they just have a mat on the floor. My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat. The villagers are referred to as peasants showing the length to which the poverty goes.
Other things which tell us about the poem's culture are; the sack of rice which the scorpion hides beneath, the mud-baked walls that the small hut is made of, the candles and lanterns used instead of lights and the way that the people believe that pain can purify you and that ambition and desire are evil. All these things......
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