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Night of the Scorpion

Objectives:. By the end of today's lesson you will be able to:Understand the skills used in transferring a poem to another medium;Understand the issues raised by Night of the Scorpion.. CULTURE. India:A densely populated country with a large proportion living in relative poverty;Religion stills forms an essential aspect of society in most cases..

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Night of the Scorpion

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    1. Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel

    2. Objectives: By the end of today’s lesson you will be able to: Understand the skills used in transferring a poem to another medium; Understand the issues raised by Night of the Scorpion.

    3. CULTURE India: A densely populated country with a large proportion living in relative poverty; Religion stills forms an essential aspect of society in most cases.

    4. SURFACE MEANING A child watches as their mother, having been stung by a scorpion, struggles against the poison as the rest of the village use their methods to save her.

    8. IDEAS, ATTITUDES, FEELINGS Ideas: A strong belief in the battle between good and evil Attitudes: Faith in the power of religion and fate Feelings: The “I” voice of the child mentions no fear or concern for the mother but remains emotionally detached as if recounting a distant memory with a known ending

    9. LANGUAGE

    10. BBC AUDIO

    11. Scripting the Poem The narrative style of Night of the Scorpion lends itself well to transferring the scenes and ideas of the poem into another medium; Create a script for a film or theatre version of the poem; Decide if you will use a monologue, like a soliloquy, to express the narrators view, or whether you will go for more naturalistic approaches involving the peasants speaking and acting as if they were really in that scene with many stage directions given as to how characters interact and use their body language.

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