Night of the scorpion and vultures both use description in a surprising way the authors both use the description to lead you to certain conclusions, they both then use a sudden change of description to make you change that conclusion making the ideas in the poem even more thought provoking.
The title night of the scorpion makes readers think about the dangerous and harsh nature of scorpions. But Ezekiel presents the scorpion as more of a victim rather than evil in the beginning, he makes us feel sympathy for the scorpion by describing it as “driven” into the hut by “ten hours of steady rain.” “Driven suggests that going into the hut is a last resort for the scorpion and that he just wants to be dry and out of the rain so he crawls “beneath a sack of rice.” This makes you see the scorpion as innocent and scared rather than dangerous. His sympathy for the scorpion is suddenly contrasted in the moment the scorpion stings his mother his tail is described as “diabolic” showing us the dangerous nature of the scorpion
