Night Of The Scorpion Dialectical Journal

After releasing the pearl, Kino and Juana stand for a long time watching the beautiful nature in front of them (90). This behavior resembles the appreciation Kino has for nature in the beginning of the story before the pearl comes into his

Kino and Juana, Kino’s wife, venture to the big, rich, nearby town to sell the marvelous pearl, but they fail because Kino thought it was worth more than what was offered. Soon enough, Kino’s house gets burned down by what are assumed to be jealous pearl-wanters. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito, their baby, have to leave because shortly after this, someone tries to kill them and steal the pearl, but

We both looked by were Coyotito was in the hanging box. It was a scorpion crawling on his hanging box. I moved quietly and smoothly as possible with my hands in front of me ready to catch the scorpion, but Coyotito had moved the rope on the hanging box where the scorpion fell on his shoulders and struck. Coyotito started crying and screaming. Juana proposed we take him to the doctor, I agreed.

The first instance of birds symbolizing Turtle maturing is when Lou Ann, Taylor and their friends are sitting in Lou Ann’s living room and Turtle is having trouble eating a piece of pineapple. They all laughed and cheered her on but she got startled and cried. Mr. Parsons takes a spoon and feeds a piece to her. The narrator explains, “ She looked like a newborn

She took one look and tells them that he is a angel who must have came for his son. She insisted on them to club him. But they didn’t have a heart to club him so they do the next worst thing they dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. He planned on sending him off in a raft the next

Travis confronts Officer Moyers on Doug 's disappearance and he claims that they found him and that they can 't have "head cases" like that around this area. Very suspicious... Travis then informs him of the flashing light in one of the houses on the hill. Moyers tells him it 's impossible because they went from house to house and didn 't find anything.

It is Proctor’s beliefs and qualities that stop him from going along with the trials. Throughout the story there are events that show Proctors qualities, the first of these is when Mary comes home from the trials(page ). Proctor is shocked that people are being hanged because of the lies, he never believes the charges that so many were faced with . The second event is when Hale comes to his house, the Proctors tell him that they do not believe that there are witches in Salem and that the charges of witchcraft on them are false. The third event is when procter comes to the court with evidence from Mary stating that the girls

Edna is informed by others that Robert is leaving for Mexico; he did not even tell her. She is very upset with him, but he comes to tell her goodbye, choosing his words wisely so he does not say how he really feels about her. Edna becomes very angry at the world since Robert is gone. Léonce gets mad at Edna for painting all the time nowadays instead of caring for her family. Léonce sees a doctor about Edna; he tells him her mood is just a phase and it will run its course.

Stanley continues to impose his reality onto Blanche, which causes her more anxiety relying more and more on herself to create more of an illusion by creating an admirer for herself, saying that she ended it with Mitch because she does not deserve “deliberate cruelty”, and crating this alter ego for herself as being pure. While Stella is in the hospital, he and Blanche are left alone for the night as she continues bragging about her admiration coming from Sheep Hunt Leigh and how she just got a wire from him. Stanley catches her in her life, finally tearing apart Blanche's illusions. Although Stanley has been a threat to her through his suspicion and empowering masculinity over her, the last scene is where he finally takes final control over her, or symbolically where reality has a final triumph over her illusions. While catching her in the midst of her lies she reveals to Blanche that “[he’s] been on to [Blanche] from the start!”

The previously poor Kino was overcome by the thoughts of the greatness that the pearl held when he could see the wealth in the pearl, and the happiness it would bring. Kino was a poor person, had a poor family and had been looked down upon his whole life. However, for once, he was able to look down on the pearl and see his great future. “Kino looked into the pearl...and in the incandescence of the pearl, the pictures formed of the things Kino’s mind had considered in the past and had given up as impossible.” (Steinbeck 24).

The group of men that entered the room included Bellingham, Wilson, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale. As soon as they entered, they were being rude to Pearl by calling her a demon child. The men ask Hester why she should be allowed to keep Pearl and she responds by saying Pearl teaches her an important lesson about her shame. In order for the men to come to a better conclusion about what to do with Pearl and Hester, they quiz Pearl about religious topics. However, she barely responds and seems to dislike the men.

Will the clone Matteo Alacran escape or will his life be taken by a powerful drug lord? In the book the House Of The Scorpion wrote by Nancy Farmer is about a clone. The clone is ruled by a powerful drug lord who wants to use his body parts for his life. The greatest gift that you can give is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.