How is the poet's father different from the other people in the village in Night Of The Scorpion?

Answer 1

The villagers were superstitious and began to chant the various names of their Gods so that the sonar effect of this would make the scorpion leave it's hiding place. They also said among them that the sins of the woman would be burnt away in the fire of her agony. But the poet's father was a rational man to think scientifically and to put paraffin on the bitten toe and light it on the hope that in the heat so generated, the chemical properties of the poison would be lost and it would become ineffective in the blood. However when the agony seemed not to have abated he became frantic, because a wife is a wife.

Answer 2

The poet's father in "Night of the Scorpion" is portrayed as calm and pragmatic, in contrast to the superstitious behavior of the other villagers. While they resort to various rituals and beliefs to try and help the mother, the father remains composed and rational throughout the ordeal.