In the story House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is Matt Alacran. The main setting is in the future in the opium fields and Atlzan. In the beginning of the story, we meet Matt in Celia's house. The main conflict in the book is Matt being a clone, the whole entire book Matt worries about being a clone and that people will know and what they will do. The solution to the conflict is that all the Alacran died and he is now a real person since El Patron died. In the story
The story, The House of the Scorpion, is written by Nancy Farmer. The main character is Matt and the setting mostly takes place in Opium. In the beginning of the story, a scientist is in a lab and puts a cell into the womb of a cow. This cell is from the DNA of El Patron, a powerful drug lord, and the beginning of Matteo Alacran. After nine months, the cow gives birth to Matt. Although all clones are given a induction to make them brainless, Matt was not given one. The main conflict is, evidently
In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, Matteo Alacrán’s life was full of many hardships. All of his struggles made Matteo, aka Matt, stronger. His new strengths proved very helpful during different arduous times. These difficult circumstances included having to live in a pen for multiple days, escaping from his home unnoticed, and working in a strict Plankton Factory. These struggles helped Matt to face other challenges he came across. Matt was born a clone. This made things very difficult
Matt, the main character of the book, The House of the Scorpion, goes through his life being criticized and tormented because of one thing that sets him apart from most people. He is a clone, but not just any clone, all the other clones minds were wiped and destroyed and they were called eejits and they only do things on command. Matt is the clone of a very rich man named El Patron. El patron wanted Matt to have a normal life as a boy but Matt found out why El Patron really did this for him. All
In the story “House Of The Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmers, the main character of the story is Matteo (Matt) Alacran. The main setting of the story takes place in the country of Opium. In the beginning of the story, it describes a man named Eduardo who delivers a baby Matt from birth from a cow. There were thirty six split cells of life in the beginning, but only Matt was the droplet that lived. The main conflict of the story is Matt himself; he is a clone of the one of the most powerful drug
I believe that one way you can look at the book The House of the Scorpion through a lens is by considering how class plays a role in the lives of different characters and their relationships in the book. Some characters whose lives have been affected by their class include: Matt, El Patron, and the Eejits. One character who is affected by the class he belongs to is Matteo Alacran. If you don’t know anything about Matt, you should probably know that he is a clone. Through his years of youth, Matt
In the story “The House of Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmer, the main characters are Matteo Alacran who is a clone from El Patron. Matteo was made by a scientist in lab in the mexican border. Another main character is Matt’s caregiver which is a woman named Celia, where she worked at the Big House. Lastly, the third main character is El Patron, who is a powerful drug lord of opium in mexico. The main settings is in the future where they now know the knowledge of cloning. The main problem is that
In the story The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer, the main characters are Matt, El Patron, Tam Lin, Celia, and Maria. The main setting of the book is in the Opium fields, which are strips of poppies, that lay in between the United States and Aztlan. In the beginning of the story, we learned how Matt was created in the lab, and why he is different from the rest of his kind. The main problem or conflict in the book is that Matt is a clone, and clones are looked down upon in the Opium
never been the same. The House of the Scorpion, published by Nancy Farmer in 2002, follows Matteo as he learns about his life’s purpose and how he adapts to the changes around him. Set in the future where hovercrafts and cloning is possible, the book is based on a character who creates clones to live longer passed his expiration date. Every clone has a serum which dulls the brain injected into them. Matteo, Matt for short, never had the injection. Everything about the character Matt drives the story
field with his caretaker, Celia, but as he grows older he becomes an outcast and goes through hardships that ultimately change him. In Nancy Farmer’s “The House of the Scorpion” Matt goes through hardships in which he develops traits of braveness, confliction and determination; these hardships and traits help Matt mature and grow as a character throughout the novel, allowing the development of Matt’s morality and the development of the story. Throughout the book, Matt has to be brave and take risks