Cloning Themes In 'The House Of The Scorpion'

This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.

First, Matt grows up by accepting his identity. In this book Matt faces a bunch of problems that have to deal with him being a clone. Everybody besides a select few, discriminate against him for

His mother treats him like a slave, giving him daily chores and unbelievably ruthless punishments. He has become inhuman to her as she refers to him as “It.” The only hope of survival relies on his dad, in God, or in a miracle. His story promotes the courageous human spirit and the determinate to survive.

I find the theme in this book to be something that an anyday person or child would experience in a day or much longer piece of time. Any person can experience times of confusion and emotional instability, but if that person sticks it out; they will find an answer to their problems or they will answer answer it for themselves. This pertains to a lifelong conflict, but it does not just pertain to that. It relates to a situation in a day, week, or even, an

Summarize- In the book The House of the Scorpion the author Nancy Farmer tells the story of a young clone boy and the struggles and events throughout his life. In the beginning of the book one of the main things that happens is when it tells the story of how Matt’s embryo was injected into a cow to be born. Later in the book it shows how Matt, now grown up, is locked in his house all his life and one day some kids see him so he jumps out the window and cuts his feet badly for the first time. The kids take him back to their house and then find out he’s a clone so a woman named Rosa locks him in a room with sawdust. One of the kids, Maria, does not care Matt is a clone and she visits him while he’s locked up but is then kicked out of the house for this reason. Months later, he is found by his original caretaker and told that he will soon be

Another reason is that Tam Lin killed more people when he was trying to redeem himself. In the book it states that, “ It had gone on for hours when Tam Lin bought out a special wine that has been bottled the year El Patron was born” The last reason is that Tam Lin knew he was going to die because El Patron told him about it. In the book it states that, ”El Patron told him everything.” Tam Lin knew he was going to die but he shouldn’t have brought out the wine, he killed more people, and MAtt would be happy.

Matt is faced with fact that he will die to help El Patron. To escape his horrible fate, Matt escapes to Aztlan, but is taken to a plankton farm and must escape once again. While facing all these obstacles, Matt Alacran never gives up achieving what he wants. In the end we can see Matt had friends who trusted him and didn’t care if he was a clone, such as Maria, Celia, Chaco, and Fidelito. When he returns back to Opium and hears about Tam Lin’s sacrifice, he sets his mind to freeing the eejits and making Opium into a better land. Overall, he became someone people can trust and someone who wasn’t just El Patron’s clone, but just Matt Alacran. This novel was able to show readers the true meaning of what it is to a human through a clone’s eyes who has been going through a tough journey to become a person with a good

In the novel House of the Scorpions by Nancy Farmer, the memoir, Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman, and the short story The Scholarship Jacket by Martha Salinas, the common theme is that a person is always a person, no matter their wealth, their skin color, or even their birth circumstances. In the House of the Scorpions, an instance that shows this is when Matt finally listens to what all of his friends have been telling him, about how he is not inferior to them. Another example that accentuates the theme from Where Am I Wearing is where the reader learns about the terrible conditions Bangladeshi workers have to suffer through. A final example of the theme in The Scholarship Jacket is when Martha is denied the jacket because she’s poor and Mexican. A common theme similarly found in The House of the Scorpions by Nancy Farmer, The Scholarship Jacket by Martha Salinas, and Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman is that everyone is human, no matter their financial status, ethnicity, not to mention circumstances of birth, and all deserve to be treated the same.

In The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer states, "No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a lie." Members of the Alacrán household try to choose Matt's destiny before he is created and impose false allegations on him throughout his life. The belief that Matt is dangerous, a useless clone, and will become like El Patrón leaves him no room to create an identity of his own. In the House of the Scorpion, Matteo Alacrán is faced with the internal conflict of what his real identity is and the author interprets that he does not have his destiny chosen for him but he becomes his own person through his experiences.

Even at six years old, Matt is treated like the plague at the Alacran Estate. On page 42, Rosa dumps Matt in a cage full of sawdust. She said while doing this “That’s what dirty beasts get to live in,”, thus implying that Matt isn’t human in her eyes. On page 43 she says, “It’s such a sullen, evil-tempered animal,” to Willum, the doctor. Matt is treated this way for six months, and by then he is seven years old, until El Patron (the original Matteo, who at this point is 140 years old) requests to see him and sees the sores and rashes from the sawdust. At age 14, Steven tells Matt on page 226 “He’s livestock...All clones are classified as livestock because they’re grown inside cows. Cows can’t give birth to humans.” Even after being introduced as El Patron’s most important person, Matt is still treated as a “beast”, and an

ve you ever got treated badly because you are different? Matt did in the book, The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer. He got treated badly because he a clone. This book is about using livestock to clone human beings. It describes the behavior and relationship between human beings when they are born through normal way versus clones. The theme I think best is people treat others with disrespect just because they are different. The first evidence from the book is when Rosa mistreats Matt because she found out that he was a clone. The second evidence is that Steven, Emilia and Benito are unfriendly to Matt because he was a clone. The third evidence that support my theme is that Mr. Alacran and Felicia treats Matt very bad because

I think El Patron is an evil character because he turns people into eejits, was indirectly responsible for the Keepers, and he only used Matt for spare body parts. Three reasons I think this is because first of all, the book states, “El patron sold those people’s souls to the Devil! When they died, he plowed their bodies into the dirt for fertilizer. This shows that El Patron doesn't care about people, and would do whatever it takes to get

Family relationships and society play fundamental roles in how a child grows and makes their own choices. How they are seen and treated by society can influence how the child acts. From how they are raised, to what values and morals they are taught will determine the child’s reactions to obstacles that come up in life. I will be discussing some major events in the book that stood out to me as to why two men who basically grew up on the same block, ended up on very different paths.

follows the life of a boy named Matt Alacrán throughout the first fourteen years of his life. In the country Opium during a futuristic time period, Matt lives with his “mom like figure” named Celia, who is actually a caretaker and housekeeper at the residence of El Patron. El Patrón is a very wealthy man who is 148 years old. He manages to live for so long due to his production of eejits, which are clones that he relies on for transplants. With his need to live, Matt is created as a clone. The everyday circumstances that everyone else face, become magnified to a much greater extent for Matt since he’s a clone. Since Matt is technically El Patrons life, he gets special, precautious treatment. This special treatment vanishes when Celia and Matt ally their forces to cease the transferring of organs between Matt and El Patron. El Patron died and Tam Lin, the bodyguard of Matt, was ordered to kill Matt. Since they were close, Tam Lin helped Matt escape to quickly get across the border. Matt just makes it across the border but is put into a home with other orphans. There he makes friends with three boys named Chacho, Fidelto, and Ton-Ton who are partners in his escape. When they finally escape from the boneyard, Matt reunites with Celia to be told that he is not a clone anymore, but a human that is now the owner of Opium.

Matt experiences lots of loyalty and love when he is with Tam Lin. In the beginning of the book, when Matt chooses Tam Lin to be his bodyguard, he did not know that he would also become his best friend. Tam Lin would do anything for Matt, even if it includes saving his life, which he did. When El Patron died, and Matt was no longer useful, Tam Lin was ordered to kill him, but instead, he helped him survive and set up a plan for him to escape. At first, Matt had thought that Tam Lin Was