El Patron Character Analysis

Not only does Luis Cruz’s choices substantially affect Paul’s development in Tangerine, but he impacts Paul’s personality and choices too. To explain, one of the countless choices Luis chooses is to talk to Erik about punching his younger brother: “Erik and his group had gathered up their gear and were preparing to leave. Luis stood in their path, like the brave sheriff of a town full of cowards” (Bloor 211). When Luis decides to stand up to Erik, Paul is influenced to be undaunted by his elder brother. Continuing, Luis also improves Paul’s life by showing him his family’s tangerine nursery: “He said, ‘Look around you. This is a nursery’” (Bloor 164). As Paul journeys through the nursery, he becomes passionate about the trees and loves the

At first Matt had no idea how to get in, until Ezperanza explained, “You can’t have two versions of the same person at the same time. … But when the original dies the copy takes its place.” (Farmer 367). Ezperanza was saying how Matt was El Parton and due to his DNA being identical to El Parton he could get in. Maria then asked, “Matt’s human?” and Ezperanza answered, “He always was.” (Farmer 367). Matt was never not human, instead he was a copy of someone, like a twin. Once Matt finally understood that he was human the whole time, he started to believe in himself much more. This made him confident, and made him realize that only he was capable of going in there due to his relation to El Patron, which means that he is the only one who able to put a stop to this insanity.

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

This can be seen when El Patrón keeps Matt like a normal boy so he can experience his youth through Matt. He thinks nothing of it when the decision was made, but El Patrón broke one of the only laws regarding clones. When a clone is born it is injected with something to make it go brain dead so it can be treated like an animal and with nobody to love it, can be used as a living set of spare parts. This is because clones have the same strengths and weaknesses as the person they are a clone of, they can use this to their advantage, as Matt did. Matt knew that el patron was greedy and thought he deserves the lives his siblings lost. Matt pieced together the clues he discovered and found why he was alive, the real reason, not the disguise. With the help of the people who loved him, which he would never have had if he was brain dead, he managed to escape, leaving El Patron to

All over the book it says how Matt is acting like El Patron. Also the next book is about the lord of Opium and since El Patron died that means Matt is the lord now. When in the orphanage is says how Maat acts like El Patron, and during the birthday party. In the birthday party Matt says to Maria to kiss him, and El Patron agreed with him.

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

“Don´t be afraid to start over.”All immigrants need to know this. Being an immigrant can cause many challenges, you have to leave your old life behind and your memories. Esperanza Ortega in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan was an immigrant from Mexico. She had a lot of challenges as an immigrant. Before she immigrated to America she was a wealthy young girl in Mexico with servants. A series of tragedies forced her and he mama to move to America. This leads her to not be able to anything that a servant would do. Learning how to do chores was one of her challenges. In addition, she had two other challenges they were Mama getting Valley Fever, and the Mexican immigrants facing discrimination.

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

In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza is the main character who is the protagonist. Esperanza is a thirteen-year-old child that has been faced with more tragic events from the age of nine to thirteen than some may experience their whole life time. Her character is very smart, determined, and compassionate just like some of the kids you may know. The author does a great job with allowing the reader to get inside Esperanza’s head to understand her thinking and logic. The author uses Esperanza life to encourage children who may be going through some of the same experience, that they could make it through to. Although Esperanza is just a normal kid trying to have fun, the constant tragic events in her life forces her to mature instantly becoming a strong young adult. This paper will discuss how Esperanza grew up and some of Esperanza reactions that shows her growth in maturity, while exploring some of the conflicts Esperanza experienced that causes her to change her thinking.

The key to unlocking and understanding Marisol by Jose Rivera is in recognizing and examining the 3 different worlds Marisol works her way through over the course of the play. The main character, Marisol Perez, dies in the very first scene and spends the rest of the play trying to pass onto her impending afterlife. Additionally, Marisol is a play about Puerto Rican culture and religion and how it affects not only the life of an individual, but also the death of our main character.

Soldiers supply the violence, those in charge – the heads - supply the control. Tagalog-speaking and math-inept Juan Rico is a fairly bland character at the beginning of Starship Troopers whom enlisted into the Terran Federation Army on a whim; the desire to escape his father’s suffocating standards and the pressure of both of Rico’s friends enlisting quickly forces our main character to sign up. By the end of his saga, Juan “Johnny” Rico morphs from an inexperienced fresh-faced teen into a cold, calculating warrior soldiering his way up the ranks of the Army. Without being fully aware of his own transition, we witness Johnny’s descent, and his decision to join did nothing but contribute to the apathetic, violent, colonizing, and fascist motives

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

Throughout book there was always one character that stood out more than the others. He was known as El Patron he is the leader of the country Opium. Also the creator of Matt. Without El Patron Matt wouldn't have been created since Matt is El Patron’s clone. But there was more to El Patron he had quite an interesting personality. He was selfish, mean, and very greedy. He wanted many things and wasn't happy with the one life he’s given in the story “The House of the Scorpion” it states, “I gave you these things, Mi Vida. You...Owe...me,” (Farmer 239). This shows his selfishness and him being greedy because he can't be content with one life. So he has to created human like clones to then kill them for his sake. To have live already 8 lives yet still wanting to live more. He had more of a very greedy personality always wanting things never really appreciative. The story also asserts, “El Patron set great

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ Mr. Kapasi , the main character, seems to be a person with mixed feelings. He does not seem to have fixed stand neither in his job nor on his thoughts. His thoughts and experience are structured by the strict cultural society of India. His hidden wants and desires suppressed by the community rules are looking for way to come out. The consequence is his changing thoughts and desires which at different parts of the story appear differently and brings

El Patron needs a new heart and Matt is the only supplier. He wants to believe that the old man loves and would never kill him; nevertheless, he has to face the truth. On page 218 it states, “No matter how treacherous El Patron had been, Matt loved the old man.” Discovering that El Patron only needs Matt for spare parts crushes the boy. He feels that his “accomplishments were a sham. It didn’t matter how intelligent he was” (216). Maria, Matt's childhood friend, tries to help him escape from the clutches of El Patron. While they are trying to figure out a plan she tells him “You’re not a dog. You’re so much, much more” (217). The truth about his purpose only discourages him, but he overcomes it and takes action. Though Matt is still hurt and