Summary Of Nancy Farmer's NovelThe House Of The Scorpion

In Harold Bell Wright’s novel “The Shepherd of the Hills,” setting plays a tremendous role in creating an effective story line and contribute multiple aspects to enhance the accountability of the story. Setting is one of the most valuable aspects of a successful novel and plays a part in creating a sense of realness to the reader. Winifred Madison, an author of multiple novels, says that “One of the joys of reading is that it takes you somewhere else or, by comparison, makes the place where you live more understandable” (1). “The Shepherd of the Hills” has a setting that the author personally connects to the real-world location. Just as Daniel Howitt was an outsider, Harold Bell Wright visited the Ozarks as a stranger and experienced the

In Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion, Matteo Alacran, a clone, discovers that everybody is different. To start with, Matt is El Patron’s clone. El Patron is 143 years old. In this book, a piece of land between Mexico and the United States is called Dreamland or Opium, and is owned by El Patron, and the Alacran family.

“She walks, she talks, she cleans, she works, she IS, but she is NOT, all at once. She is here, but part of her is elsewhere for eternity” (Anonymous). This quote by an anonymous person illustrates a woman who is rooted in who she is but dreams to be someone else. She dreams to be another person, far away from her dreary life. Sandra Cisneros establishes that many young girls within the Hispanic culture represented in The House on Mango Street are forced into roles they do not wish to take, resulting in a loss of identity and ultimately, a sense of powerlessness in the girl without anyone to show her how to be powerful.

In the story “The house of the scorpions”, written by Nancy farmer, the main character is Matt. The main setting is Opium or what used to be Mexico. In the beginning it shows the lab were Matt was harvested. The main conflict is that Matt is a clone and mostly everyone in Opium is being mean to him, like Tom and Rosa. The solution is that Matt goes to San Luis to start a new life there.

The traveller embarks on a journey, backwards in time that demonstrates that the past is a more civil place than the future. Similarly to the traveller in Flames and Dangling Wire, the journeyer in Gardens of the Night sees that the future can be a destructive place, going against the idea that the world will continue to advance to a better society. The extended sentences mirror the surreal qualities of Coral City, as compared to “the regimes, and the rules and the regulations of government and state” which his present civilisation is constricted by. These features of present time are listed with conjunctions, separating the prominent issues, rather than creating fluidity with the use of commas. On his travels, the traveller has to “put on my disguise” to cover the truths that have polluted the present time. From this, it can be drawn that the traveler is ashamed of his origins, and has to wear a disguise free of lies and destruction. Because of exposure to a civilisation that seems above human nature, the more developed time of disputes and mass destruction is an unsatisfactory and incongruous depiction of how the world should operate. The traveller accepts this, although he has to cope with the disillusionment of returning to the “guardianship of institutions” that plague the future world. Gardens of the Night has points of high modality, emphasising the scope of damage present in the future. For instance, the traveller acknowledges that

The setting includes place and time. Louise Erdrich’s A Wedge of Shade and A Reptile gives details about different locations and times that collaborate with the characters and stories. The settings describe numerous vivid scenes throughout the story that makes the reader visualize what the protagonists are going through and helps to deliver the desired message. Settings can also be identified as symbols for important ideas. Ideas help transmit the desired message to the reader.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.", says Martin Luther King Jr. Truer words have never been spoken, for when ignorance is bliss, there is a steep price to pay. In The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer creates a character named Matteo Alacrán, and for the first half of the book, he is ignorance personified. When Matt learns the truth about his identity, his bubble of bliss is shattered, but perhaps it was for his own good. The great poet Thomas Gray writes, "Where ignorance is bliss, / Tis' folly to be wise." Yes, ignorance is bliss, but it is just as much of a "folly" as wisdom.

In the poem “Choices” by Allen Steble and the book Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers a common theme was presented. Throughout the poem “Choices”, it was explaining that everyone was a choice in life to do what they want. In the book Scorpions, Jamal is a twelve year old boy growing up in Harlem, his brother is in jail for murder, everywhere Jamal goes he seems to get into some sort of trouble. He is bullied at school by a bigger boy, labeled by his teacher as trouble maker and his brother tells his gang that Jamal needs to be the leader of the Scorpion gang. Jamal and his best friend Tito are later found in a dangerous situation. The theme of “Choices” and Scorpions are related. A common theme between these two is making decisions.

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.

The House of Scorpion is a science fiction, utopian, and dystopian novel. This story is dark and twisted, but a hopeful story. The book is broken up into different parts, Youth 0 to 6, Middle Age 7 to 11, Old Age 12 to 14, Age 14, and La Vida Nueva. The main protagonist is about a young clone name Matt. He grows up in a dystopian world under control of a drug lord. Ironically, this drug lord happens to be the man that Matt was cloned from. El Patrón, who is the drug lord, cloned the protagonist to harvest his organs in order to keep him alive. This novel tells you a story of Matt’s corrupted life from his childhood all the way when makes peace with his country.

All throughout this story, Farmer uses descriptive language to make her sentences more detailed to introduce the new scenes, settings, and characters. Some examples of this in The House of the Scorpion are “The room was dark except for a faint, yellow light filtering through the bars of the window.” (Farmer 29). In this example, she uses “faint, yellow light” instead of just saying that there was a light on somewhere, just barely lighting up the room. This allows readers to picture this room that he has to stay in and they can see how he feels. He explains how he never sleeps alone and how the room’s walls are bare. Another example from the text is “Hundreds of stars lay in a bright smear across a velvety, black sky. It was the Milky Way...” (Farmer 25). This example uses “velvety, black sky”. That paints a better picture in the reader’s mind by describing what the sky looked like, instead of just saying that the sky was black. That quote introduces a setting that is calm and relaxing. A “velvety, black sky” sounds so peaceful and beautiful, therefore, makes it relaxing. Both of these quotes are good examples of how she uses descriptive language in the book to introduce a new setting.

We should always have somebody to turn to when we need them. In this instance, we can always to turn to family and friends. Our family and friends are who we talk to when times get tough. Without them we’d be hopeless and lost. The book The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, is a book that shows people how much we actually need our family and friends. The main character Matt Alacran is a clone in a very much hated community. In this book he faces reality when he is destined for his death. Matt, with the help from family and friends, escapes the malicious country Opium. He faces many problems down the road but he then proceeds to try to overrule the country and stop its twisted acts. Within this book the author conveys the theme friends

Growing up and chasing your goals can be tough for some people because of their financial status or surroundings and more for a child that has to go through it at a young age. But what actually takes people far to succeed in life is to work diligently and to never capitulate. Esperanza Cordero, a girl who dreams are significant, is the main character on The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who represents the females of her needy neighborhood who desire to enhance and change themselves despite their surroundings and restrictions while she struggles to confront her neighborhood’s poverty. Because of her Mexican heritage, Esperanza hopes to change the typical role of women in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the book, Esperanza goes through several changes to seek her identity, maturity and independence. Throughout the novel Esperanza evolves from an immature, innocent girl to a mature young lady because of the experiences of having to deal with abuse, poverty and the fact that she wanted to be distinct.

“Matt stared at an pin fastened to the women’s collar, a silver scorpion with it’s tail curved up. Beneath the scorpion was a name tag that said Rosa. Matt didn’t feel well enough to talk.” The environment in this book isn’t the best, Matt lives in an future Mexico run by an drug lord, EL’ Patron, which Matt, the protagonist, is an clone of. In the book, The House of The Scorpion, Nancy Farmer symbolizes the scorpion as dangerous. Nancy also uses italicized words and spanish words in her story to keep us hooked and to keep us in the story and thinking deeper.

Everyone needs friends who they can trust and rely on to always have their back. The House of the Scorpion is a dystopian fiction novel written by Nancy Farmer, is about a clone, named Matt, of the powerful drug lord, El Patron. When he is brought into a world ruled by El Patron, he is hated by everyone in the big house, except for a sweet girl named Maria, who lightens Matt’s day with just her presence, his bodyguard who becomes more like his father, and Celia, the woman who has taken care of Matt since he was made into a clone. He learns what it is like to live in a world full of social hierarchy and in his adventure he goes from the top to the bottom and everywhere in between. He is constantly being judged on who he is and is learning more about his identity, though mostly learns about love and loyalty . In this adventure of The House of the Scorpions, Matt finds that loyalty with friends is one of the most important things to have. Farmer shows many aspects that point to this theme.