Symbolism In The House Of The Scorpion

“The Ceiling” is a short story by Kevin Brockmeier. “The Ceiling” is about an object that appears in the sky, continues to grow closer to the earth. At first, the object appears small, but quickly grew close enough to earth that eventually covered the entire city. The narrator’s denial is demonstrated through symbolism and first person imagery throughout the story.

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 Matt is a clone and this makes Matt bad and unwanted to the “normal” people. This makes Matt a bad person because he is not normal to hang around with people. Also, the conflict is that El Patron is using Matt as a way to stay alive. At the end of the story, Matt was now older and became leader of Mexico and opium. Another detail the happened at the end of the story is the everyone died except Celia, Mr. Ortega, Matt’s music teacher, and Daft Donald, who is a bodyguard of El Patron.

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 Fountain House” presents the idea of relinquishing for a loved one at any cost. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya weaves a dreamlike reality to capture a father’s conviction that his daughter can still live in spite of various medical professionals pronouncing her dead. The effect characterizes the father as delusional. The story’s pathetic symbolism emphasizes the heartbreaking situation of a father, so desperate to save his daughter that he is willing to commit the ultimate transgression.

In the story,The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is Matt. The main setting of the story is Opium, poppy fields that are between United States and the old Mexico. In the beginning of the story there is a boy named Matt and he lives in the poppy fields with a woman named Celia and he has never met anybody besides her. The main conflict in the book is that Matt is a clone and clones are looked down at and treated very poorly works but Matt is different. The solution is that Matt is El Patron’s,the ruler of Opium,clone so people don’t treat Matt as bad as other clones are treated. Also he doesn’t have the injection that destroy a clone’s brain. At the end of the story Matt returns to Opium after a long journey in Aztlan and is

The House of the Scorpion centers around the character of Matteo, or Matt as he’s more commonly referred to, and his struggles with identity. When discussing Matt’s identity, another character in the novel is integral to the discussion, El Patron. El Patron is the elephant in the room when it comes to Matt’s identity, because Matt is actually El Patron’s clone. Matt must face several conflicts that arise from his clone heritage. Throughout The House of the Scorpion, Matt must discover if he really has his own identity, if he can find or create his own identity, and if clones can have identities at all.

“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.

In the beginning a clone is born, his name is Matteo Alacran. He is the clone of El Patron, the Ruler of Opium. He will change over time. This will list and explain all of the changes Matteo Alacran Undergoes. These turning points are necessary for Matt to complete his journey in the Country of Opium.

People would not understands how it is to live the life of a clone without this book but despite the school boards recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides, fiction should remain in the schools curriculum due to them relating to real work problems like cloning, immigration and drugs, and money/power.power. Matt is as identical as a 130 year old when was 10. They like the same thing but one is feared and one is hated. He is hated because he is not normal he was not made like a real human,

Farmer strongly discusses the themes lies, slavery and science throughout the House of the Scorpion. Matt has been lied to since day one. He has always believed that Celia is his mother and he doesn’t know who his father is. Actually,

allowed to still shine only because it was bought into the family by a wife of

It pretty extraordinary that Owen’s family never forgive his father. That prove the reason why Owen just never give up looking for evidence for his father. Even his grandparents treated there son (Owen’s father) like crap.

“House of The Red Fish”, is a story about Tomi’s adventure as he searches for a way to raise his Papa’s Sampan, the Taiyo Maru, from the depths of the dock, where it was sunk by the U.S Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. To do this, Tomi uses many useful characteristics. Some of which include, loyalty, determination, and last, but certainly not least, his sneakiness. Loyalty: a trait many take advantage of.

From prisons to the public, everyone was itching to see what Houdini would do next in his career. Every act was more daring than the last. Six boiler workers challenged him to escape a “galvanized-iron hot-water tank,” which he “emerged fifty-five minutes later...his suit torn and dirty, his face bloody and his hands bruised” (Kasson 119). Not only did these challenges against water tanks, tires, and handcuffs prove his abilities as the fittest escape artist, it also proved him superior to modernity. These symbols of modern technology represented how modern man was feeling trapped by the industrialization. Houdini, against all powers of the latest technology, still came out on top.

Throughout the past, people expressed their emotions, thoughts, or struggles more fully using symbolism through works of arts. For example, Pablo Picasso, an artist known for his “Blue Period” that occurred from 1900 to 1904, expressed his sadness and deep regrets through a series of paintings using different shades of blue after learning about the suicide of his friend (“Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period”). Another example is Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican painter during the 20th century. She showed her pain through a series of paintings of self-portraits, which often had symbolism of physical and psychological wounds (“Frida Kahlo Biography”). People still use symbolism to express their thoughts and feelings or connect with readers through their works of art till this present day. An example of this is an American fiction author by the name of Danielle Evans. Evans wrote multiple short stories and debuted it into a collection known as Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. In this short story collection, she describes her characters to be those who wrestle with topics like racial issues or broken families (Brown). She also