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, Matt being a clone and his existence. The resolution of this story is Matt reigning El Patron’s ‘throne’ and becoming the powerful drug lord. Matt would have been killed, if it wasn’t for El Patron’s passing. There are many despicable characters …show more content…
This shows Matt’s disbelief and sort of a sadness. He saw the emptiness in a used-to-be person, with feelings. Although Rosa didn’t show kindness to Matt, she was a human. She had a soul somewhere. Matt saw how horrible it was to become an eejit by seeing Rosa. A lifeless, brainless, and ‘empty’ eejit. This book has many connections and personal similarities to my family and me. First of all, the culture and Mexican descent in the book is the same as my family. In the book, El Patron was very poor and from Mexico. According to the book, The House of the Scorpion, it states, “‘During Cinco de Mayo the ranchero had a celebration. --- The mayor of our village - dressed in a fine black and silver suit - rode on a white horse and threw money to the crowd. How we scrambled for the coins! How we rolled in the dirt like pigs! But we needed the money’” (Farmer 232-233). This is very similar to my Papa. Like El Patron, my grandfather was from Mexico and lived in a poor family. Him and his family traveled to America for a better life, farming. Second, the holidays celebrated in this book is also celebrated by culture. As claimed, “‘We’re so lucky! Of all the days we could’ve come, we picked El Dia de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.’ -- She put out shoes for the Wise Men to leave gifts at Christmas. She colored eggs for Easter. She served roast turkey on Thanksgiving and heart-shaped cakes on Saint Valentine’s Day” (Farmer 349). My family and I celebrate all if these
In the story, “The House of the Scorpion” were so many amazing cliff hangers. That made you want to read more and more. The overall main character was a boy named Matt. When being introduced to the story Matt was six years of age. He lived in a small house out in the middle of a poppy field, In a country called Opium. But there's a catch, Matt isnt a real boy. He’s a clone and was created in a lab and given birth by a cow. Throughout his life he wasn't treated very nice for being a clone. Eventually things start to look up for him and end’s up being the new leader of Opium.
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
In the novel, The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, we see the journey of one boy, named Matt Alacran. His life is turned upside down all because of his loneliness and curiosity. Going from ages 0 to 14, we are able to see what it means to be human and the value of life through the eyes of a clone. In the beginning of The House of the Scorpion, we see a scientist named Eduardo who is trying to grow 36 human cells, but in the end only one survives. That one cell is Matt, the clone of a drug lord of Opium named El Patron. From ages zero to six, Matt lives a life away from everybody with Celia, his caretaker, who works in the House of Alacran. As the novel continues, he is discovered by the kids who live in the House. From this point
In the story, “The House of the Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is named Matt. The story takes place in the future around Mexico in a city named Opium. The main problem in the book is Matt is a clone and people do not like clones because clones act weird because they have an injection when they are first made that corrupts their body and makes them do things that humans don’t normally do. But Matt is different, he didn’t get the injection but people still think he is like the other clones, disgusting and brain-dead. The problem is solved when everyone is at a party for an old man named El Patron. He died and is having a party thrown in memory of him and El Patron left a note that told everyone to drink a certain wine but the wine was poisoned. Everyone died except for Matt, his “mother” Celia, his friend Maria, and a few others. Everyone is dead so the few that survived decide to start a new life where no one knows who they really are.
In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies, written by Julia Alvarez, one of the main characters, Minerva, shows many different types of courage throughout the whole story. The novel is about the true story of how a family is dominated by their countries dictator and the daughters attempt to free themselves and their family.
In the book, The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the protagonist, Matteo Alacrán was not born but harvested. As the book goes more in depth, Matt has an unbearable final battle and figures out his true identity, which turns him into the hero that he becomes.
Matteo Alacrán is a clone, which are the roadkill of the land called Opium in the book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Matteo, also known as Matt throughout the story, is the clone of the Lord of Opium, who we later find out is a very evil man. At a young age, he had no friends besides his guardian, Celia, and lived in an isolated place in the farms of Opium. When he was six years old, he is found by 3 children. Steven is the original Matteo Alacran’s Great-Great-Grandson, while Emilia and Maria are the children of the Senator of the United States. At first sight, they believe Matt is an eejit, which is like a zombie, until Matt breaks the window and jumps out, landing on glass and passing out.
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.
Many Mexican people have preserved and still do many of their ancestors’ traditions. Tradition plays a big role in my family for example: the food we eat, the music we listen to, what we dance to and what we celebrate to. I wanted a sweet sixteen but of course being Mexican my parents said no. Being in the Mexican culture tradition is that when you turn 15 you’re supposed to have a Quinceanera it symbolizes that you are no longer a kid but you are now a young women. Many people think a Quinceanera is just a party but the real tradition is to have a church mass. Since I am catholic that consists of me going to church and thanking God.
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is a science fiction novel centering around a clone named Matt, who is an exact copy of the mighty drug lord El Patrón. In the futuristic society where clones are despised with a passion and
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 dealers, El Patron. Besides only a few characters of the story, everyone despises him and is disgusted being close to him as well because he is a clone, whose status is lower than a cockroach. Due to being a clone, the reason he is alive and not turned into an eejit (people with computer chips in their brains and acts like zombies), is to be used as spare body parts for El patron when his organs stop working. The solution is that El Patron is dead and all of his successors are too. At the end of the story, Matt becomes the new lord of opium.
If you didn’t have friends, would you be able to live a valuable and meaningful life?
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.
As I now celebrate Halloween in America, going out and dressing up, I don’t forget about “el Dia de los Muertos”, although I am not in Mexico I have brought the celebration back home, I pray for my great grandparents and other late family members and friends. I try to incorporate both cultures in my life and I have realized that I am creating my own traditions with combining
In Mexico religion and culture interact in a daily basis to create the complexity of the Mexican lifestyle. Traditions like “Dia de muertos” interact with Catholicism in a way where the tradition is respected without offending the catholic beliefs. Since Catholicism take really negative any interaction with magic, superstition or other religions, the tradition grew and adapted to be about honoring and remembering our death relatives who die and went to heaven. (Pages 1-2)