The Pandinus Imperator a.k.a. Emperor Scorpion

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.

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.

I read the book “Scorpion Shards” that was written by Neal Shusterman. This book or plot is really fast pace, unique, and keeps you thinking and on the edge of your seat for the entire book. You never really know how the characters make their decisions or how they’re going to end up at the end. In this book six teens suffer from supernatural tragedies or powers that were caused by a supernova sixteen light-years away that eliminated the night sky. Dillon, Deanna, Winston, Tori, Michael, and Lourdes are the six teenagers that were affected by the supernova. These six have never met each other before, but they all unexplainably meet each other.

The House of the Scorpion Author’s Craft Essay “He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted” (70) This example of dialogue from The House of the Scorpion is a powerful metaphor repeated throughout the book and is an accurate comparison with El Patrón. El Patrón grew more powerful until he controlled a whole pseudo-country, but his twisted branches symbolize his corruption and greed. The House of the Scorpion uses symbolism to develop El Patrón’s greed.

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Waking up in the early hours of the morning for school sometimes seems like the hardest thing to do, mostly it’s because most of us are not getting enough sleep and getting enough sleep is a biological necessity. Sleep is just as important as the air you breath. Teenagers need on average nine and ¼ hours of sleep per night in order for high performance and brain development but the average amount of sleep for teens is 7 hours or less a night.

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Nancy Farmer’s “The House of the Scorpion” demonstrates how the alternative anti-utopian reality may look like. Its central figure, the clone Matt, faces the obstacles and challenges on the way to approaching identity thanks to the society’s atrocities as a consequence of considering him to be an animal. He achieves the significant results in the course of thinking’s development that assists in his acquiring independence from the prejudiced system. Still, in spite of the successful separating far away from the idea of imitating the original’s pattern, the character of Matt does nothing for improving the existing contradictions and unfairnesses as if he were an unthinking copy with no chances for advancement.

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“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.

“A terrible pain lanced through matt's feet.” (p.19) The author, Nancy Farmer, uses this to show the reader so many things including that when she talks about the scorpion it means something more than just the story. When she says this line in the story she uses it basically to be blunt. She uses this to not only mean what it truly does and add depth to the story, but she also shows that this is used to mean that the scorpion is dangerous and will her Matt and/ or everyone else really bad. When the author uses the scorpion or even brings it up you should predict that something good is about to happen. In the text the author describes the scorpion as a terrible thing. When the author takes the line above and puts it into the text the surrounding

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