The Scorpion Quotes

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.

Meanwhile, Amy Salinsky, Russ Thompson, Ron Thompson and I were walking through the towering jungle that was our backyard. Suddenly…. We see this monstrous machine with blades coming at us and we run away and Russ tells me twerp you better start running for the hills if you wanna live and Ron said bro stop being a jerk..The fierce wind scaring my sister Amy, and then Russ tells everyone to follow him and then knowing that we could die we run the opposite direction of this thing with monstrous blades. Then something or someone scared the thing away.

The House of the Scorpion is a science-fiction novel that is written by Nancy Farmer. The setting of this story is the country of Opium. This country is controlled and owned by the drug lord El Patron; El Patron grows the drug Opium at the Alacran Estate, and then he sells it to many people around the globe and in return he gets large amounts of money. He in turn makes it so that nobody can ever leave the estates without El Patrons conscience. This novel is all about power, how much El Patron has, and how much power Matt will have once he is the ruler of the Alacran Estate.

The House Of The Scorpion is a science fiction novel about clones and many other interesting topics. Matteo Alacran, the main character, could be described as a hero in many different ways. Matt could be described as your average hero like those in books and movies because many plots have the hero growing up with a rough childhood and is mostly isolated from others. When Matt was young he was abused and locked away from everyone, didn't have nearly any friends, and by the time he was fourteen, he had dealt with near-death experiences, hatred and prejudice, and a lot of violence. Average superheroes also have a power that makes them different from everyone else. But in this case, Matt is a clone. For almost all of

A long time ago in a plain forest a group of squirrels was sitting around talking then the bear showed up. When he showed up all one of the bears said here comes the weirdo and they all laughed. The squirrels picked on him because they had fur and they didn't. The bear got really tired of the squirrels picking on him and he wanted it to stop so he went to the swamp and ask the wise one. The wise one was a small slimy frog that knew everything. The bear asked the frog why don’t i have fur like the squirrels I really want to have fur. The frog said if you want to get fur it will be a big risk to take. The bear replied I will do anything for fur then the frog said you will have to climb to the

Friendships will always come and go, and the ones worth keeping can often be the hardest to find. The people who are loyal and everlasting, forever having their friends backs and looking out for them, are generally the ones with the most love for their friends. There are also the fair weather friends who flee the minute they find out the truth. In the science fiction dystopian novel, The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, Matt is a character who interacts with every kind of person, ones who tear away at the first glimpse of who he is and ones who never leave his side. Up until the age of five, Matt was raised by a woman named Celia, someone he considers to be his mother. Matt is the clone of a very formidable drug lord, El Patrón, who

Loyalty is essential for Matt in The House of the Scorpion. So many things in his world are erratic, making him rely on the people who are everlastingly steadfast in spite of any bumps down the road. Because of his social status, Matt is unable to make many deep connections with people as they seem to hate him. The relationships he does have and the connections he does make are the most important, as the bonds he has with these people can never be broken. We depend on one another, without even knowing it. Unconsciously, people become accustomed to the relationships in their daily life, not realizing how much they need the people they talk to every day. When someone does not interact with others regularly, instead conversing with the shadows,

in a world where talking crickets and painting insects exist, there was a house. inside the house there lived a family of 4, james, his mom, and his dad and then there was marvin. Little Marvin was a cricket, he lived inside a little cupboard inside the kitchen of the house. Marvin loved to paint and dance. One day he was discovered by a little boy named James, when james first saw marvin he was scared and tried to squash him, but then marvin started to speak. After talking marvin and james became best friends.

He finds a guide named Romilayu, the two of them travel for days until they finally reach the Arnewi tribe. While visiting the tribe he meets and befriends the prince Itelo and learns of their frog infestation in the water supply and decides to do something about it. "Meanwhile my heart was all stirred and I swore to myself every other minute that I would do something, I would make a contribution here. 'I hope I may die,' I said to myself, 'if I don't drive out, exterminate, and crush those frogs.'" (p. 68) Henderson goes through phases where he would rather die than not do something correct. He makes a bomb to kill the frogs but ends up destroying the wall holding the water supply together and drains the entire reserve. He later leaves the Arnewi tribe in search of a new one with different meanings of

One day while I was hunting, I met a man named Orion who had two dogs with him. Their names were Canis Major and Canis Minor. We became close friends. We hunted and were always together. My brother Apollo had grown jealous of our relationship. One night, Orion dreamed of a scorpion that had skin that couldn’t be pierced. He fought it all night, and before he could get stabbed in the heart he awoke. When he got out of his house, he saw the same scorpion in his dream. He started fighting the scorpion, and had ended up having to jump into the sea to try and escape it. Meanwhile, Apollo had told me that a man named Candaeon had sexually assaulted one of my maids. He told me that the man was trying to escape by swimming across the sea. In fury,

The murderers that Macbeth hired to kill Banquo have done their job and go to tell Macbeth what they have done. One murderer interrupts the feast that is taking place and explains that Banquo has been killed but his son has escaped. But Macbeth does seem to be too worried, he thinks Fleance is too young pose a threat to him. Macbeth compares Banquo and his son to a father snake to its child, using a biblical reference to how the snake is clever creature. The snake theme continues to be present in the text. As used by Lady Macbeth in Act I scene 6 “But be the serpent under ‘t…” She wants Macbeth to look like he is the friend is everyone when in reality he is plotting against them in secret. Also we see some more religious imagery with snakes,

Long ago, but somehow in the future, there lived a frog named Woggle, and his much more interesting brother named, Wiggles. One day Woggle and Wiggles where tired of living out in the wilderness, they didn’t want to be like the other frogs they wanted to live in city, because they knew the city would contain many opportunities, but they lack the knowledge of the dangers in the city. They eventually made up their minds and they went to the big city. When they arrived at the city they didn’t like what they saw, large trucks, loud traffic and crowds of people, they didn’t like any of it. Though it was bad they still had hope, so Woggle took a deep breath and took his first step out into the street, but then, all of the sudden a runaway train burst through a building and ran onto the street. Woggle screamed and sacked the train.

Lennie watched as the Frog bounded between the Lilly pads on the water, he saw the frog’s eyes dart suddenly, as it sensed its prey was near. It sank under the water and let the current pull it down stream and then suddenly it jumped out of the water like a cork comes out of a wine bottle, its eyes gleamed and its tongue darted out of its mouth and in a flash the fly was gone. “That’ll be me in a sec” mumbled Lennie hopelessly. There was a faint buzzing sound then the frog was gone as quickly as it had come. Silence once again fell on the river much to Lennie’s disappointment, he liked not having to think of the mornings happenings.

Although the fable of the scorpion and the frog is only presented twice in the movie, the fable acts as a central theme to the overarching plot. The actions of many characters, but specifically Fergus, can be explained by their “nature” as either a frog or scorpion. Initially, Fergus is surrounded by the

Rather the frog has nothing important to say and it words are meaningless. Emily’s sense of humor certain stings the point across and is one of her great attributes to her style and writing that shines