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Character Analysis: The House Of Scorpions

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Matt is talented, loving, and caring.The House of Scorpions took place in the future, Mexico, opium, and the Big House.Matt has known any of this for many of the years he has lived he has only known the little house in the poppy fields.Matt later finds kids who want to play so he adventures out and gets into some trouble. Matt is a clone who has never known anyone besides Celia.Matt being a clone is not a good thing.But Matt does good as a clone because he doesn 't know what he can really do.Also Matt is something different than a normal clone.Matt isn 't one of those bad clones every body would see on t.v because he doesn 't know the damage clones can do. Many clones are injected with this drug inside their brain, Matt is

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