In The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer. Our main character Matt at a young age, is raised by Celia, his caretaker, in an old shack. He is taught to be more caring, and grateful for what he has. We find out later that he is a direct clone of the cold, fearful, and powerful drug lord El Patron. Matt and Celia are then taken into the big house. With a whole new life that Matt is not used to, he is faced with having to deal with a dysfunctional family while also being El Patron’s clone. Due to Matt being a direct clone of him, he has inherited his horrible personality. Even though he looks up to El Patron, we can see that the small childhood Celia gave him that Matt is seen as more influenced by the environment and people around …show more content…
Since Matt is a clone, he is discriminated against by others because of his differences, but since he’s El Patron’s direct clone, everyone must treat him the same way they’d treat the old man. Matt’s hatred toward Tom is apparent this whole chapter but Maria stands against it. Because of this, later in the chapter she throws his present. Matt, being very angry, forces her to pick it up and give him a kiss as well. With El Patron by his side, he makes hateful remarks such as “Make your women toe the line.”(108). In the end, Maria is forced to give Matt a kiss. But in the moment, he starts regretting his choices but mustn’t back out now since it is far too late(110). Later in the book, on chapter 12, page 112. Not only does Matt explain how remorseful he is of his actions, he vows that he must make it up to Maria. I believe I can use this to support my claim. Although Matt’s genetic personality came out during the huge scene. I believe that only happened due to the normalized hatred around him, but being treated as an equal to someone like El Patron, like a higher-up gave him an ego for a short while. Celia taught Matt to be kind and caring at a young age, he is more prone to being emotional and more caring during these situations, which is why he’d feel more sorry rather than a Matt if he was raised by El
Matt cared for his dead son but also the living people around him and when something that tragic happens it is sometimes really hard to remember that there are other people still here with you.
“María snuggled against Matt, and he felt amazingly good. He realized he was happy and that he hadn’t been in a long time.” This shows that María is the only person that makes Matt truly happy because he was with Tam Lin and Celia but he only realized he was happy when he was with María. María makes Matt truly happy which is only something that she
In the novel The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, an important symbol is music. For Matt music represents individuality and comfort. The first support of this idea is in chapter nine when Matt tells us (the readers) what music does for him. "The ability to create music filled him with a joy too large to contain.
Living in the Frome’s home she had to learn and adapt to a lifestyle she wasn’t custom to. Being that she was impoverished it caused her to behave sometimes inappropriately because she wasn’t used to anything. First, Mattie came to live in Starkfield because she was left with nothing after the death of her parents. Zeena her cousin was the only family member who was willing to take her in.(Shmoop) Mattie’s duty was to take care of Zeena and tend to the
From the first introduction of Butch, it was apparent Mattie was attracted to him, “Everything about Butch was like puffed air and cotton candy…” (Naylor 14). Having an ominous aurora surrounding him, he used Mattie’s lack of experience with the emotion of curious desire to have sex with her, leaving her to fall pregnant and essentially
Did Matt do the right thing in murdering Richard? Both characters have been given insight on what has become of them and their
Josie Pharoah Ms. Czajkowski English 9 Due date: 3/12/23 Serpent King's Argumentative Essay In the novel The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner, we are introduced to a character named Lydia. Lydia is displayed as a hardworking and motivated person. But as the novel progresses she proves not to be a good friend to the other characters.
The House of the Scorpion is a science fiction novel written by Nanny Farmer and is meant to be for young adults. This book tells the story of Matt, a young clone owned by a powerful drug lord El Patron. Matt later finds out the truth about where he comes from and faces challenges to try to find his place in society. This book has many adult subjects like abuse and drugs in this book, yet some would criticize that it is a bit much for children to read about. though Farmer's intent for this is to make kids aware of different types of dangers.
Countdown Response The YA novel, House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer is about a clone named Matt who was the only remaining survivor created as an experiment by a scientist named Eduardo, working to clone human cells. Ever since his birth, Matt lived with his caretaker, Celia, living a warm and cozy life in his cabin near the poppy field. But once Celia left one day, everything changed. Matt was taken to the Alacra estate without Celia’s knowledge, and had to survive through the brutal treatment of the members of the Alacran estate.
Within The Descendants, Matt King evolves from his apathetic self to an empathic character to his family and friends. According to According to Frans De Waal, empathy is “the process by which we gather information about someone else” (De Waal, 86). In other terms, empathy is the ability for one to understand another’s feelings. Empathy is commonly mistaken for sympathy. Sympathy refers to feeling for another’s situation and wanting to improve one’s condition.
Matt is the character I the story that is very curious and wants to see what will happen if he does this or that. Matt is caring and he shows this when he apologizes to Kira for not being able to save memorable things from her house fire. Matt also shows that he is very caring when he was sad for Kira's loss and tried to do everything to help or make her feel better. I would recognize Matt as a cancer sign because he shows much care and the cancer sign describes, well caring for family or friends. He says sorrowfully, " I tried to save stuff
Robin said that Matt knew everything from the book but he never had the first hand experience, it hit Matt very hard. Robin frankly told Matt
They remove her from the bar, and then Amaia and Rafa go to his place in a fit of love- only for her to fall asleep. She slips out the next day, but leaves her purse behind- which sends Rafa on his journey to confess his love for her. Before he leaves to find Amaia- Rafa tries to call her father, Koldo, but the phone died. While on the bus to see Amaia, Rafa meets a woman named Merche. He pretends to be Basque due to his anxiety over how Basque people treat others.
It made it clear to people that something was not right when the pickle dish was brought down from the shelf. In a way Mattie symbolized the cat when the pickle dish was destroyed. The cat knocked over the pickle dish, which symbolised the destruction of their marriage. This shows that when the cat destroyed the pickle dish, Mattie also destroyed Ethan and Zeena’s
The everlasting love between Matt and Maria is incredible. Matt and Maria knew each other since they were around six years of age. They grew up together after Maria and her sister discovered that Matt was in Celia’s old home. Emilia, Maria’s older sister, heard that he was a clone from Steven who she was forced to be married to. When Maria lured Matt out of the house, they soon became good friends and grew up longing to see one another once again.