The House of the Scorpion Essays

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Fascinating and insightful, Nancy Farmer’s book The House of the Scorpion holds the power to captivate any audience with the tale of a young boy named Matteo Alacran. Being a clone, Matteo, called Matt, faces many perilous and persistent challenges that force him to change the way he thinks and acts. Affected immensely by the other characters in the story, Matt learns that not everyone gets what they deserve. Throughout this story of prejudice, danger, and

Will the clone Matteo Alacran escape or will his life be taken by a powerful drug lord? In the book the House Of The Scorpion wrote by Nancy Farmer is about a clone. The clone is ruled by a powerful drug lord who wants to use his body parts for his life. The greatest gift that you can give is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Acceptance is something Matt Alacran struggles with and he needs a lot of it. Matt the clone is low on strength because no one will accept him being a clone, except

Jeff Kennedy READ 3350-001 The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 1) In the not so distant future, The House of the Scorpion, takes place in the country of Opium. This country lies between the United States and Aztlan, formerly known as Mexico. Within these borders we follow the life of a young boy named Matteo Alacran, who happens to be a clone. Not only is Matt a clone, but he happens to be the clone of the 143 year old dictator of Opium, El Patron. Since he is the copy of the most powerful

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

they form in animals not humans. In the novel The House of Scorpions by Nancy Farmer, Matt is a clone and the only person that treated him fairly his whole life was his guardian Celia. Celia would be often gone at work and Matt would be home alone. When Matt met Maria she was very kind to him because she did not know he was a clone. Steven, Emelia and Tom were anything but kind to him. They knew he was a clone because he was living in a poor house in the poppies. At the time, Matt did not know he

“It was thirsty just now,” said Tam Lin. “If I hadn’t told it to drink, it would have stood in front of the trough until it died. Stay,” he told the horse.In the book House Of The Scorpion the character Matt’s goes through a lot of sudden changes and gets his dreams answered but not the answers that he wanted like people working all day without stopping unless told to do so. Which is causing conflict.Conflict in this book is wide range from Man vs Nature to Man vs Himself. Conflict is a action that

good for one person. In “The House of the Scorpion”, there is a utopia, but it isn’t always perfect. El Patrón is the leader of this utopia and he controls a strip of land. If there are any illegals he turns them into eejits and makes them help work producing opium. El Patrón makes a lot of money and he uses clones for spare parts so he can live longer. El Patrón thinks this is a utopia because he has everything he wants. However this is a

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

backstab one another. One minute, people lay on the solid ground with everything they could imagine, and the next minute, people don’t even recognize what their world used to be. This is exactly how most felt from El Patrón. In the book The House of the Scorpions, El Patrón is a wealthy drug lord who retains all the treasures that anyone could desire in the universe--except for everlasting life. To solve this problem, El Patrón creates clones, and his most recent clone is Matt Alacrán. El Patrón treats

“But underneath Matt felt a hollowness” (Farmer 84). Throughout the book, The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, the main character, Matt, longs for acceptance and craves something that is not there. Matt does not feel accepted at the Alacrán estate because of his identity, but later accepts who is as a individual. Matt later escapes the Alacrán estate due to dangerous conditions, and later on, the Plankton Factory/Boneyard as well. Matt is insecure, therefore, creating many conflicts within

The setting in the house of scorpion can be pictured as a dry, rigid place just beyond the border of America. The country that this novel takes place in has a deep dark secret behind it’s one-colored, aristocracy government. And in this novel, there is only one person willing to find what that secret is, and that’s matt. Matt is a young boy who progresses into a teenager throughout the book, but he doesn't have normal struggles.He goes through puberty just as a normal teen, but there something different

At the beginning of the book, Matt is introduce in a poor house in the poppy fields with Celia looking after him. The book takes place in Mexico, sometime in the future. In future Mexico, there are such things as clones and Matt is one of them, But doesn’t know about it. In the book, clones are mistreated and called animals. Towards the ending, El patron (Matt’s maker/powerful drug lord) dies, and Matt has to take on the responsibility to basically rule the country, and take over the opium occupation

The House of the Scorpion shows what identity truly is. Nancy Farmer shows how identity is who you are not what people think you're supposed to be. Since Matt is a clone his identity is viewed differently by everyone he encounters but that doesn't really change who he is. Throughout the book Matt's treated differently because he's a clone. He goes from being a normal kid, to less than an animal, to a poor human being, to the ruler of Opium. ”You really are El Patron. You have...his identity. You

one of the most powerful drug lords in the world. Matt was raised by Celia in a place between the United States and Aztlan called Opium. When El Patron needs Matt for a heart transplant Matt runs away. This leads to one of the themes of The House of the Scorpion which is that children shouldn’t let others shape the way they live. I know this because on page 5 it says, “‘Take me with you,’ begged Matt, grabbing her shirt and wadding it up in his hands. ‘Stop that.’ Celia gently pried his fingers from

Does a single sentence have the power to change fate? The House of the Scorpion follows Matt’s journey through life being a clone of El Patrón. El Patrón is a drug lord who gained enough money and power to start a country (Opium). Matt has to learn live life in Opium (which is 100 years in the past) and to survive being a clone only created for organs. Although Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion explores the themes of identity and science, it mostly conveys the theme of choices are made and consequences

Matteo Alacran’s journey to find his place Everyone struggles to find their place in society, but who knew that someone who wasn’t human struggled too. In the novel, The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, Matteo Alacran also called Matt, does just that. In a future version Mexico, Matt Alacran, a clone of the evil drug lord, El Patron, struggles to find his place in society. Matt is looked at as a monster since he is a clone, but El Patron sees as Matt as an equal. There are many hardships that

is happening around them and they can find out how they can stop it. Both the main characters although kids do their best to save their loved ones Both the characters are in some way or the other betrayed by someone they trust Like in “The house of the Scorpion”,Matt who trusted in El Patron so much that he didn’t even see the danger in front of him.Finally he finds out that he is betrayed and escapes from all those who try kill him although he trusted them. In “The darkest part

in someway, you could be writing a paper, yelling at your sister, or maybe just talking to yourself. But you use it in someway, shape, or form. In the stories, The House of The Scorpion and “Two Kinds” by Nancy Farmer and Amy Tan the authors used figurative language to develop the setting and mood. In the novel, The House of The Scorpion the author use figurative language to set the mood, setting, and characters. “. . . he watched Rosa as though she was an image on a TV screen.” This shows that the

Imagine if you thought someone loved in a way unique only to you, was only loving what you could do for them, and loved having that unbalanced control over your life. In the book, House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, a young character Matt suffers with peers that wish he didn’t exist; because he stands for a more sinister reason. He lives only because of a person who seemingly loves him, El Patron, a drug lord in control of everyone and everything in the country of Opium. This unbalanced domination

Feminist Perspectives in The House of the Scorpion Have you ever thought about analyzing literature from a feminist perspective? Feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, women are an important element to the story; each of the primary women---Celia, Maria, and Rosa---act as catalysts for the events that occur in Matt’s life which affects his development as a character. Celia is Matt’s--- the main character/clone