...Power is a very evil thing in the hands of certain people. In the novel, The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer a clear and complete theme is shown through multiple unique and diverse characters. The book is about a boy named Matt, who is a clone of a drug lord named El Patron. Matt is brought to El Patron's home where he learns clones are only used for transplants and will die at the age of fourteen. Matt and his friend Maria get help from the bodyguard Tam Lin and cook Celia to try to get Matt out of the house before he can be used for transplants and die. The clear theme in this book is how power corrupts those who have it. This is present in the two characters Matt, and El Patron. Both, when given power make wrong, and bad decisions....
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...class have more power in society? Throughout time, those living in lower classes have continually followed the leadership of the higher class. Nancy Farmer’s novel, The House of the Scorpion, is a story about a clone named Matt. He is a clone of El Patrón, the undying drug lord of a country called Opium. Matt’s purpose as a clone is to provide healthy body parts to El Patrón to keep the drug lord alive. Throughout the story, Matt encounters the imbalance of power in the societies he visits. In her novel, The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer shows that high class people create systems to stay in power through MacGregor, the Keepers, and El Patrón. First, Farmer shows that high class people create systems to stay in power through MacGregor. Matt began to wonder why clones were created after talking with his caregiver, Celia, and bodyguard, Tam Lin,...
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...El Patron is a cruel, old, and rich tyrant who seems to be kind at first, but is only working to increase his wealth and power. How far will El Patron go to get what he wants? The novel, The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer is a rousing science fiction tale that explores a futuristic world and the power-hungry dictators left to control it. El Patron’s negative nature will lead him to become a monster throughout the book. El Patron will take any means necessary to live out the lives of his siblings by murdering and controlling innocent people. Thus he is cruel to others who have a different status ranking then he. Firstly, El Patron will use others so he can get rid of them. “Before Rosa could do any serious harm, a pair of burly men rushed through the door and dragged her away.” (Farmer,56) El patron arranged some men to take Rosa away to punish her for her bad actions towards Matt. El Patron was...
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...Reading The House of the Scorpion, the first book of the Matteo Alacrán series, by Nancy Farmer, a fictional and futuristic dystopian society ruled by aristocrats. It takes place in a newly created country called Opium which separates the USA and Aztlán (formerly Mexico). It was constructed due to a trade between the two bordering countries and rich drug lords. The deal included: The USA and Mexico would give rich drug lords a vast amount of land to grow drug crops to sell to European, Asian, and African countries in exchange for keeping illegal immigrants from transporting from one country to another and the restriction drug sales in their countries. The main character, Matteo Alacrán, is a clone to the king of Opium, El Patron. He was harvested inside a cow and grew off of a piece of skin...
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