Scorpion

The Price of Matt’s Freedom In House of the Scorpion, Matt was unhappy living at Celia’s house. He loved Celia, but she was his only human contact; while she was away at work, he had no one to interact with. Matt was desperately bored and lonely being trapped at home all his life and wanted nothing more than to explore the outside world. His curiosity won him over when three children bid him to come outside and play with them. He broke out of the only place he had never known and launched…

A 148-year-old ruler of a country. Hovercrafts. Human clones. Computer chips that can control your mind. These are just a few of the many futuristic things you will find in this dystopian novel. In “The House of the Scorpion,” by Nancy Farmer, Matteo Alacran, or Matt for short, is the clone of a powerful drug lord named “El Patron,” who is also the ruler of the country of Opium, which is the country between the United States and what used to be Mexico. Unbeknownst to Matt, clones are used for…

How would you feel if you had to live with the fact that you could get your freedom taken away at any time? In Nancy Farmers novel The House Of The Scorpion, workers are able to inject people with a chip that causes them to become brain-dead. These people, known as “eejits” are used as workers so that the opium business can thrive. It is a big controversy since it is such a big decision that has so many negative effects. Imagine having a perfectly normal life and then one day it all changes and…

Have you ever wondered what would happen if cloning existed? The House of the Scorpion is about cloning and the many moral problems it would cause. In The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer throughout the story with the help of others, Matt changes greatly. Tam Lin changes Matt, Maria changes Matt, and El Patron changes Matt. Maria makes matt kinder. It is after El Viejo’s funeral and maria and matt are in the computer room. “‘So you have to promise to be good’ ‘okay,’ said Matt, who would…

In the story The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer,the main character is Matt. The setting is in the country of Opium. In the beginning of the story, Matt was a little five year old that became friends with a girl name Celia. Celia was probably the first person he actually met. The main problem in the book is that matt struggles in his life with all the bad conditions. The solution is Matt crosses the border into Aztlan and finds Maria and her mom Esperanza. At the end of the story,…

small house, but loving, none the less. In this house are two bonding people, Celia and Matt. Although Matt isn’t the normal child and Celia isn’t the normal guardian, they don’t let that get in the way of their relationship. In “The House of the Scorpion,” the author, Nancy Farmer, adds occasional Spanish words to the text to introduce the characters, and create a setting. Throughout the text, dialogue plays a major part is introducing the characters. For example, the texts states, “And he…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman…

Have you ever treated treated someone badly and then they treated you poorly back? The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer is about Matt, who is a clone of a Mexican drug lord, El Patron. Matt is struggling to find out who he is and to survive. This book can have many themes but the one I think fits best is disrespecting others would lead them to disrespect you. Evidence for this theme can be seen when Matt meets Tom (chapter 5), when El Patron had his second heart attack (chapter 21), and…

“The House of the Scorpion” created by Nancy Farmer is an exhilarating story that should be read by many people in multiple grade levels. The setting takes places in a country called Opium in a large property called the Alacrán Estate. Opium is in a strip of poppy fields in between the USA and what used to be called Mexico. Matteo Alacrán (Matt) is a clone that was harvested from the womb of a cow after being made in a petri dish. Matt is a clone of El Patrón the lord of the country, Opium.…

Vietnam and satori – who might the actual audience be? Context: Published in an anthology of essays on environmental literature. When was it published? 1968 – Rise of environmental movement /rings of Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums Picture of the scorpion Argument: The desert is brimming with life and endless places of interest. Undeveloped space should be coveted, protected, and loved. People should become acquainted with its mysteries and splendors and above all respect and protect it.…