In the story The House of The Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, the main character is Matt and this mostly takes place in Opium. In the beginning it takes place in a lab that creates clones. The embryo of Matteo Alacran is put into a cow, the cow gives birth to it like a normal baby. But with all clones they are given something that stops them from having any intelligence but this one does not. The main conflict of the story is Matt’s existence, for he is a clone. At the end of the story the solution is that Matt is then made the new El Patron after the original El Patron dies.
Something to think about at first, is of Matt and this entire new world he is introduced to. It’s different because he only knew of Celia and he was prohibited of going outside and was told stories to make him scared of going outside. When learning of what he is make him wonder what his purpose in life is and why is he important to El Patron (the original version of him). El Patron is the most powerful person in Opium by seeing how no one goes against him, and all that Matt sees was created by him, he made his empire from the ground up. But being the only clone that has intelligence makes him unliked and just being a clone does too. People were told clones are like animals and are stupid creatures. …show more content…
According to the passage, “He would dig up the poppy fields and put in normal crops. Once the eejits were cured, Matt would give them the choice of returning home or of working for him. He would help them find their children” (Farmers 379). As you can see Matt is planning to fix the empire and make it out of peace and not by fear and terror. The ideas of trying to fix the eejits back to normal was a more surprising but yet good idea of Matt’s. If El Patron was still there he would deny the idea
Something to think about at first, is of Matt and this entire new world he is introduced to. It’s different because he only knew of Celia and he was prohibited of going outside and was told stories to make him scared of going outside. When learning of what he is make him wonder what his purpose in life is and why is he important to El Patron (the original version of him). El Patron is the most powerful person in Opium by seeing how no one goes against him, and all that Matt sees was created by him, he made his empire from the ground up. But being the only clone that has intelligence makes him unliked and just being a clone does too. People were told clones are like animals and are stupid creatures. …show more content…
According to the passage, “He would dig up the poppy fields and put in normal crops. Once the eejits were cured, Matt would give them the choice of returning home or of working for him. He would help them find their children” (Farmers 379). As you can see Matt is planning to fix the empire and make it out of peace and not by fear and terror. The ideas of trying to fix the eejits back to normal was a more surprising but yet good idea of Matt’s. If El Patron was still there he would deny the idea