In addition, people seem to flee from Matt the instant they find out he is a clone, assuming he is a dirty, filthy, nonhuman animal. These people are just among the many who do not stay in Matt’s life for long unless they are forced to. Later on in the novel, after Matt has escaped from Opium and is in San Luis under the watch of the Keepers, he becomes friends with two fellow Lost Boys, Fidelito and Chacho. Following Matt and Chacho’s escape from the Boneyard, a haunted ditch filled with whale bones, Matt is questioned about his secret (his being a clone): “Fidelito looked up at him. ‘Was that when you were a zombie?’ Matt then says, ‘Oh brother!’ Matt said. ‘Don’t tell me you believed Jorge’s lies?’ Fidelito breathes a sigh of relief, ‘Of course not,’ said the little boy but Matt noticed he seemed relieved” (Farmer 357).
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To Fidelito, it does not matter what, or who, Matt is, he may not know the truth about Matt’s origins, but nevertheless he has stayed faithful, loyal, and kind. When Farmer writes “Matt noticed he seemed relieved” the reader sees that Fidelito was not quite sure what to believe, but in his heart he knew who Matt was, and to him the label did not matter. The little boy had grown to know Matt as someone who would protect him and as someone who was a role model for him, he was not going to run away because he learned something about Matt that may or may not have been true. Another way to portray this would be Maria, the sweet little girl who Matt had come to know over the years. When he finally sees her again at the convent where she has been living, her reaction illustrates everything she feels for him: “They were interrupted by a shriek. A girl in a white party dress streaked through the door and threw herself into Matt's arms, ‘Oh,
To Fidelito, it does not matter what, or who, Matt is, he may not know the truth about Matt’s origins, but nevertheless he has stayed faithful, loyal, and kind. When Farmer writes “Matt noticed he seemed relieved” the reader sees that Fidelito was not quite sure what to believe, but in his heart he knew who Matt was, and to him the label did not matter. The little boy had grown to know Matt as someone who would protect him and as someone who was a role model for him, he was not going to run away because he learned something about Matt that may or may not have been true. Another way to portray this would be Maria, the sweet little girl who Matt had come to know over the years. When he finally sees her again at the convent where she has been living, her reaction illustrates everything she feels for him: “They were interrupted by a shriek. A girl in a white party dress streaked through the door and threw herself into Matt's arms, ‘Oh,