For my book report project I read The House of the Scorpions written by Nancy Farmer. The amazing book is about a boy named Matteo Alacrán, Matt for short. He is a six year old boy who lives in a stuffy shack with a woman named Celia. Matt has rarely been outside, and the only real people he knows are Celia and a doctor that comes to visit him once every couple of months. Until three kids discover the hovel in the large flower field behind the Alacrán estate.
The three kids Emilia, Steven and María come back the next day tempting Matt to leave the house. Not wanting the three to leave Matt breaks and jumps out the window severely injuring himself. In the panic the kids run to the estate with Matt trying to find him help. During the clean up, …show more content…
María, Celia, Tam Lin and El Patrón make and effort to get Matt to talk but they fail. Until a woman is hired to teach Matt. After becoming so sick of the repetitive actions of the teacher Matt yells at calling her and her an eejit finally getting his voice back.
As a result Tam Lin takes Matt out on a picnic. While riding on a horse with Tam Lin they pass a field when Matt sees a man lying on the ground lifeless. Matt mentions it to Tam Lin, and discovers the dark truth about why the man is like that. The man is an eejit. And eejit was a person, but they have had a chip implanted in their brain that takes away their mind. They are human computers that only can do things when they are told to. The man is there because he was out of range when the eejit were called back, so he wasn’t able to eat or drink killing him. A few weeks later, during El Patrón’s birthday party Matt grows angry at María for being friends with Tom, one of the younger children of the Alacrán family who was the first one to discover Matt when he was imprisoned by Rosa and Dr. Willum and launched pea’s at Matt hurting the defenseless boy after throwing a moldy rotten orange at Tom. In hope for some drama El Patrón let’s Matt do whatever he wants. Matt still is mad at María, Matt commands a kiss on his cheek from
The three kids Emilia, Steven and María come back the next day tempting Matt to leave the house. Not wanting the three to leave Matt breaks and jumps out the window severely injuring himself. In the panic the kids run to the estate with Matt trying to find him help. During the clean up, …show more content…
María, Celia, Tam Lin and El Patrón make and effort to get Matt to talk but they fail. Until a woman is hired to teach Matt. After becoming so sick of the repetitive actions of the teacher Matt yells at calling her and her an eejit finally getting his voice back.
As a result Tam Lin takes Matt out on a picnic. While riding on a horse with Tam Lin they pass a field when Matt sees a man lying on the ground lifeless. Matt mentions it to Tam Lin, and discovers the dark truth about why the man is like that. The man is an eejit. And eejit was a person, but they have had a chip implanted in their brain that takes away their mind. They are human computers that only can do things when they are told to. The man is there because he was out of range when the eejit were called back, so he wasn’t able to eat or drink killing him. A few weeks later, during El Patrón’s birthday party Matt grows angry at María for being friends with Tom, one of the younger children of the Alacrán family who was the first one to discover Matt when he was imprisoned by Rosa and Dr. Willum and launched pea’s at Matt hurting the defenseless boy after throwing a moldy rotten orange at Tom. In hope for some drama El Patrón let’s Matt do whatever he wants. Matt still is mad at María, Matt commands a kiss on his cheek from