The Scorpion is...
long lived on the earth. They are small but deadly. Their sting might seem as nothing too a person that does not know about them, but if you are stung you might not ever wake up. They are mysterious but fatal. The seem as nothing harmful by their looks, but on the inside they are something you should never want to anger much like the charecter El patron in the book
" The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer.
In the book El Patron is a very powerful, very rich, and very famous drug lord. He has a vast domain of poppy fields which basicly means opium fields. This story takes place in the future. In the current time Mexico and the U.S. have compromised with El Patron by an agreement in which if El Patron agrees that none of his products will be disbuted to Mexico or the U.S., both countries will not interfere with his country, named after his product, opium. Also, at this time clones are a very real event at this time. Clones are born in cows. Most clones are thought less of than even animals. When they are born they are injected with a serum that basicly turns them into vegetables. The have a very depressing life also because the main reason clones are made is basicly for when the person that the clones are made to be begins to die, their body parts are taken that the person they are cloned of needs to continue to live. Most people that have clones never want to see their clones until they are dying and need their body parts.
This is important to rember because in the book El Patron wants a clone too. There is something very different El Patron choses to do with his clone, Matt. El Patron decides not to let the doctors inject Matt with the serum that will result in Matt being a vegtable. Some other different things that El Patron choses for Matt is that Matt has an education, he does not treat Matt as an animal as most people do to clones, he also wants to be able to see Matt. Matt later on learns that this was all just a cover-up to hide from Matt what will one day eventullay happen to Matt. El Patron will need a new heart because he has had a heart attack. This was expected beacuse afterall he was 148 years-old.
Matt had always thought as El Patron as a kind old man, espically after El Patron and Cellia, Matts caretaker, saves Matt from Rosa and the straw filled room that she had kept Matt prisoner in after Matt was brought to her and the doctor by Tom, Emilia, and Maria whith glass stuck in his body from breaking a window and falling on the glass so that he could be with Maria.
Later on when Matt discovers about what El Patron has instore for him his gaurd Tam Lin, helps Matt escape by sending Matt across the border to Durango. Matt makes it their, where he is found by keepers. He is put in a type of reform facilty till he arrives at San Louis to find work. He find that San Louis is more or less the same.
In San Louis Matt is put to work at a plankton processing factory. This place is also run by the keepers. Here Matt angers the keepers by turning in some of the other boys that are sent here into rebels. Finally the keepers punish Matt by sending him and his friend Macho into a hole filled with whale bones. Matt and Macho escape by the help of other boys and try to travel to a chuch too meet Marias mother there so that she could aid in taking down El Patrons opium kingdom. While going to the church they pass out and are rescued by a woman and a man. The woman and the men take them to the chuch and do indeed find Marias mother. The plan that Matt had made up originally was not what Marias mother, Senoriata Mendoza, had I mind. Senoriata Mendoza planned for Matt to take one of the hovercrafts of El Patrons, but because of Matt escaping and El Patron dying opium was on a lockdown,but to use the hovercraft Matt was going to have to let the hovercraft read his DNA to check to see if it was El Patrons. If it did not match the hovercraft would be blown-up. If the hovercraft was not blown-up Matt would go to Opium and destroy the drug products.
But before Matt could take action, the keepers arrived at the church. The keepers then order Senoriata Mendoza to give Matt, Macho, and their friends over to them but they refuse because they believe the boys are in danger. The keepers try to tell Senoriata Mendoza that they are not indanger but one of Matts friend, Fidelito, proves that the keepers were beating them for past punishment by showing Senoriata Mendoza the bruises left by the beatings.
After this is over with Matt DNA matched El Patrons when the hovercraft checked his DNA. Once Matt gets to Opium he strangly finds that there is no hostilty to his arrival. This is because when El Patron died there was a bottle of wine that he left for this occasion. The only catch was, the bottle of wine was poisoned by El Patron so that even in death his opium kingdom would be with him. How this came to happen was... while Matt was escaping Opuim everyone one was on alert because of El Patrons medical emeregency. Celeia was spared because Matts bodyguard had made it appear that she was an eejit, a person that has a computer chip in their brain to tell them what to do. Mr. Ortega, Matt music teacher, also did not join because everyone had forgoten about him. Later on El Patrons funeral began, after the funeral had ended wine, that was saved for the occasion, was served. The thing was though, the wine was poisoned and only Matts bodyguard Tam-Lin knew this information. Tam-Lin told Daft Donald, El Patrons bodyguard, this information and it saved Daft Donalds life. Tam-Lin still drunk the poison because he could not live with his past. In Tam-Lins past he was a terrorist.He had attempted to use a bomb to kill the British Prime Minister, insted he accidentaly killed twenty children who were riding a school bus.
The book ended with Matt attempting to understand what to do next.
This is important to rember because in the book El Patron wants a clone too. There is something very different El Patron choses to do with his clone, Matt. El Patron decides not to let the doctors inject Matt with the serum that will result in Matt being a vegtable. Some other different things that El Patron choses for Matt is that Matt has an education, he does not treat Matt as an animal as most people do to clones, he also wants to be able to see Matt. Matt later on learns that this was all just a cover-up to hide from Matt what will one day eventullay happen to Matt. El Patron will need a new heart because he has had a heart attack. This was expected beacuse afterall he was 148 years-old.
Matt had always thought as El Patron as a kind old man, espically after El Patron and Cellia, Matts caretaker, saves Matt from Rosa and the straw filled room that she had kept Matt prisoner in after Matt was brought to her and the doctor by Tom, Emilia, and Maria whith glass stuck in his body from breaking a window and falling on the glass so that he could be with Maria.
Later on when Matt discovers about what El Patron has instore for him his gaurd Tam Lin, helps Matt escape by sending Matt across the border to Durango. Matt makes it their, where he is found by keepers. He is put in a type of reform facilty till he arrives at San Louis to find work. He find that San Louis is more or less the same.
In San Louis Matt is put to work at a plankton processing factory. This place is also run by the keepers. Here Matt angers the keepers by turning in some of the other boys that are sent here into rebels. Finally the keepers punish Matt by sending him and his friend Macho into a hole filled with whale bones. Matt and Macho escape by the help of other boys and try to travel to a chuch too meet Marias mother there so that she could aid in taking down El Patrons opium kingdom. While going to the church they pass out and are rescued by a woman and a man. The woman and the men take them to the chuch and do indeed find Marias mother. The plan that Matt had made up originally was not what Marias mother, Senoriata Mendoza, had I mind. Senoriata Mendoza planned for Matt to take one of the hovercrafts of El Patrons, but because of Matt escaping and El Patron dying opium was on a lockdown,but to use the hovercraft Matt was going to have to let the hovercraft read his DNA to check to see if it was El Patrons. If it did not match the hovercraft would be blown-up. If the hovercraft was not blown-up Matt would go to Opium and destroy the drug products.
But before Matt could take action, the keepers arrived at the church. The keepers then order Senoriata Mendoza to give Matt, Macho, and their friends over to them but they refuse because they believe the boys are in danger. The keepers try to tell Senoriata Mendoza that they are not indanger but one of Matts friend, Fidelito, proves that the keepers were beating them for past punishment by showing Senoriata Mendoza the bruises left by the beatings.
After this is over with Matt DNA matched El Patrons when the hovercraft checked his DNA. Once Matt gets to Opium he strangly finds that there is no hostilty to his arrival. This is because when El Patron died there was a bottle of wine that he left for this occasion. The only catch was, the bottle of wine was poisoned by El Patron so that even in death his opium kingdom would be with him. How this came to happen was... while Matt was escaping Opuim everyone one was on alert because of El Patrons medical emeregency. Celeia was spared because Matts bodyguard had made it appear that she was an eejit, a person that has a computer chip in their brain to tell them what to do. Mr. Ortega, Matt music teacher, also did not join because everyone had forgoten about him. Later on El Patrons funeral began, after the funeral had ended wine, that was saved for the occasion, was served. The thing was though, the wine was poisoned and only Matts bodyguard Tam-Lin knew this information. Tam-Lin told Daft Donald, El Patrons bodyguard, this information and it saved Daft Donalds life. Tam-Lin still drunk the poison because he could not live with his past. In Tam-Lins past he was a terrorist.He had attempted to use a bomb to kill the British Prime Minister, insted he accidentaly killed twenty children who were riding a school bus.
The book ended with Matt attempting to understand what to do next.