The House of The Scorpion #3

Reading Reflection #3

 

 

Book: The House of The Scorpion

Author: Nancy Farmer

Pages Read: 40-62

 

The House of The Scorpion

 

Continuing on, we meet and learn about so many new characters, but one scene make me curious and want to make a comment, people seem to turn on each other so fast around the “big white house”, which is what we've found out is where a powerful man named El Patron lives and runs the opium fields. id also like to answer this comment. I beleive from what iv read that everyone is scared of this old man. He's in charge and no one would ever diobay him. This would cause people to be intimidated and throw fellow servents, workers, and family members under the bus when trouble comes around.

As I early predicted Matt has gotten into a world of trouble, on his adventure into the new and unfamiliar he manages to get injured and kidnapped. A few pages after this all happens he learn an important piece of information, Matt has been locked up for six months. When he is finally released (I won’t get into details) he is taken to see an old man called El Patron. The depth on which Matt describes him and talks about a weird familiarity he feels around this man leads me to a prediction, El Patron is  somehow related to Matt. The old man and little boy are going to have a deep meaningful relationship in the book.
Continuing on I find an answer to my earlier prediction, Matt does have a strong purpose. He is El Patrons clone! The little boy Matt is also put in charge of El Patrons estate, even though most servents and family around the house ignore him, some are even openly disgused by the little boy (AKA clone). This makes me curious to why everyone has a problem with clones?

The story continues.

 

Till Next Time.  C