The House Of The Scorpion Belonging Quotes

In the beginning of this book, Matt lives with Celia in a small house at the edge of the poppy fields. Celia is his caretaker, and he thinks of her as his mama. Matt is completely isolated and is only seen by the doctor once a month. Matt sees Celia every day before she goes to work and when she comes home from work every night.

A character in this story that plays an important part is Matt’s friend, Maria. Maria is always kind to Matt and although he is a clone, Maria still loves him and likes talking to him and Matt also loves Maria. Maria is always kind to Matt and has wanted to play with him ever since they met. On page 15 Maria shouts,“Hey, boy! What’s your name? Do you want to play?” This quote from the book is the first time Maria and Matt met. After the first day they met, Maria has always liked him and never forgotten about him. Maria

In the middle of the book, Matt encounters a situation that changes his life forever. He was stuck in a hospital room waiting for the doctors to take him in the operating room to do the heart transplant. With Celia’s help, he escapes from the hospital and El Patron. Celia had poisoned Matt so that El Parton wouldn’t steel his heart, “…enough to kill anyone already weak who tried to steal his

Although they are saying this in front of him, he stays positive. He entertains himself with the sawdust, and becomes friends with the bugs that start to live in the sawdust with him. He constantly thinks about Celia and Maria to stay happy and content with his new life.Matt stays positive by finding happiness in everything and not holding grudges. On page 147, Matt finds out that Rosa had been turned into an eejit because of the way she treated him. Instead of saying that she had it coming, he feels bad for her because she got the life sucked out of her body. Every time he got a horse, he would try to talk to her, to see if she would respond, but she never did. Finally, Matt made friends with people who believed him and believed that even though he was a clone, it didn’t matter, and this kept him

Later on the story Mattie experiences her grandfather?s death, which taught her to stand up for herself. After all of the hardships that Mattie and Grandfather faced out on their own, they came back to a Philadelphia very unalike the one they had left, and their coffeehouse home was no different. It was completely robbed of almost everything and shards of glass were everywhere. Although this did not stop two thieves from coming in and killing grandfather when he tried to fight back. Mattie did not take this well however. After Grandfather fainted, she gashed the robber?s shoulder with her granddad?s sword which sent him running down the street with Mattie chasing him close behind. This event clearly shows that Mattie learned to stand up for herself against higher authority, which is a big part of adulthood.

Summarize- In the book The House of the Scorpion the author Nancy Farmer tells the story of a young clone boy and the struggles and events throughout his life. In the beginning of the book one of the main things that happens is when it tells the story of how Matt’s embryo was injected into a cow to be born. Later in the book it shows how Matt, now grown up, is locked in his house all his life and one day some kids see him so he jumps out the window and cuts his feet badly for the first time. The kids take him back to their house and then find out he’s a clone so a woman named Rosa locks him in a room with sawdust. One of the kids, Maria, does not care Matt is a clone and she visits him while he’s locked up but is then kicked out of the house for this reason. Months later, he is found by his original caretaker and told that he will soon be

Greed is like old age it slowly consumes you, nobody can escape it, and it will eventually cause your demise. In House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, a clone named Matt is isolated from the world because in this time period clones are viewed as pets. He is the clone of El Patrón, the lord of Opium; opium is a county that runs in a narrow line between the USA and Aztlan. (modern-day Mexico) Clones are supposed to be brain dead, but El Patrón wanted to relive his youth through his clone, which allowed Matt to find a way to defeat El Patrón. Throughout this novel, Farmer conveys the message greed is eventually going to lead to demise.

Matt was born a clone. This made things very difficult for him. Some people thought of Matt as an animal. Because of this, for a period of time, he also got treated like one. When Matt was first brought to the Alacran Mansion Rosa was assigned to watch him, and she didn’t treat him well. Matt was put into a room; with barred windows and rough cement floors. The room was later filled with chicken litter. This series of struggles taught Matt to have patience. For an extremely long time one day, Tom, a rude member of the Alacran family, shot peas at Matt. Matt dealt with Tom with much patience. “He instinctively understood that if he refused to react, Tom would lose interest.” (Farmer 46) This patience helped him climb out of a bone pit and deal with outrageous

‘What about the doctor?’” This quote indicates how kind of a heart Matt has. It introduces guilt to the reader of the man lying there and a little pleasure of knowing that the main character isn’t soulless. It helps add feelings and depth of the understanding of the reader when reading this dialogue. Secondly, when Celia, Matt’s guardian is leaving for work, says,“‘What’s this?’ the woman said. ‘You’re a big boy now, almost six. You know I have to work.’...

‘Stop that.’” When the reader is reading the quote they feel sympathy for Matt and a bit upset with Celia for being so strict for not taking him and being so harsh. Finally, when Matt is being hunted down, his friend María is helping him, they say, “‘What am I supposed to do?’ Matt said. He felt drained of willpower.

Rosa treats Matt like an animal, leaving

To begin with, I believe that there was more than one conflicts in the story. The conflicts were man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. man, and man vs. society. Mattie acquired all of these conflicts throughout the novel. To describe the conflict of man vs. nature, it is explained that the fever had spread through the air and it was up to Mattie to save herself from the disease. She had to “fight” nature and protect herself from the heat as well as the fever until winter arrived. Mattie also fought with herself when she had to decide to give Nell up to the orphanage or keep her in her own hands. Mattie also shows man vs. society as she defended the intruders breaking in the coffeehouse. Man vs. man is explained in the novel when Mattie would argue about doing her chores and going to Polly’s funeral in the

When Matt finally saw Maria for the first time in years Maria forgave him. He showed maturity by not saying he didn’t do it because he knew that would just create more problems in their relationship. After all their problems Maria became Matt’s best friend and one of his strongest allies.

Matt experiences lots of loyalty and love when he is with Tam Lin. In the beginning of the book, when Matt chooses Tam Lin to be his bodyguard, he did not know that he would also become his best friend. Tam Lin would do anything for Matt, even if it includes saving his life, which he did. When El Patron died, and Matt was no longer useful, Tam Lin was ordered to kill him, but instead, he helped him survive and set up a plan for him to escape. At first, Matt had thought that Tam Lin Was

Lucielia was literally dying of grief and rage. "It is Mattie's intervention and her ability to place Lucielia's grief in a historical context and to know it as one more instance of "murdered dreams" in a long history of such murders that undergirds her life saving and healing intervention" (Aull, 2) Mattie healed and renewed Lucielia physically and mentally. "Mattie magnificently wrestles Ciel, dying of grief, back to life" (Gottlieb p.1484). Mattie took on the role of a mother when she nursed Lucielia back to health. Mattie treated and nursed Lucielia "as if handling a newborn"(Naylor, 104). Mattie's relationship with Basil teaches her valuable lessons that help her to be a more effective mother figure to Lucielia. Mattie's mistake with Basil is she used him to fill a void. She loved the fact that he was solely dependent on her. "My Bed hasn't been empty since Basil was born" (38). Mattie spoiled Basil to the point he would always have to have his way. He knew his mother would always be there for him. Because of that, he took advantage of her. It was hard for Mattie to watch the turmoil and sadness Lucielia had to encounter in her love life. It was like watching her child suffer. However, Mattie wasn't going to make the same mistake she made with Basil. Mattie let Lucielia take control of her own life. She never told her what to do. She just listened and gave her support her. Lucielia questioned