House Of The Scorpion Thesis

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The book “The House of the Scorpion” was written by Nancy Farmer which was a very good book that all middle schoolers and up should read. The story “ The House of the Scorpion” took place in the future inside of a country called Opium that was a strip of little poppy fields between the two countries that are known as The United States and what used to be called Mexico. Matt, is a 6 year old boy that different from everyone else. He was a clone so he was treated differently and everyone thought that he ws a monster, but there was still hope because not everyone hated him. A lab where they were studying on little drops of life that were studied inside petri dishes that were soon to be implanted in cows to experiment with their growth. Most

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