The House Of The Scorpion Quote Analysis

Scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July of 1996. Her name was Dolly. Even though scientists cloned a sheep, cloning humans is illegal. If someone tried to clone themselves, they might get a clone if the scientists complete the process correctly, but it is extremely wrong and illegal. The book, The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer was about the life of a clone. The main character was Matteo Alacran, Matt. In other words the clone. The story takes place in the future. Matt lives at an estate owned by a drug lord. Matt is 1 of 7 clones. El Patron, the drug lord, uses clones to stay alive. Matt escapes the power of El Patron and survives. Throughout The House of the Scorpion the author analyzes the theme of acceptance and how happiness

only exists in acceptance.

We witness this when Celia takes care of Matt, the clone. Also, we see this when Maria wants to be Matt, even though she knows what he is. Finally, we view this when El Patron saves his clone from an abusive caretaker.
Celia is the very first person to accept Matt in his life. She accepts Matt all thought his life. First, Celia is Matt’s caretaker, but every day she has to go to work at the “Big House”. Matt hates this. He doesn’t like to be left alone all day while she is at work. Some days he even cried when she left. Nancy Farmer states on page 6, “ ‘Don’t cry, mi vida. I love you more than anything in the world.’ ’’ This shows the theme of acceptance because, Celia takes Matt into her arms to help him stop crying. She is one of the few people that don’t see Matt as a clone. She sees him as a little kid. Also, Celia accepts Matt when he escapes from Rosa. Rosa is who is very abusive to Matt when he is discovered by some children that were traveling the poppy fields. When Matt is put with Rosa, he is saved by Maria, one of Matt’s best

friends, and Celia. Celia had written a letter and was going to have Maria have her dad send it to someone who would for sure free Matt. It says on page 48, “ ‘ I hate like crazy to do it, but there’s only one person who can save Matt. Maria you must take the letter to your dada. He’ll know where to send it.’ ” This explains, that both Celia and Maria accept Matt, that they are worried about him, and are trying dearly to save him from Rosa. Finally, the most important time that Celia shows acceptance for Matt, is when she saves his life. As El Patron is starting to die, again, he needs Matt for transplants. Celia saves Matt from this. The author states on page 235, “ ‘When you had your first heart attack, I poisoned Matt with foxglove from my garden… I’m a curandera, you know, as well as a cook. I made Matt’s heart too unstable to transplant.’ ” Celia loved Matt so much and accepted his greatly to the point where she saved his life. Celia extremely accepted Matt throughout The House of the Scorpion.
The second person that, indeed, accepted Matt in his life was Maria. She is the daughter of Senator Mendoza. Maria accepted Matt the very first moment that she met him. She was with other kids when she found Matt out in a house, in the poppy fields. Maria went up to the window and started talking to Matt. It states on page 15, “ ‘ What’s your name? Do you want to play?’ ” This explains that right away when Maria met Matt she wanted to meet him and accept him into her life.