In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the author creates a description with dialogue that portrays Matt’s feelings about life along with the passion to reconcile with Maria. It reveals Matt’s frustration and allows the author to show that Matt deeply cares for Maria, despite the fact that Senator Mendoza hindered their relationship. Mr. Mendoza speaks to Matt with indignation about how cruel and unfriendly he was towards Maria. He shows his true love for Maria, and while Matt feels guilty and later tries to apologize, Senator Mendoza has no remorse for him. Mr. Mendoza begins when he stated that Matt was “worse than an animal” (Farmer 133). Farmer uses the metaphor to emphasize how much Mr. Mendoza hates Matt. With effective use of personification, Mendoza then became …show more content…
He was perplexed, frightened, and bewildered by what just occurred. Matt finishes by exclaiming “I didn’t! I wouldn’t! I couldn’t do such a thing to Maria! I love her!” (Farmer 133). Clearly, Matt has a strong relationship with Maria since he shows so much fear and guilt in front of Mr. Mendoza, Maria’s father, who ultimately will approve of their relationship. The technique predominantly used in this passage is referred to as parallel structure. The author uses this technique to exasperate the desperation of Matt, and to emphasize how important Maria was to him. Farmer used ellipses to demonstrate pauses in speech; in addition, the author achieves an overwhelming effect by using hyphens as pauses. Obviously, the device also allows Farmer to reveal that Matt truly has love for Maria because he became nervous once their relationship became threatened. After Matt contemplates the entire enormity of the situation, he started to panic as he said the pronoun “I” frequently. Parallel structure, again, is used, to show the desperation of Matt in that given situation when saying “I didn’t! I wouldn’t! I couldn’t!” (Farmer
Rot & Ruin is a fiction novel written by Jonathan Maberry, set in the post-zombie apocalypse. The novel was released in the United States September 2010. 14 years after the zombie outbreak, this book follows Benny Imura five months after he turns fifteen as he looks for a job so that his rations won’t be cut in half. This is a third-person narrative that follows the protagonist, Benny Imura. Benny is 15 years old pale, somewhat skinny, has brown hair, and dark green eyes. Benny needs a job to live in Mountainside, a town in the Sierra Nevadas in Central California, and reluctantly joins his half-brother, Tom Imura, in the zombie-hunting business and discovers the reality of the business.
The informal language and intimacy of the poem are two techniques the poet uses to convey his message to his audience. He speaks openly and simply, as if he is talking to a close friend. The language is full of slang, two-word sentences, and rambling thoughts; all of which are aspects of conversations between two people who know each other well. The fact that none of the lines ryhme adds to the idea of an ordinary conversation, because most people do not speak in verse. The tone of the poem is rambling and gives the impression that the speaker is thinking and jumping from one thought to the next very quickly. His outside actions of touching the wall and looking at all the names are causing him to react internally. He is remembering the past and is attempting to suppress the emotions that are rising within him.
The book, “The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer is a 3 time award winner and a fantastic novel in the genre of utopia and dystopia. Matt is a clone saved from the burden of having a blunted intelligence. Evidence from the book supports this was a faulty move. The novel also says why El Patron blunts their intelligence; it's fully out of greed. Overwhelmingly, it seems that these things played a big part in the outcome of the novel, and why Matt is such a interesting, dimensional character in the book.
Imagine a world with clones and drug dealing as a daily occurrence. People are in a state of confusion and it is very chaotic. Things change constantly. This is a very similar world in comparison to the book. There are many clones and harvesting of clones. El Patron, one of the main characters, is a drug lord who deals drug. The characters in the House of the Scorpion show courage and fear, but to have courage you have to have a fear which is why the author usually uses these concepts together.
Yet as we journey from the dark to the light in Aeschylus, we cannot leave the dark behind – the darkness breeds the light.
“Vengekeep Prophecies” written by Brian Farrey is a good book for kids. The main message of this week's reading is always be careful who you come upon. If you don’t be careful of who you come upon, you’ll meet someone who you really like. If you meet someone, then you’ll have to betray that person which will make them really sad. You’ll have to betray that person because you might get orders from your leader to betray that person. In this case Jaxter got orders from Edilman to betray the Dowager. First this happened, Jaxter meets Da’s long lost friend and they unite together to help save Vengekeep. (Da is Jaxter’s Dad)After that this happened, Jaxter and Callie finds out that Edilman has the “Death Sentence”.
him. He tries to go back to raping peasants, but he can’t lift them up
Farmer’s novel, The House of the Scorpion, follows a character by the name of Matteo Alacrán, who is a clone living in the futuristic world where huge advances and discoveries of scientific technologies have been completed. Matt faces constant hardships from other people, and is treated poorly as if he is an animal, just because he is a clone. In The House of the Scorpion, Farmer creates a futuristic society in which a very powerful person, by the name of E...
In the novel, "The House of the Scorpion", the author has a specific intended message she wants readers to understand after reading this book. The intended message is, extending your time at the cost of others will only lessen the quality of your life. El Patron has lived 147 years of his life at the cost of his clones being created then murdered. With his extended life, he seems more about his surroundings than everyone else. He's seen the joy of life as it's the reason why he's keeps stretching his time but he's had his fair shares of horrors and greed. The joy in his life can be concluded to occur through his natural time, before he started using his clones. The horrors began, because when everyone he loved died and he was left alone and
The House of the Scorpion may be a book about a fictional country, but in reality, it is living proof that fiction can be something much more than the name might suggest. It is proof that, through an action-packed story, not only is it possible to be entertained and take a step back from the hustle and bustle of the real world, but it is possible to accrue invaluable knowledge, in this case, most notably about the choices you make in life and identity. The plot line is one that entertains, but it is clear that the author, Nancy Farmer, had much nobler intentions as well.
Dumont often incorporates blank spaces between words for emphasis. In line three, there is an unusual spacing between the word "born" and "from the belly". This emphasizes the depth of the speaker 's emotion, allowing the readers to interpret that the love the speaker feels is sincere and deep. The blank spaces also illuminates a sense of distance, describing the relationship the speaker now shares with the person he/ she
During the Best Quality chapter interoperated by Jing-Mei Woo (June) a lot happens. The chapter starts off in the present where June is wearing the Jade pendant. June does not know what the Jade necklace means, besides ‘life’s importance’, so when she see someone else wearing a similar necklace she asks them what the story is behind it. June does not get an answer. The chapter then turns into a flashback. June and her mother were preparing for the Chinese New Year’s dinner. They got coerced into buying an eleventh crab with a broken leg, a sign of bad luck. While shopping June’s mother tells her about how the tenant’s annoying cat was missing and the tenants believed her mother had poisoned it, and June assumes her mother had poisoned the cat as well. During dinner Waverly gives her daughter a crab, meaning someone had to get the crab with the broken leg. June tries to take it, but is stopped by her mother. Dinner turns into a fight between Waverly and June; June, who is embarrassed, then leaves the table to go clean up. Her mother then comes into the kitchen and talks to June. She gives June the Jade pendant explaining that it represents “life’s importance”, and that Waverly is like the crab, without the leg and walks sideways. The chapter
The novel has confused many critics and readers because it reads like poetry, yet in actuality it is a narrative. Cisneros admits that many of the vignettes are "lazy poems." This means that they could be poems if she had taken the time to finish them (Olivares 145). At many times throughout the novel the words rhyme and can almost be put to a catchy tune. For example, the chapter "Geraldo No Last Name" reads like a poem with end rhyme and a structured pattern. "Pretty too, and young. Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can't remember which one" (Cisneros 65).
...oes hand in hand with the structure of the poem as well; bringing about a certain rhythm through punctuation and line breaks. It is this rhythm brings out the repetition and clash of elements especially with parentheses, which allows us to look at the element of starvation while considering the reaction of the press.
Mtshali has used enjambment in this poem to create dramatic pauses after substantial comments such as;