The Scorpion Annotated Bibliography

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Esquivel, Laura. Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies. Anchor Books, 1995. This romantic classic must have already harvested gallons of tears from its readers, for its sorrow times, at the least! Living in a house with a sinister family tradition followed by generations before her, Tita mourns everyday for her fate of losing the privilege to marry someone. Not only as the youngest daughter does she have to serve her mom till death decides to take her mother away, Tita has live in the same household with her former sweetheart, married to her oldest sister. Unable to endure the injustice and cruelty in her life, the sixteen-year-old …show more content…

The House of the Scorpion. Atheneum for Young Readers, 2002. A wonderful, futuristic book by Nancy Farmer, that addresses the possible dystopia the future might bring, The House of the Scorpion, starts with the clone of the most powerful person in the world finding his way back home to the mansion he belonged in, where he was kept safely as the ‘Property of the Alacran Estate’. Growing up in the enormous mansion, life seemed to be going well… until Matt realized the atrocious purpose of his hostile birth in the human world. In the chaos of this sudden realization of certain death, the boy runs away to a new world, in hot pursuit of him, was his former loyal bodyguards.
This thrilling young adult book never lets a reader put it down, literally! Winning the John Newbery medal, and other awards, Farmer has written yet another successful novel suited for young adults, that show grit and pain in a fictional outcast. Her works were always based off a life-lesson; and this proves to be about the painful force of coming-of-age. Although, this work doesn’t have much sophistication and advanced sentence structure to it, the plotful story turns out to indulge readers in a hypothetical world unknown to the …show more content…

At the end of the first book, The House of the Scorpion, former clone Matt finds out he is the sole heir to the Él Patron drug empire. Learning a few tricks to act like a proper drug lord, he decides to fix Opium and end the evil drug trade. He begins this process by healing the eejits, humans embedded with microchips that render them docile slaves. Matt is immediately compassionate towards them, but it soon becomes apparent that no doctor is able to fix the sinful mistake left at Matt’s feet by the original Matteo

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