Tegan Blog Post #1

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Im wondering how the title fits into the story. Some title references I have found is that some of the servants at "The Big House" were wearing scorpion pendants. I wonder how Matt feels about all this because since it is in third person it doesn't really tell you about how he is feeling while all this is happening. 


Some hints of the setting i have found:
Page 6 - “He’d looked out the window where the fields of white poppies stretched all the way to the shadowy hills.”

What i get from this is that the setting is in a sunny and nice place so that the poppies would grow in such a number.
page 9- “I didn’t think anyone was allowed to live in the opium fields.”
Knowing it was around opium fields makes me believe it could be near mexico. Also the names of the foods they eat sound quite Mexican. page 11- “quesadillas and enchiladas for dinner.” it also says that matts care giver was cooking Aztlano food. Also matt speaks both english and spanish and alot of the names in this book are spanish: Pedro, Marîa, Benito, Emilia.
Page 57- El Patron rambled to matt about his youth in Aztlan which was called mexico and he came from a place called Durango. People from durango were called alacran which means scorpion.

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• One thing that struck me about this section was the way people treated Matt. Everyone was 

• so mean to him and he almost didn't even care. There were a lot of words that I had no idea  

• what they meant: Carted, rapped (different context), warren, valiantly, bleating. 

• I think that she kept matt intact because on page 4 it says that Matteo Alacran which are always intact. So basically she stopped Eduardo from 

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  using a needle that would lower Matt's intelligence. I kind of wonder why they would make them not as intelligent in the first place but she wanted to keep him the way he was. In the beginning chapter it suggests that there were other Matteo clones created because she said they were always left intact.