Holly's 4th Blog Entry

In chapter 23, El Patron’s motives start to unravel and truly show. In that chapter, I think that El Patron finally showed his true colours to Matt. Everyone else seemed to know El Patron, but never informed Matt. Tam Lin thought he was clever enough to figure it out. In Chapter 15, Matt describes the mansion with everyone gone. He says The house was like a stage with all the actors missing.” on page 146.The first thing that came to my mind was that El Patron is the director. He controls everything. Who people marry, what people do, and which people he owns. “Everyone had known for years that Steven and Emilia were going to get married. El Patron had decreed it. He wanted to bind the Alacrans to the powerful political machine Senator Mendoza ruled in the United States. It was simply good luck that Steven and Emilia liked each other. If they hadn’t, it wouldn’t have mattered.” Matt says on page 204. El Patron does everthing for a certain reason. The decisoun might be for his personal desires, or it might be for the gain of his whole empire.

I am also curious about this idea of eejits. The History Of Opium, written by Esperanza in the book, states that it is an evil way to control and manipulate people. It is sick and inhumane, which I agree with. Of course it is inhumane to control people by putting a computer chip in their brain, but in this sort of situation, some might think it is the most humane option. Instead of allowing the people to deal with their own emotions and mental state, just put them to sleep. The way Matt acted when Rosa put him in a cell was how he dealt with his situation. How would the workers deal with their situation? Should they just have to deal with what they have done and what has happened like Tam Lin, Or should they be put to sleep? I think that it depends on their certain situation. The workers that slash the opium fields everyday and nothing more should be m an eejit because that job is cruel to begin with. On page 202, Matt decides he wants to run away, “Esperanza’s book had opened his eyes to the horrors of the empire El Patron had built, and he had seen for himself the low, dark dwellings of the eejits that were no better than coffins.” but he chooses to wait until after the wedding because Maira would be there. i think that this is foreshadowing of what might happen later in the book. Matt will run away with Maria, or to be with Maria. The flower girls however, was a sick idea to make into eejits. Weddings are supposed to be a happy and life filled occasions. Farmer chose well to make the flower girls eejits because it really elaborates on what kind of kingdom El Patron runs. The reason behind the eejit flower girls in the book was that normal girls would not be able to do the job correctly. This idea that normal girls unable to do a good job is quite interesting as well. Perhaps it will be elaborated or surfaced later in the book.