S.T Blog Post #1 and #2

Post #2:

The reason I call characterization versatile is that it really embodies all the things that make a good book, not just those that relate to the character. Although information on the character such as their physical appearance, and their daily lives is a large part of what characterization is, but another large part of describing the character is the way that the the character reacts to their environment. Although this may seem trivial at first glance, the way someone reacts to their environment conveys many things about them. Most of the time, this is how an author gives the reader a good idea of what a given character in a given book is like, such as in the Harry Potter books, when Harry is battling Voldemort, you can tell that Harry’s personality allows him to be very independent. In this book, (The House Of The Scorpions) Farmer (The author) used this strategy to completely introduce all of the characters in this book (at least up to page 100) and has done an amazing job with it!

Although characterization is the best, the other writing element (setting) is close behind, and isn’t to be forgotten. The setting of a story comes in two flavors: general, and scene-specific. The general setting would be some place like a city or province, but not a building or small place. Scene-specific on the other hand, is really only used in one scene, and is a small, usually well-described place.

Post #1:

I'm wondering... not a whole lot to be honest. After this point in the novel, thereare really only two things. The first of these things is why is the book namend that's on page 21, where it's used as a logo for maids in aho"House Of The Scorpion" because there is so far only one scorpionmentioned, ausehold. This could be seen as the reference to the house they're in as"The House of The Scorpion". Maybe this will be confirmed later on in

chapters) Rosa gave him sawdust. Fromexperience (I used to have a rabbit that lived on wood chips) I don't ththe story, or maybe there's a stronger link to be introduced.  I'm also wondering why when Matt was trapped in the jail (basically the first 5 ink that the story's author meant saw dust, but my best guess is that Nancy Farmer (the author) meant wood chips, although the difference is almost impossible to notice, but that is only a small inaccuracy. Last but not least, I'm wondering why he wanted clones in the first place, and why being a clone is such a badthing. So far, it does not explain these things, as if the whole book is justone big hook, or at least it is to this point.

In the first roundtable discussion, we talked about how the Table of contents isdivided into sections based on ages. This post is based on reading pages 1-50(that’s chapter 1-5, if you wanted to know), classified as “Youth ages 1-6” inthe table of contents. I now get why this is as the story it’s self correspondsto the table of contents. This makes sense as the story, in chapters 1-5 (“Youthages 1-6”), Matt (the main character) is those ages. It makes sense, and is kinda of cool!