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chapter 1-25 free write
chapter 1-25 free write
So i finished reading the entire book so its going to be hard to clear away the last 10 chapters and chapters 1-25 were really boring compared to the last 10 chapters. So I think that the author has a very creative mind I hated Tom in this book. I really did and Tom was in the book a lot in the beginning but as the book went on he slowly and slowly started not showing up as much. During these chapters I started to hate El Patron more and more. And the thing is Matt really is completely different from El Patron. I made a connection with Matt and El Patron to the movie My Sisters Keeper because the sister was born for spare parts for the sister with cancer and then the sister with cancer died because she couldn't get the parts she needed. That is the same that happened with El Patron because Matt couldn't give El Patron parts because Celia poisoned Matt so that El Patron’s body wasn’t strong enough for the parts and Matt protested against it anyway. It says this on page 236.
El Patron is so selfish it is unbelievable especially near the end. The thing i liked about this book is that from page 200 to the rest of the book Tom was hardly mentioned and I hate Tom so that was something i really liked. I found it kind of weird that almost everyone in El Patron’s family died. At the beginning of the book, it was all about how matt was an animal. As the book went on, it was everyone but Matt that seemed to be becoming animals. Matt seemed to be the only one who actually kept his sanity. The book kind of went from being about Matt, to being about everything that was happening around Matt.
El Patron is so selfish it is unbelievable especially near the end. The thing i liked about this book is that from page 200 to the rest of the book Tom was hardly mentioned and I hate Tom so that was something i really liked. I found it kind of weird that almost everyone in El Patron’s family died. At the beginning of the book, it was all about how matt was an animal. As the book went on, it was everyone but Matt that seemed to be becoming animals. Matt seemed to be the only one who actually kept his sanity. The book kind of went from being about Matt, to being about everything that was happening around Matt.
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Article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/illegal-migration-from-mexico-falls-but-local-fears-persist.html?_r=1&ref=illegalimmigrants
At the End of chapter 14 Celia tells Matt about her past. Basically, Celia met a coyote which was a man who takes people over the border as it says on page 142. Celia was taken by the farm patrol. A real world applications that relate is illegal immigration. Celia lived on The border of Aztlan and the United states. She had lived their all her life until she had met the Coyote who tried to take her accross the borders where she was caught by farm patrol. After this she belonged to El Patron. I Think that Celia turned to the Coyote because she didn’t want to live in that same grey building the rest of her life with other workers. Celia always dreamed of going to the United States even though she knew how dangerous it was.
There is an article in the new york times about how in Mexico and Arizona the amount of illegal immigrants have decreased but now the illegal immigrants that do come over are potentially more dangerous and sometimes bring illegal substances. I think that this relates to what happened in The House Of The Scorpion because Celia illegally crossed the border to the United States and this happens quite alot in the real world.
In the article, it says that There was an expansion of border patrol of more then 21 000 agents along with survalience systems. A recent arrest was found with nearly 40 pounds of herion in his backpack. There were nearly 500 assaults on federal officers along the arizona border. It just goes to show what people would do to get into a country.
Article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/illegal-migration-from-mexico-falls-but-local-fears-persist.html?_r=1&ref=illegalimmigrants
At the End of chapter 14 Celia tells Matt about her past. Basically, Celia met a coyote which was a man who takes people over the border as it says on page 142. Celia was taken by the farm patrol. A real world applications that relate is illegal immigration. Celia lived on The border of Aztlan and the United states. She had lived their all her life until she had met the Coyote who tried to take her accross the borders where she was caught by farm patrol. After this she belonged to El Patron. I Think that Celia turned to the Coyote because she didn’t want to live in that same grey building the rest of her life with other workers. Celia always dreamed of going to the United States even though she knew how dangerous it was.
There is an article in the new york times about how in Mexico and Arizona the amount of illegal immigrants have decreased but now the illegal immigrants that do come over are potentially more dangerous and sometimes bring illegal substances. I think that this relates to what happened in The House Of The Scorpion because Celia illegally crossed the border to the United States and this happens quite alot in the real world.
In the article, it says that There was an expansion of border patrol of more then 21 000 agents along with survalience systems. A recent arrest was found with nearly 40 pounds of herion in his backpack. There were nearly 500 assaults on federal officers along the arizona border. It just goes to show what people would do to get into a country.
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I really like the way the characterization is organized in this book. Since the book is written in third person, you never really know what emotions Matt is going through. I wish the author had kind of gave more hints as to what Matt looks like so that I would have had a better visual in my head of him while I was reading. The author only gives little hints of each character of their personalities. The author tells us about Matt’s hatred for Tom and also shows Tom’s ignorance and rudeness. The author has also shown Matt’s affection towards Maria.
Celia is a mother figure towards Matt as she is his care giver, but not his real mother and at the beginning of the book she got mad at Matt for calling her mama. However, Celia does care alot about Matt because when Matt was in prison Celia came for him and was worried sick about him. The thing I like about Celia is that she sees Matt and treats him as an actual human being and not as an animal. I picture Matt as tall, skinny, very tan since he lives somewhere near Mexico, brown eyes and messy ear length black hair. I also picture him not wearing shoes for some reason, and I think I do just because in my mind it seems to fit with the setting.
I find that in this book you learn alot about Matt’s traits from Tom because Tom is Matt’s foil and is almost the opposite of Matt. Tom brings out Matt’s anger and gives us a bit more information about Matt. Without Tom, we wouldn’t know very much about Matt.
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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.
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
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.
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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