Amazingly, the more I read the more I am engaged into the book. I have now read up to page 50 and from the way this book started I didn't think it would as interesting as it is now and the plot seems much different. As an example the book started out in a laboratory or a place where a man was testing on cows and now the story is all about this little boy Matt. From the chapters that I have read so far they have brought up many questions. In the previous chapters there were two kids that came to Matt's house while his guardian was at work and he didn't talk to them so they left. The next day they came back and Matt was very eager to play with them but the door and the windows were shut tight and he had no keys. Because of his desperation to play with these kids he took a pot and broke the window. Later on Matt jumped out of the window to get to the kids and his hands and feet landed on the shards of glass. Immediately the kids took him to their house, which happened to be the Big House where Celia worked. The maids were taking care of Matt and helping him until the children's father came and was very uptight, scary, and not friendly whatsoever. When he took a look at Matt's foot he found a code/tattoo on his foot and told everyone that he was a clone. That really confused me because Matt had no response to that and then all of the children had become very frightened of him. Matt acted as if it was normal and had no comment and the writing on his foot read "Property of the Alacran Estate," which I find very odd because that is the name of the home of the children. So what I can tell from that is Matt is a clone that was made at the house of the children. The father ordered everyone to leave and Matt was left alone. I just think it is very strange by the way that Matt handled this whole situation of being a clone and the kids would ask him questions and he answered normally and is seemed as if he knew he was a clone all along. However, in the book it said, “He wondered why El Patron was so frightening, since the man was said to be old and weak. Matt knew he was El Patron’s clone, but he was unclear about the meaning of the word. Perhaps El Patron had loaned him to Celia and would someday want him back (Farmer 37). From what I can tell is seems as if Matt knows he is a clone but doesn’t know what a clone is so that might be why he is reacting the way he is but I also think it is odd how Celia has never mentioned anything to Matt but it does make sense to why Celia said that Matt was only loaned to her. I also wonder if Matt is ever going to see Celia because she works at the house he is currently at so why wouldn’t Matt be able to see her and why are the people at the Big House treating Matt as if her were a prisoner? The more I read the more things make sense and sometimes I feel like I am trying to solve a mystery. What I am predicting for the next chapters is that Matt is a clone and he is going to be going on a journey to find who he really is. Also all of the children liked Matt until they found out he was a clone and since they realized that they have all been very distant and afraid of Matt. But there is one girl Maria who still likes Matt regardless and I think that is because they are about the same age, and there was a part in the book where Maria was constantly asking Matt question like if he grows hair and characteristics of a clone because she was scared of him (because he is clone) but still wanted to be his friend. So I think she is still going to be his friend throughout his journey on finding who he his.
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