The House of the Scorpion: Blog Post Four

I have been really enjoying my outside reading book The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer. As I was reading a came across a very important and interesting quote that I would like to analyze, "A long, long time ago some doctors took a piece of skin from El Patron. The froze it so it would keep. Then, about eight years ago, they took a but of that skin and grew it into a whole new El Patron. Only they had to start at the beginning with a baby. That was you" (Farmer 80). While Matt was staying at the big house he found out that he was a clone. However, Matt never knew what a clone was and just accepted the fact that he was one. One day his body guard Tam Lanin took him to this grassy area to have a picnic and told him how he was created and what a clone actually was. This really changed Matt because he finally knew what he actually was and why people reacted the way the did towards him.  

Since El Patron, the man who created matt, started to take care of Matt and make sure that people respected him Matt because a new person. Matt has kind of become very cocky and full of himself. Matt was very talented in everything he did, music, reading, languages, math etc. Once he realized what a clone actually was he seemed to not care what others said about him or how they viewed him because you new he was good at everything he did and if someone did something to him, El Patron always had his back. Matt has started to lose his best friend Maria because he is becoming more arrogant and not caring for her feelings. El Patron is spoiling him and I think it is all going to his head because it is not the same Matt that I knew a few chapters ago. I am not sure what this is all going to lead to and I think that Matt thinks he as at the top of all the people and regardless of him being a clone no one is better then him. The further along I get in the book the more I feel like Matt is losing friends and is trying to get people to be his friend in a bad way. He is lying to his friend Maria about who hid her dog and is just trying to get the whole world to love him no matter what extents he has to go to. 

On his birthday that Matt shared with El Patron I think that was when he was at his worse. He was acting as if he was the king and no one could tell him what to do because El Patron was there. When Tam sat Matt down and told him everything about a clone I thought it would change his thoughts and actions in a different way. I thought he would be shocked and be very sensitive to what people would say to him but he did the opposite and became more arrogant and treated people horribly.