The house of the scorpion. Characters

Matt: is the protagonist in this story. He is a clone of El Patron. He was created so he could be used for transplants when El Patron’s organs failed in order to prolong El Patron’s life. Matt was very sheltered as a child. he didn’t know much of the outside world he didn’t even know what grass smelled like. During the story (after escaping the house and getting hurt) Matt was put into a prison like environment changing the characteristics of Matt into a hurt boy that learned that words would lead to pain. I’m looking forward to see what happens to the characteristics of this boy as the mood of his environment changes around him.

EL patron: the original matteo. He is a a powerful drug lord that creats clones for the purpes of taking there orgains to live longer.

Tom: son of felicia and mr.MacGregor. He costantly tormants matt with crule words of how he is a clone.

Maria: younger daughter of senator Mendoza. shes one of Matts few friends.

Celia: chif cook of the big house. She also takes care of Matt. Matt costantly thinks of her as his mom.

Tam Lin:Bodyguard for El Patron and Matt. Matt thinks of Tam Lin as a friend

House of the Scorpion - Character Questions
1. Q. Why does El Partron create clones?

2. Q. How is Matt treated as a clone of El Parton?

 3.Q. Why does Matt chose Tam Lin as his bodyguard?

 4.Q. As El Patron's clone is Matt like El Parton?

 5.Q. Who is Mr. Mendoza?

 6.Q. Who is Esperanza?

 7.Q. What is an Eejit?

 8.Q. Why did Rosa neglect Matt?

9.Q. Who is Celia?

 10.Q. How do El Patron's descendants behave towards Matt?

House of the Scorpion Setting

The house of the scorpion is a great book, the setting is in between Mexico and America. At the beginning of this book the setting starts off in a little house in the poppie fields. As the book goes on the setting changes, from a little house to a very large house with a beautiful garden. Many people live in the house so the house must be much bigger then an average house. One part of the book, Matt and Tam lin go through the poppie fields to get to this beautiful little pond. Much can change though through out the rest of the book.

Questions:

1. What does the setting in this book remind you of?

2.Why is the setting good or bad?

3.What do you think made the author decide the setting?

4. How could the name of the book be related to the setting?

5.How do you think the book would change if the setting was swtched from Mexico to Canada?

6.If there was no setting how would the book change?

7.How would the book change if it was placed in a different time?

8.What if the setting was in 1970, how do you think the book would change?

9.  How do you think the setting would change if it was during the world war one

10. How do you think the setting would change if matt was rasied in a big house instead of Celia's house?