Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium — a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster — except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.
As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacran Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.
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ReplyDelete1.Why is the book called The House of the Scorpion?
2 Literal:
1.Are the characters Mexican?
2.If they are Mexican, where do they live?
Maybe later in the book scorpions get involved, OR someone's nickname is The Scorpion
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ReplyDelete1 Does El Patrón die?
2 How does Matt find out that he is a clone?
3 What happened to Rosa after she was taken away?
4 Did Tom put the dog in the toilet?
2 Literal:
ReplyDelete1)Does Maria not like him after he bites her?
2)How long was Matt locked up?
1 Inferential:
1)Why did Rosa want to help him at first, but then want to kill him at one point?
I have a different question.
How many bugs or creatures did Matt find, when he was locked up?
Maybe Rosa liked him at first and wanted to help him, but then later she might have hated him and wanted to kill him.
DeleteMatt finds out he's a clone when El Patrón says "Of course. He's my clone. Tell me, Mi Vida, do you like cookies?" on page 57.
ReplyDelete1.) Why does Maria want sit next to Tom, when she knows that he put the dog in the toilet?
ReplyDelete2.) Did Mr.MacGregor get the thing that El Patrón got when make him look younger or something?
3.) What time is during the book, and when they're having the celebration?
1-2:Literal Questions 3:Inferential
2: maybe
ReplyDeleteI don't understand question 3, do you mean when does the book take place, or do you mean something else?
My overall rating on this book is: 7 out of 10
ReplyDeleteIt was a good book, but some of it wasn't really exciting.
For Q3 I mean what time it is and year time, is what I mean.
ReplyDeleteMy rating of this book is the same as yours because it was a good book but it was kinda of boring.