![]() He just knows that Celia keeps him hidden away from everyon else in her cottage. Matt is a clone, only he doesn't know it. Is this the fate that awaits Matt or can he escape that world and one day transform it into something much different?Ģ. A man who dragged himself from abject poverty to great power by the sheer force of his will, his cunning, and his ruthlessness. Matt had not been born at the House of the Scorpion, but he had been born from teh DNA of the man who ruled that house. Too bad for Matt that El Patron was very old and ver sick because only he stood between Matt and his enemites. And when El Patron ordered that Matt be treated like an equal and given an education, the jealousy and hatred toward him only grew. They called him animal or, even worse, monster. Many in El Patron's family despised Matt. Around the age of six, he had been discovered by El Patron's great, great grandchildren and taken to the big house - the House of the Scorpion, - to live. As a young boy, Matt had been kept almost in hiding. Matt's DNA came from the leader of a country called Opium - a strip of poppy growing fields wedged between the United States and an area that had once been called Mexico. His DNA had been placed in a Petri dish where it had divided and was then placed in the womb of a special cow where it grew from an embryo to a baby. In the traditional sense, he had not been born at all. Matteo had not been born at the House of the Scorpion. Surrounded by enemies, will Matt escape his destiny as an exact DNA match to El Patron?ġ. Matt does not know the plans El Patron has for his future. He needs organ transplants to keep him alive. As kind and protective as El Patron is toward Matt, he is old and sick. Jealousy and hatred toward Matt increases when El Patron orders that he be educated and treated as an equal. They treat him like an animal as if he is inhuman. ![]() Taken to the big house, The House of the Scorpion, to live, Matt is despised by most of the family members. His intelligence was protected at birth by El Patron unlike all of the other clones on the Alacran Estate. The injury reveals a tattoo "property of Alacran Estate." He is, in fact, a clone of the Drug Lord, El Patron who controls the poppy growing fields in Aztlan. He is discovered by two children and injures his foot while playing with them. ISBN : 0786250488 / 0689852231 (PB) / 0786250488 (LPeD) / 0606307427 (Turtle)Ĭelia keeps Matt (Matteo) hidden away from everyone in her cottage on the edge of a poppy field in Aztlan. Thus, scorpions represent the predetermined link between Matt and El Patrón, which Matt rejects when he leaves the Alacrán mansion, decorated with an image of a scorpion, but which he also embraces when he connects his DNA to the marks of scorpions in order to open locks closed to everyone but El Patrón.Publishing Information :Atheneum Books for Young Readers: New York, 2002 Scorpions further signify the link between Matt and El Patrón, as drawings of scorpions mark entrances to passageways that can only be opened up by El Patrón’s DNA, which Matt shares despite his rejection of his destiny as El Patrón’s clone. Matt rejects this presumption of scorpion-like characteristics by attempting to be kind and compassionate when El Patrón is cruel and deadly. This shows that he believes he and Matt share the same traits of viciousness and cruelty, like a couple of poisonous animals. El Patrón also describes himself and Matt as a pair of scorpions. Comparing people to scorpions shows how El Patrón often reduces people to animals, so as to justify disposing of them for his own gains. El Patrón says that Mexico is a crowded with people as it is with scorpions. “Alacrán” means scorpion in Spanish, symbolizing the family’s poisonous, back-stabbing nature. Scorpions are the emblem of the Alacrán family and represent El Patrón’s cruelty toward others, as well as the connection that exists between him and his clone, Matt.
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