The book starts off with Matt being a little boy living with his Keeper, Celia. Celia tells Matt that he cannot go outside because of the monsters, Matt being a young boy believes her. Matt soon discovers that the outside world is not full of monsters, but is quite dangerous. One night Matt had company, but the company left and Matt still wanted to play, leading to him smashing a window and inadvertently ends up cutting himself. He was rushed to a nearby infirmary, and was soon discovered to be the clone of El Patron. This caused fear in those who brought him to the infirmary because El Patron, the one man whom runs and rules the entire country.
I think that this book was great, and quite often surprised me with a turn in scene. I enjoyed reading about Maria and Matt, whom both fall in love. Each character in the book is made separately, each with there own image. I feel that this book deserves a 9/10 rating because of how unique it is. This book will keep you at the edge of your seat, exhilarating, and heart pounding, a book to read over & over. I recommend this book to readers whom enjoy a novel full of adventure.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Monday, 4 June 2012
(Quentin) House of the Scorpion Review
The book begins with Matt, the main character, living with his “mom,” Celia. He has to stay inside his house all day because “monsters” come out at night, and he believes her. One day kids come by the house where Matt lives, and because of the loneliness of not leaving the house for so long, Matt disobeys Celia, and breaks a window to go and play with them. Although the glass cuts Matts feet so the other kids brought him to a infirmary in a mansion. There he found out that he was a clone of El Patron, the most powerful man in the world...
This book was a great novel that often caught me off guard. The characters are perfectly made, and everything is connected quite well. I would give this book a 9/10. This book will leave you clinging for more after just the few first pages, I recommend it to anyone looking for a adventure novel.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Monday, 16 April 2012
Matt vs Vincent post #5
Matt and Vincent, 2 people from different worlds who are the same in many ways and different in many ways. One example would be how they were both treated like a lower class of humans, and the reason that they were is completely opposite. Vincent is considered lower class because he isn't genetically modified to be perfect like most other people on earth, while Matt is considered lower class because he is a clone, and so forth considered livestock. Although the way both of them solved these problems is completely opposite to what we are taught today. Both of them ran away from their problems, making new identities for themselves. Matt becoming El Patron, and Vincent pretending to be a genetically modified person. I doubt the writers were thinking about this when the made the book/movie, but then again it could easily be views the other way around by saying something like they both had problems that they tried to fix. Though this could be argued in Matt's case because he relied on other people to get him away from El Patron, Celia gave him poison so his heart wouldn't work with El Patron, Tam Lin snuck him out of Opium, Ton Ton got him away from the keepers, and Maria's Mom saved him threw legal actions.
So ultimately there are many ways that Vincent and Matt are alike, but I think Vincent had to live a much harder life then Matt, because Vincent had to come up with plans to stay away from cops, had to become a entirely different person, and had to leave behind everyone he cared about to complete his dream. While Matt had a great life other then being really bad socially, but at the end of the book even that is fine. Sure he may have had a horrible time when Rosa was taking care of him, but the way he was treated afterwards made up for that.
So ultimately there are many ways that Vincent and Matt are alike, but I think Vincent had to live a much harder life then Matt, because Vincent had to come up with plans to stay away from cops, had to become a entirely different person, and had to leave behind everyone he cared about to complete his dream. While Matt had a great life other then being really bad socially, but at the end of the book even that is fine. Sure he may have had a horrible time when Rosa was taking care of him, but the way he was treated afterwards made up for that.
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Chris Post #4
The House Of The Scorpion is set in the future where there are things like hovercrafts, eejits, and much more, but is any of this even possible? The chances of many of these things ever being widely used is very slim. For example there is a low chance of a hovercraft ever being widely used because it would be harder to make. Meaning it would cost more money and probably use more power, and although a hovercraft can go over buildings, and beat traffic, that is all it can do better then a car can do right now. So unless someone finds a super cheap and affordable way to make hovercrafts, then they will never be widely sold.
Another thing to look at is the eejits, but mostly the ethics of someone who would make something like computer chips that you put in peoples brains so they don't do anything accept what they are told. The problem is that we don't know how they were made though so we can't rule out anything. It is a possibility that someone made the chip for animals, but El Patron paid someone to make it work for humans as well. Although if El Patron did make it work on humans chances are news would not get out about it because the only people he might share it to are the other farms in Opium, and other major country's. So unless other country's leaked the computer chip information (which they wouldn't because Opium is one of the most powerful country's in the world and other country's are scared of it), or El Patron didn't care if the information got out, chance are it wouldn't be a huge deal if it did, but it would be annoying for him because there would be protesters saying it's murder.
Now this leaves 1 thing, what time period is The House Of The Scorpion set in? Judging by our current technology and our current rate of growth. i would say if we were to get to the stage of technology the world of House Of The Scorpion is set in we would have to wait another 150+ years, but then again people have tried to predict the technology's in the future and we have both beat the time they set, and didn't even get close to what other people set. So there is no real way of knowing if or when we will ever get to live in the world Nancy has set in the book.
Another thing to look at is the eejits, but mostly the ethics of someone who would make something like computer chips that you put in peoples brains so they don't do anything accept what they are told. The problem is that we don't know how they were made though so we can't rule out anything. It is a possibility that someone made the chip for animals, but El Patron paid someone to make it work for humans as well. Although if El Patron did make it work on humans chances are news would not get out about it because the only people he might share it to are the other farms in Opium, and other major country's. So unless other country's leaked the computer chip information (which they wouldn't because Opium is one of the most powerful country's in the world and other country's are scared of it), or El Patron didn't care if the information got out, chance are it wouldn't be a huge deal if it did, but it would be annoying for him because there would be protesters saying it's murder.
Now this leaves 1 thing, what time period is The House Of The Scorpion set in? Judging by our current technology and our current rate of growth. i would say if we were to get to the stage of technology the world of House Of The Scorpion is set in we would have to wait another 150+ years, but then again people have tried to predict the technology's in the future and we have both beat the time they set, and didn't even get close to what other people set. So there is no real way of knowing if or when we will ever get to live in the world Nancy has set in the book.
Monday, 9 April 2012
The Reality of the House of the Scorpion, blog post #4
The House Of The Scorpion is set in the future where there are things like hovercrafts, eejits, and much more, but is any of this even possible? The chances of many of these things ever being widely used is very slim. For example there is a low chance of a hovercraft ever being widely used because it would be harder to make. Meaning it would cost more money and probably use more power, and although a hovercraft can go over buildings, and beat traffic, that is all it can do better then a car can do right now. So unless someone finds a super cheap and affordable way to make hovercrafts, then they will never be widely sold.
Another thing to look at is the eejits, but mostly the ethics of someone who would make something like computer chips that you put in peoples brains so they don't do anything accept what they are told. The problem is that we don't know how they were made though so we can't rule out anything. It is a possibility that someone made the chip for animals, but El Patron paid someone to make it work for humans as well. Although if El Patron did make it work on humans chances are news would not get out about it because the only people he might share it to are the other farms in Opium, and other major country's. So unless other country's leaked the computer chip information (which they wouldn't because Opium is one of the most powerful country's in the world and other country's are scared of it), or El Patron didn't care if the information got out, chance are it wouldn't be a huge deal if it did, but it would be annoying for him because there would be protesters saying it's murder.
Now this leaves 1 thing, what time period is The House Of The Scorpion set in? Judging by our current technology and our current rate of growth. i would say if we were to get to the stage of technology the world of House Of The Scorpion is set in we would have to wait another 150+ years, but then again people have tried to predict the technology's in the future and we have both beat the time they set, and didn't even get close to what other people set. So there is no real way of knowing if or when we will ever get to live in the world Nancy has set in the book.
Another thing to look at is the eejits, but mostly the ethics of someone who would make something like computer chips that you put in peoples brains so they don't do anything accept what they are told. The problem is that we don't know how they were made though so we can't rule out anything. It is a possibility that someone made the chip for animals, but El Patron paid someone to make it work for humans as well. Although if El Patron did make it work on humans chances are news would not get out about it because the only people he might share it to are the other farms in Opium, and other major country's. So unless other country's leaked the computer chip information (which they wouldn't because Opium is one of the most powerful country's in the world and other country's are scared of it), or El Patron didn't care if the information got out, chance are it wouldn't be a huge deal if it did, but it would be annoying for him because there would be protesters saying it's murder.
Now this leaves 1 thing, what time period is The House Of The Scorpion set in? Judging by our current technology and our current rate of growth. i would say if we were to get to the stage of technology the world of House Of The Scorpion is set in we would have to wait another 150+ years, but then again people have tried to predict the technology's in the future and we have both beat the time they set, and didn't even get close to what other people set. So there is no real way of knowing if or when we will ever get to live in the world Nancy has set in the book.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Celia Illegal Immigration- Post #3
I will be writing about why I think that Celia did run across the Border, why she went to a coyote, and what was she thinking during the process.
Article Here
I think and feel that this article represents, and relates to Celia’s story of crossing the border because this article talks about coyotes, and what they do and why. It also talks about jobs, and what it is that makes people want to cross the border for them.
Article Here
I think and feel that this article represents, and relates to Celia’s story of crossing the border because this article talks about coyotes, and what they do and why. It also talks about jobs, and what it is that makes people want to cross the border for them.
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