How would you feel if you had to live with the fact that you could get your freedom taken away at any time? In Nancy Farmers novel The House Of The Scorpion, workers are able to inject people with a chip that causes them to become brain-dead. These people, known as “eejits” are used as workers so that the opium business can thrive. It is a big controversy since it is such a big decision that has so many negative effects. Imagine having a perfectly normal life and then one day it all changes and you have to live your life as an eejit. Turning people into eejits is unethical; even though they are very efficient workers, they are unable to do anything without instructions and also have no freedom or personality.
Although the act of turning people into eejits is unethical, they are still very efficient workers. Normal people typically wouldn’t work from dusk till dawn like these …show more content…
They aren’t physically capable of doing anything without the supervisors there to specifically tell them what to do. During the walk that Matt and Tam Lin went on, they came across one of the eejits bodies. Matt was concerned, but Tam Lin attempted to comfort him by telling him that he probably just didn’t hear the announcements. This shows that just because that man didn’t hear the instructions, he continued to work causing him to die of starvation or dehydration. Another example of this is when Matt and Tam Lin were riding the horses. When they took a break the horse was standing in front of the water without drinking any. Tam Lin had to specifically tell the horse to drink in order to keep him alive, if not they could have died. Too many innocent lives are being lost and people suffering just to get work done. They are all stuck living this life with these consequences all thanks to this system that can ruin lives. Therefore, the creation of eejits should not be
Although the act of turning people into eejits is unethical, they are still very efficient workers. Normal people typically wouldn’t work from dusk till dawn like these …show more content…
They aren’t physically capable of doing anything without the supervisors there to specifically tell them what to do. During the walk that Matt and Tam Lin went on, they came across one of the eejits bodies. Matt was concerned, but Tam Lin attempted to comfort him by telling him that he probably just didn’t hear the announcements. This shows that just because that man didn’t hear the instructions, he continued to work causing him to die of starvation or dehydration. Another example of this is when Matt and Tam Lin were riding the horses. When they took a break the horse was standing in front of the water without drinking any. Tam Lin had to specifically tell the horse to drink in order to keep him alive, if not they could have died. Too many innocent lives are being lost and people suffering just to get work done. They are all stuck living this life with these consequences all thanks to this system that can ruin lives. Therefore, the creation of eejits should not be