Have you ever treated treated someone badly and then they treated you poorly back? The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer is about Matt, who is a clone of a Mexican drug lord, El Patron. Matt is struggling to find out who he is and to survive. This book can have many themes but the one I think fits best is disrespecting others would lead them to disrespect you. Evidence for this theme can be seen when Matt meets Tom (chapter 5), when El Patron had his second heart attack (chapter 21), and when Jorge was about to whip Fidelito (chapter 32). Let us take a closer look when Matt meets Tom in the next paragraph.
As said in the first paragraph, this paragraph is about Matt meeting Tom in chapter five. Tom is a little brat, that was meant to
As said in the first paragraph, this paragraph is about Matt meeting Tom in chapter five. Tom is a little brat, that was meant to