Blog Post #1 - Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing Within The House Of The Scorpion

Foreshadowing is a huge part of this book. There are quite a few different parts in the book SO FAR that I believe are going to lead up to major events.

The first part that I noticed that had foreshadowing in it was when Rosa and Willium (the doctor) are having a conversation about Rosa going with Willium to El Patrõn's home. She says she loves him and I think that seeing as how their relationship has stayed rather secret, Matt might say something about Rosa and Willium and get them both in trouble and jeopardize there relationship.

Another part that I noticed in the book was that in the table of contents it only shows up to the age 14. This might lead to a rather large and somewhat mysterious ending. Possibly Matt is going to escape from the grasps of Rosa and everyone else in the Big House.

Another possibility is the Matt could die. This could be a major possibility because a lot of the beginning of the book talks about how the clones are not necessarily stable and there is always a possibility for them to die. The resigning behind the possibility of them dying is that in the very beginning of the book when El Patrõn is creating his clones and they are just cells, gradually over the course of a few months all but 5 died, then when they were place in the cows, another four died. As well El Patrõn and the people in the Big House stated that clones are "unstable". 

Foreshadowing might play a very large role in this book. So far a lot of the things that were mentioned in the very beginning of the book have been brought up within the last two chapter, being chapters 4 and 5. Foreshadowing is used as a warning or indication of something that is going to happen in the future. For me, in the very beginning, meaning the table of contents, it only goes up to 14 so this might be foreshadowing upon a larger event that will happen when he is that age.  

The final moment of foreshadowing that I have noticed within the first part of the book is when Celia and Maria came to Matt's window and promised to help him to escape, and even though Celia is all Matt could think about earlier he seemed rather uneasy at seeing her there at his window. All he wanted for the two of them to do at that moment was to leave. I think that this is going to cause for some drama later in the book when Celia finally does break out or get the Big House to release Matt and I don’t think Matt is going to want to leave. He said he has a found a form of peace, serenity living in his “kingdom” as he likes to call it.

So far I think that the book has a really good message being portrayed and I can’t wait to read on!