Blog Post #2 - Setting

The setting in this book has not changed much. Almost the entire book except for during flash backs is placed in the Alacrans home. The Alacrans home is a large estate in which quite a few people have taken residents. 

Setting is a large part of books, t can determine how you feel about something, what you think about certain characters, or even if you like a book. Farmer has chosen the setting she has for a specific reason. A possibility for Farmer's reasoning behind the setting is that it is rather distant, vacant and different. In this book it talks a lot of acceptance and being different. The House Of the Scorpion is a different type of book and by adding in that sort of outcast setting you are allowing for the book to flourish further more. 

Another possible reason behind why Farmer would have chose this setting is because of the story line. The story line talks about an extraordinarily rich, powerful man whom wishes to keep this clone, Matt, in safety. For myself, it would only make sense to bring something you want to keep safe to a guarded, large and again safe environment. by placing the majority of this book in a remote place, with a large house and the only people around either know about the clone or are "eejits", makes complete sense.

Although the setting is place, for majority of the time, in one specific place, I do believe that the flashbacks on places like Celia and El Patrón’s home town are going to have some impact or effect in the future. Farmer may have done this as another example of foreshadowing, but I think that for sure they will have some part in the future of the book.