Review of the Book

Overall, I thought this was an excellent book about a person who was against the world. It teaches us about how there is people out there to support and love us even when we aren't the normal or even a clone. I am going to post the back of this book just so I can look back and show you exaclty how it is bland compared to the book. The book is detailed. It shows all the emotions, and its one of those books that you can truly picture like a movie. This book has sadness, an evil plot, romance, and an escape story.
I would deffinatly recommend this book to anyone that feels like a book they cant put down. It is one of those books that you can read it 10 times over and still not get bored. I would highly recommend this to anyone.

Free Choice Blog Post - Cloning

Okay, cloning is a wierd topic to discuss because it constitutes a question of:
Is this society today ready for cloning?
Now, scientifically we are still major strides away from cloning but it constitutes the philisopical qustion of why would we need it?
How is the behaviour and ethics of humans going to take it?
Now, cloning can become a genius idea for humans to make simple tasks more affective. However, humans ethically, would not appreciate the welcoming from a double such as a clone. It would seem wierd to humans. Just as it does in the novel House of the Scorpions. However, if society adapts and learns to live with it house would that be introduced to society now and in the future? Honestly, seeing two people at once would seem wierd at first. Thinking of how clones are just self copies of us. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two therefore be confusing and open up the oppertunity to stealing identities and other conflicts. We aren't aquianted to the idea of cloning. So the ethics of cloning are deffinatly out of the question. We still have a long time to go and to adapt to cloning, but this book proves how far we are away from it.

Blog Post #3 - Real Life Farm Patrol

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So this topic dicusses how in places like Arizona, has a law to check the legal status of people they pull over for different reasons. THis tied in with Jessica's article about illegal immigration. Arizona embraces the law because of the 11 million illegal immigrants roaming around. How ever, the people call it an inaction to stop illegal immigration. They think by taking out this rule all that they are doing is just creating more work for themselves to help stop the fight against illegal immigrants. I related thius to the story about the Coyote because of Jessica's article of illigal immgiration. Looking on that side of the news aritcle people will do anything to leave there place and to go into Canada or The U.S. even trust a Coyote.    In this story the police greatly reflect the farm patrol as the opposing force.

Blog Post #2: Setting

Setting is very important topic in this book seeing as setting is what makes up a story. Without setting the book would be blunt and not informative. Basically speaking, without setting a book would look like this:
They were in the far off land of ___, doing ___, they both felt ______.


The setting in this book personally takes place in Opium, a colony built by the drug lords and others. This colony is for opium farmers, which this place in the real world is called Aztlan. This place is packed of opium farmers and eejits. Eejits are illegal immigrants that are the slaves and distribute opium.

The setting in this book being that characters mood, is mostly cheerful. Other than some people with some issues with clones, and Tom.  Mostly, cheerful, but then again when your a millionaire and One hundred and forty five you don't want that much stress in your life.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing cheerful for the Eejits. Working day after day distributing, without most of the pay. However, Farmer portrays the book as if Matts just a clone to everyone else, but to El Patron it's his life. Now I'll get into why El Patron needs Matt in the future, so I don't ruin the story. Anywho, they also don't talk about the Eejits that much, are they hiding something about them? They left the setting for the Eejits very foggy and gray, not introducing much about them at all. I know from previous statements they are slaves that distribute Opium, but how? why? where? when? I'm interested to see the work they put into it.

Blog Post #1- Foreshadowing

This blog is about foreshadowing and how Farmer offers distinct clues as to what may happen in the future. Now to begin I would first like to talk about the cover of the book itself. I think after reading what I have so far, this is not much on the book cover that suggests anything what I have read so far. This is excluding the summary because the summary is just a blunt description of the book.  I think that as well as having the cover appropriate for the name. The name is house of the scorpion, but is there really any mention of a scorpion? Now I’m just talking about the book as I read early on into it. However, the cluse that are given are misleading. Shouldn’t a book resemble the basic setting in which the story takes place? House of the scorpions. No, I think more of House of El Patron, I think this title would work way better than the first because it actually introducing something. In this case of my title, it introduces one of the main characters. Now, I’m jumping ahead seeing as at the point I am in the book not much is established. Anyhow, from what I can tell she didn’t want to put that much foreshadowing in because of the fact of suspense entailing with secrecy. Clones, as that is a generally broad topic it is introduced in the beginning of the story. Perhaps to introduce what the character really is, and why people treat him that way. Why is it also, that the chapters stop at 14? Is that a clones life span? Or some other mysterious event occurring. As I will talk more about clones when my partner and I get farther into the book. It’s interesting to see very few but obvious instances of foreshadowing.

What We Will Bring To The Group

What We Will Bring To The Group

Jessica:

I think that in this project specifically I will contribute my work skills. I love to read and I love to write so being able to read the book and write detailed blog posts will really help out our group. I also think that I will be able to be a positive group member. I can help with keeping everyone on task and up to date. I also think that I can help because when it comes to projects that I really enjoy I tend to work hard on them. Seeing as how I love reading and writing this project will allow me to show off my abilities to not only do work but to do it well and up to standards.

Corey:

I will bring to the group an aspect of inquiring deeper. I will go father than inquiry. I like to know more about the person who’s life I am reading about. As well as developing skills to help me accomplish that. I like to read a lot once I find a book that interests me enough. It’s a hard task to accomplish but I really like this book, so I will probably finish the book within a week. I like to remember things specifically about characters, which will help me with analysis.