Mitchell's book review.

The House of the Scorpion Review

Summary: The books was about Matteo Alacran who was different from everyone else. He had something different about him, he had no parents, didn't go to school, lives in a small house with his guardian Celia, and he was a clone. He not only lived in a tiny house and was scared, but it was on a poppy field.  When Matt saw a few kids wander by and after that Matt's whole life changes. At first he is in imprisonment, then he was treated like a king. Finally he learned the truth and the one purpose that he had. 

One thing that was good about this book was how the characters were developed. They were never really established until the end of the book. It was through the whole book. The first third of the book was really bland and boring but don't give up on it yet because it then got more exciting. As the book progressed it was betting more exciting. 

The few things that were not so great was that the climax it climaxed too early, it felt like the whole book was really boring, then really packed with excitement, then got boring again, but never really ended because they left the book with a cliff hanger. 

I would not recommend anyone to read this book as it was never really entertaining. It felt like the book could have been a whole lot shorter than it was. If someone were to read this they should be from 12 to 16 because the book was not a challenging read but it was not ridiculously easy. For people who get distracted really easy do not read this book as it was really boring. 

Overall this book was not great it was boring, ended on a cliff hanger, and to me should have been a whole lot shorter. 

Coles Book Review Post #6

Coles #6 blog post. I am going to be doing a book review for my #6 blog post.

      The house of the scorpion is a book that many people would like and many people would dislike. myself? I might put myself somewhere in between the two. The house of the scorpion had parts that were very bad and very good. For example the ending, the ending was very creative and I found it interesting but it was very abrupt kinda like everyone dies and Matt becomes leader THE END. The book was a very easy read and I think I would recommend it for anyone over the age of ten. This book showed me an extreme case of a planned economy and i would not want to be in matts position or even live where this novel took place.

       In my opinion Nancy Farmer left a lot unsaid in the novel the house of the scorpion and i think that she should right a sequel to sum things up. The setting of this novel interested me greatly and I think that if their was to be a drug country in between Mexico and The States that was allowed to be made the governments would be very stupid indeed. People would just grow or make it anyway and sell it to customers in both the States and Mexico. Then the Government would have the same problem again and most likely get abolished by drug free citizens. This book opened up eyes for some people and I like that.

Rourk's book review

The book "House Of The Scorpion" is a dramatic thriller about the future of Mexico. In this story our main character Matt goes on an adventure to learn about himself and to escape the wrath of his family. When he learns the dark truth about himself he tries to escape his family. What Matt learns will be like no other experience he has ever had...

This is not a book I really liked. The beginning and middle of the book had a very strong story but I think it ended not very well. The characters were not very described and the ending was sudden and abrupt. I did like the idea of how they talk about haw in the future the world will change dramatically for the U.S and Mexico. I think besides the ending that the book is a good book but its not very exciting. If you don't like excitement then read this book. You would love it.

Over all i think that the book is a relatively worth reading book if you like teen sci-fi books. It is a good boo if you like future based books and action/adventure books.                                          

Matt and Vincent #5

Coles #5 blog post on the relationship between Matt form The House Of The Scorpion and Vincent from Gattaca.

Matt is a young boy in a world were he is not accepted as a human being. Vincent is a grown man in a world were he isn't allowed to follow his dreams. There is a relationship between them, they are both treated like outcasts and both are male. Matts imprisonment by Rosa showed us a lot about matt in his sand kingdom. Vincent's swim competitions with his brother showed how he would never give up until he accomplished his goals. Their really isn't a relationship here exempt that both Matt and Vincent make the most of what they got. Matt doesn't talk much in the novel it is more what he thought on the inside that we heard. Vincent talked a little bit and what he said kind of set up and ended the story. Both characters liked to keep to themselves and have 1 goal in mind. Matt and Vincent could not have done what they did if not for characters around them, Matt had Maria, Celia, and Tam Lin. Vincent had Jerome, that one girl, and to be honest you could easily count his brother cause he helped train him for the space agency. Matt and Vincent have a lot in common and a lot of differnces.

Mitchell's 5th Blog Post: Matt and Vincent

For this post I will be talking about the similarities and differences between Matt from The House of The Scorpion and Vincent from Gattaca. The things I will be talking about will be that Matt tries to hide his genes because he is ‘unnatural’ and Vincent tries to hide his genes for the opposite reason, he wants to hide him not being perfect. Another thing is that Vincent in the end has no choice but to be someone else because otherwise he would be going agains everything he wanted, and Matt tried to be someone else. Something that they both wanted to do was to go above all expectations for Vincent he was outrunning most of the people on the treadmill even though he has a heard decease and was ten thousand beats overdue. Vincent also would always go swimming with his brother who was modified and would always lose. In the end on the movie Vincent swims farther than his brother and ends up saving him. In The House of The Scorpions, Matt is much smarter than any clone and in the end Matt took over Opium also without anyone’s help he ran away to the outside world with just a map. 

In The House of The Scorpion Matt tries to be someone he is not and Vincent from Gattaca almost has no choice but to be someone else because all his life he wanted to be an astronaut but because of his heart decease he could never go into space, thats why he was trying to hide his identity and be a clone. In the end he becomes an astronaut and that was not his main concern anymore, but he has wanted that his whole life so he would contradict himself if he didn’t go into space. Matt on the other hand becomes El Patron and that is what he was hoping would happen to him the whole time so he essentially tried being someone else and succeeded. Overall both Matt and Vincent became what they wanted to be. Vincent became and astronaut and Matt become the ruler of Opium. They also both had to hide their identity and live their life pretending to be something they aren’t. Identity is who you are throughout this year we talked about how important identity is. To them I guess their goals were more important to them than being their own person. 

Farmers Opinion On The Current Status Quo #4

Coles fourth blog post free style

For my fourth blog post I have decided to write about how farmer may be telling readers that their are to many illigal immigrants flocking from Mexico to the United States Of America. Ill start off by telling you why people jump the border, most people will try to jump the border between Mexico and The States because their life in their home country is rubbish and they seek to start over and build a life for themselves in their neighbouring country (usually The States). Some may be running from home or from bills that weren't payed. But the top reason why Mexicans jump the border to The States is because they are getting underpaid and cant provide for their families so the jump the border and try and construct a new life in The States. Considering illegal immigrants don't just walk in to The States waving a flag proclaiming themselves illegal immigrants, it is impossible to count how many illegal immigrants their are in USA, Based on the national census in 2000, the USA Census Bureau put the estimate of illegal immigrants at 8.7 million. But in 2003, the USA citizenship and immigration services put the number at 7 million. United States immigration officials say that the number has grown by as much as 500,000 a year maybe more. Because of all the Illegal Immigrants their are I think that Farmer has tried to make a connection with the readers that this is wrong and something should be done. Throughout the novel Farmer has made multiple connections to the real world. We don't know what exactly she is trying to tell us, but she sure does open your eyes to certain things. I found this connection very interesting and eye opening.

Mitchell's 4th Blog Post

For my 4th blog post I will be giving this book almost a review. Lets start with the first few pages, they told the reader who each character was and had sections.  I found that his book was quite good, though it was pretty slow. This book was a little hard to understand at first for me but then I understood the book quite well. This book is a little harder to understand so I would recommend this book for an older audience. This book was in my opinion not the best because at first it was not very interesting. Later on in the book I was enjoying it more but if it wasn't for this project I probably would have gave up on this book. The aspect of putting both clones, drugs and a futuristic feel was interesting and I have never read anything like it.