Story Setting #2

Cole 2nd Post on Story Setting (Chapter 1-16)

Farmer decided to start the story off in a science lab, she first wrote about "a droplet of life" which then turned out to be Matt later in the story. Why did she do this when it explains everything that happened in the first chapter later on? Why not name the first chapter a prolouge? After the science lab Farmer set up the setting for Matt in a small house resting on El Patrons opium fields. The tiny house had locked doors, nailed down windows, a padlocked microwave and no outside life. Those were the down sides, The good side was that he could watch and learn from the TV as much as he wanted. We can conclude that this life must have been very boring as he could only see people in the fields and on TV and was never able to talk to them. The only person he could confide in was Celia. When Steven and Emilia came to see him in his little house he was surprised, scared, and lost for words. This was a new environment for him and he hadn't a time to adjust to it. Thats why when Steven and Emilia left and came back with the little girl Maria Matt became dumbfounded and frustrated that she took his carefully planned speech asking if they wanted to play. And once Matt stepped on glass and had to be taken to the big house were El Patron and his future prison lay Matts world turned inside out. The Setting of the story Nancy Farmer has created in this novel are both suiting and are descriptive enough to form a image of what is taking place in the novel. I found the different settings throughout the first 16 chapters both interesting and unique. I am looking forward to further reading what Farmer has to offer and to see maybe the different setting changes throughout the book. Will farmer keep the big house setting forever? or will it change dramatically?