Setting: Why did Farmer chose these settings? How are they moving the book forward?
House of the scorpion takes place in a fictional country called Opium, which is claimed to be in the middle of Mexico and the United States. A question that came to mind about the setting was: Why did Farmer decide to make a fictional place for her book? Is it because there are some things that are going to happen that don't normally or can't happen in real life? For example, in real life we don't have clones or eejits, therefore I believe the story is going to get even more interesting!
Now observing El Patron's character I believe that he has many secrets that he doesn't want people to know, or he may seem like one person at first glance then the more you get to know him you would realize he really does have many "twisted branches". I think that is why Farmer made El Patron's character in a big house, because he stores many of his secrets in there. Secrets like a hidden passages that Matt was able to find. Why would there be a secret passage in the Big House? The further you go into the book you find out more settings that Farmer is bringing in, and I think she brought many different settings into the story so that you can make connections and find out more about the characters, such as Tam Lin. He has a pond that he enjoys to go to, and seems to care about due to the fact that he didn't want to tell anyone so that it doesn't get drained out. it has also become a place for him to be alone. In conclusion, Tam Lin may be holding some secrets himself. That is one place that he feels like he isn't being watched, that's where he was telling Matt about the eejits, since he knew no one was listening. Thus these settings can help develop the book by us knowing much more about the characters.
Since the first couple chapters of the book I was excited to read the rest because so much already happened, and due to those events it brought new ideas or questions. For example: "Why is Matt so important that the doctor could lose his job? Do they need Matt for something?" or "If somehow we were able to make clones, would we treat them the same way that they are treating Matt in the book?". Now that I am halfway through the book and I am able to make assumptions to answer my previous questions, as well as bringing up newer questions for me to ask. I hope I can answer all my questions by the end of the book!
House of the scorpion takes place in a fictional country called Opium, which is claimed to be in the middle of Mexico and the United States. A question that came to mind about the setting was: Why did Farmer decide to make a fictional place for her book? Is it because there are some things that are going to happen that don't normally or can't happen in real life? For example, in real life we don't have clones or eejits, therefore I believe the story is going to get even more interesting!
Now observing El Patron's character I believe that he has many secrets that he doesn't want people to know, or he may seem like one person at first glance then the more you get to know him you would realize he really does have many "twisted branches". I think that is why Farmer made El Patron's character in a big house, because he stores many of his secrets in there. Secrets like a hidden passages that Matt was able to find. Why would there be a secret passage in the Big House? The further you go into the book you find out more settings that Farmer is bringing in, and I think she brought many different settings into the story so that you can make connections and find out more about the characters, such as Tam Lin. He has a pond that he enjoys to go to, and seems to care about due to the fact that he didn't want to tell anyone so that it doesn't get drained out. it has also become a place for him to be alone. In conclusion, Tam Lin may be holding some secrets himself. That is one place that he feels like he isn't being watched, that's where he was telling Matt about the eejits, since he knew no one was listening. Thus these settings can help develop the book by us knowing much more about the characters.
Since the first couple chapters of the book I was excited to read the rest because so much already happened, and due to those events it brought new ideas or questions. For example: "Why is Matt so important that the doctor could lose his job? Do they need Matt for something?" or "If somehow we were able to make clones, would we treat them the same way that they are treating Matt in the book?". Now that I am halfway through the book and I am able to make assumptions to answer my previous questions, as well as bringing up newer questions for me to ask. I hope I can answer all my questions by the end of the book!
I like the comment you make about how El Patron' character must have a big house to hide all of his many secrets!
ReplyDeleteAlso - with making connections between characters and places, who else has a tie to the pond besides Tam Lin and Matt? Wait until you find out.
Thank you!
I really enjoyed reading this blog post, because you showed the book in a new light. You seemed to ask yourself a lot of questions and then tried to come up with answer for those question which I found very interesting. We always ourself questions when reading, but it is always in our subconscious mind and you managed to bring that factor forward through your writing. I also really like how you related the setting to the characters personality which something that most people wouldn't think to do so it was extremely creative. For example you related El Patron to the Alacran house because it was filled with secrets such as the secret passage that Matt found. And we all know that El Patron has many secrets and is very mysterious. I found this blog post very insightful and detailed and I liked your creative ideas and thoughts. :)
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