Why is everyone else in the book El Patron's puppets?
WHY? Why doesn't Matt have a lot of say in any decisions, or that he gets stuck with people that don't care about him? These are some of the main questions that continuously to come to mind, as well as would we treat clones like this in real life? The way Matt is treated is despicable, he recieves no rights or freedom. In fact, why does El Patron have so much power? He DOESN'T deserve it! However, besides the disrespectfulness towards Matt, and manipulative El Patron, I am really enjoying the book. I love how Farmer constantly throws eye popping scenes into the book, and when she brings them in it changes your whole perspective on the book.
The Charter of Rights was the first subject that I thought of that connects with the House of the Scorpion book. This is because Matt was being neglected and deprived from him having his own freedom. Matt's equality, legal, fundamental, mobility, and democratic rights are all being torn down. Equality rights are not represented because he is taken as only a "clone" not an actual human. He is neither taken as a individual but as an animal. Closer to the beginning of the book Matt was locked away without any say. Rosa treated him like a pig therefore this is not showing his legal rights! He doesn't have fundamental rights, the freedom of speech, neither to believe in religion, or mobility rights. He is not aloud to go anywhere at all. When he went to El Viejo's funeral he was insulted by the priest as an "animal". Lastly, democratic rights, El Patron is the only person who has a say in decisions, everyone else is like his puppets. When you look at El Patron and how he treats everyone, it's disgusting. When El Patron doesn't get his way, which is incredibly rare, he takes his anger out on people, whether it's turning them into eejits or acting like he is their friend.
WHY? Why doesn't Matt have a lot of say in any decisions, or that he gets stuck with people that don't care about him? These are some of the main questions that continuously to come to mind, as well as would we treat clones like this in real life? The way Matt is treated is despicable, he recieves no rights or freedom. In fact, why does El Patron have so much power? He DOESN'T deserve it! However, besides the disrespectfulness towards Matt, and manipulative El Patron, I am really enjoying the book. I love how Farmer constantly throws eye popping scenes into the book, and when she brings them in it changes your whole perspective on the book.
The Charter of Rights was the first subject that I thought of that connects with the House of the Scorpion book. This is because Matt was being neglected and deprived from him having his own freedom. Matt's equality, legal, fundamental, mobility, and democratic rights are all being torn down. Equality rights are not represented because he is taken as only a "clone" not an actual human. He is neither taken as a individual but as an animal. Closer to the beginning of the book Matt was locked away without any say. Rosa treated him like a pig therefore this is not showing his legal rights! He doesn't have fundamental rights, the freedom of speech, neither to believe in religion, or mobility rights. He is not aloud to go anywhere at all. When he went to El Viejo's funeral he was insulted by the priest as an "animal". Lastly, democratic rights, El Patron is the only person who has a say in decisions, everyone else is like his puppets. When you look at El Patron and how he treats everyone, it's disgusting. When El Patron doesn't get his way, which is incredibly rare, he takes his anger out on people, whether it's turning them into eejits or acting like he is their friend.
I could not agree more with what you are saying, Matt is a human being no matter what. Maybe they treat clones differently in Canada but because this is really El Patrons country, they have different rules and thoughts. El Patron himself though does not see Matt as a animal at all, so I don't understand that if El Patron had so much power, why doesn't he enforce this respect for clones?
ReplyDeleteProbably because Matt is the only clone that hasn't had their brain destroyed. As we read in the book, Tom's dad's clone was a mess. I can see how it'd be hard for people to grasp that Matt is better then that.