Post 10 Conflicts Galore

On of the problems that Matt has to deal with is accepting that El Patron was just using him. El Patron eduacted Matt very well, but his, "...education and accomplishments were a sham. It didn't matter how intelligent he was. In the end the only thing that mattered was how strong his heart was", and now El Patron's heart was weak and he needed a heart. Even though he knew that El Patron was just using him he, "... wasn't-quite-sure", he thought that El Patron really loved him. Matt couldn't take it, "it was too cruel", he didn't know if he should go to the hospital and risk be killed by the old man that he thinks loes him or stay where he was safe.

Post 9 A Title By Choice

I think that "The House of the Scorpion" is a good title for the book, because it describes El Ptraon with some of the characteristics that scorpions have. El Patron was very territorial and intimidating. El Patron wasn't a big man but he was very intimidating, and, "his voice wasn't loud, but there was a quality to it that made Matt shiver even though he-for once-wasn't the one in trouble." He was also very territorial, "once El Patron decides something belongs to him, he never lets it go." For a hundred years he received tons of gold watches, jewels, statues, and moon rocks that people had given him, where he keeps in a secret storeroom under the ground and, "wants to be buried in it."

Post 8 The House of the Scorpion

The protagonist, Matt, has been raised all his life by a housemaid named Celia in a shack just outside the big house. She treats him with love and care all his life and he looks at her as his mother. One day, some kids that live in the big house find him, and Matt ends up leaving the safety of his little shack while Celia is working. Once, they find out that he is a clone they mistreat him and treat him the way they think he should be treated. They treat him like the filthy animal that they think he is and put him in a room filled with chicken litter where he eats, sleeps, and uses the restroom. Eventually El Patron finds out about how he's being treated, and sees the awful condition that he's in, and tells everyone to treat him with respect. Of course El Patron loves him and treats him with care, because Matt is a clone of himself.

When It's Over and the Dynamic Protagonist.

In the beginnig of the story Semirah, the protagonist, is a shy nerdy girl that has low self esteem. As the story progresses, and she goes trough the whole genetic engineering experience she becomes a stronger braver person, and eventually comes out of her shy shell. Knowing that the experience made her change lets the reader know that she is actually human, because if she wouldn't have changed at all you wouldn't be able to relate to her or have feelings for her. "I think about Shy Nerdy Girl and wonder if my mum and dad will miss her." This quote actually gives proof that she has changed and that she knows it.

I really like this book because, you keep thinking what's going to happen next and you come up with all sort of questions. I don't think this book boring at all, because it has a little bit of action and I think it's cool that this book has an evil, but genius mad scientist. I would definetely reccomend this book to friend, because if I liked it then they'll probably like it also.

The Round Protagonist

The protagonist, Semirah, learns about genetic engineering in a way she never thought she'd learn about it. She not only learns more about it, but she also experiences it by being forced to transform into a transgenic creature. As she watches her friend, Miranda, painfully turn into a bird she is frightened and scared about what will happen to them. No one, not even Dr.Franlkin knows how they will look, because it's all based on experimenting and just waiting to see the results. Emotionally, she becomes stronger as a person and comes out of her shell.

Insight

"His eyes were very bright. I noticed them when he came close to shake my hand. Later on, it was always his eyes that I remembered. Later on, just thinking about those bright, cold eyes would make me shake in terror." (page 65)
This quote gives you a heads up on Dr.Franklin, and after the reader reads this they should be thinking uh-oh this guy is a bad person. It gives the reader a hint that he's going to something terrible to Semirah to make her feel that way. I mean why else would she feel that way about him if he's a good a person? In a way this quote is kind of foreshadowing that Dr.Franklin will do something to Semirah and Miranda in the future.

The Science Behind

Dr.Franklin's Island is mostly about transgenics and genetic engineering, which means to insert a gene or genes into one species from another species. Dr.Franklin first experiments with animals by putting human DNA into animlas to see what happens and if his way of making transgenics works. Then, come along Miranda and Semirah and he wants to use them to try to make a transgenic human being. They try to escape from the clutches of Dr.Franklin and avoid turning into freaky transgenic creatures by talking to Dr.Skinner and the orderlies but, it doesn't work. They have no choice, but to do as they're told and become his first human experiments. Dr.Franlkin and Dr.Skinner have no idea how Miranda and Semirah are going to look and if they'll even be able to survive the transformation, but they see it as a sacrifice for science. Miranda and Semirah end up going through the whole transformation in pain and torture and have no idea if they're going to die.

Miranda

The character that I would want to be friends with would have to be Miranda because, she is emotionally strong, smart, always calm, knows what to do in a serious situation and always prepared. She is the kind of person that can get you through any problem and has a solution for everything. She is always thinking positive and will pick you up when you're down.