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Character Analysis Of Matt In The House Of The Scorpion

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Have you ever felt like your team was losing and you felt like giving up, but your family and friends helped you feel better? Imagine being a clone and having hardships everywhere you go and being afraid of having your heart taken away.This is a huge obstacle that Matt in The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer faces.A fitting theme for this book would probably be : With the help of others,you can overcome many hardships.This certainly speaks for Matt, who is helped by friends and family all throughout the story. For example when Celia gives him poison for his heart so it wouldn't be safe to use.Another example is when Tam Lin fakes Matt’s death.The last example is after Matt gets out of the Bone Yard, Ton Ton comes to his rescue.More details …show more content…

Ton Ton starts to carefully and slowly dig him out, very similar to a surgeon doing an operation.Finally he grabs Chacho with the shrimp harvester and puts him on the ground.He is alive, but Ton Ton tells Matt that Chacho is in shock.”People can take only so much fear, and then they go into a kind of sleep.”Then Ton Ton starts feeding him some fluids and Chacho wakes up, Gulping large amounts of soda.Then they all start on their way to San Luis.So they all manage to pull together and get

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