House Of The Scorpion Character Analysis

The House of the Scorpion In The House of the Scorpion, Matteo goes through a significant amount of character growth throughout the book. Matteo starts off as an extremely young innocent 7 year old boy. In his 7 years of living, he knows nothing about the outside world and has never met anybody other than his “mother.” His temporary mother keeps him in her home, and has kept him there for quite some time. Whenever he asks her about the outside world, she gets very defensive and starts telling Matt about chupacabras or “thirsty-blood-sucking monsters” that live outside. Matt was still curious about the outside world regardless of what his “mother” would tell him, that being said, he continued being adventurous. Matt goes from a timid, extremely shy child to a good man and a great leader in the end. In the beginning of the novel, Matt was abused and locked up for literally months and months (when he was just a child.) He doesn’t have any friends, due to the fact that he is a clone and cannot be seen by anybody. By the time he turned fourteen, he dealt with almost everything you can think of; multiple near-death-experiences, hatred, and prejudice and also an extreme amount of violence. A

Well, aside from being a clone, Matt is an ordinary guy. Matt struggles with a lot of things like bullies, prejudice, making friends, love, growing older, and making important decisions for himself, just like you and I. Maybe what makes Matt so related is that he always tries to do the right thing no matter what. For example; his friendship with his new friend Fidelito. When Matt finds out that the orphan boys are given food in only proportion to how much work they got done that day, Matt sees this as extremely unfair and steps in. He helps them get more work done because “it seemed monstrously unfair that the little boy was deprived of food simply because he was slower than the larger