In The House of the Scorpion, Matt, the main character, has very few friends. Most people in the book hate Matt just because he is a clone, but as we learn towards the end of the book there is no difference between a clone and a human. Matt is very close with the friends he does have, those friends are Tam Lin, Celia, and María. Those friends have helped Matt with many different things and loved him through all of them. Of all the characters in The House of the Scorpion, María is the best friend to Matt because she makes him truly happy, which is something nobody else in the book does. To begin, Matt and María have been through a lot together, and they still love each other after all of it. In the chapter “The thing on the bed” Tom lures Matt and María to go see a clone, the clone is scary and hurt and it scares María that Matt would turn into that, so she goes with Tom and leaves Matt behind. Later in the book on page 206 when María returns to the big house for Steven and Emelia’s wedding, María meets Matt in the tunnels. ““At last!” She cried, flinging her arms around him. “Have you missed me?” “All the time,” he said, hugging her back.” Those two pieces of evidence show that Matt and María’s relationship is very strong and they miss each other when …show more content…
One example of this is on page 207 when they meet each other in the secret tunnels at the big house. “She put her arms around him, and he smelled her perfume, a warm exciting scent of carnations. Matt never wanted to move again.” This example shows that María makes Matt happy. Another example is on page 206. “María snuggled against Matt, and he felt amazingly good. He realized he was happy and that he hadn’t been in a long time.” This shows that María is the only person that makes Matt truly happy because he was with Tam Lin and Celia but he only realized he was happy when he was with María. María makes Matt truly happy which is only something that she