Opium, a strand of land in between the borders of the US and Mexico, is a place where strange and evil events occur on a daily basis. There are main motives in the society of Opium such as: violence, money, and drugs. In the novel, written by Nancy Farmer's, The House of The Scorpion, El Patron’s job contained drugs and cloning. In fact, he fits multiple uncommon characteristics that bring out a very different side that aren't shown from people. El Patron is known as the drug Lord who feeds off of fame, money, and power and will risk everything and anything in order to not die and have control over all. He very well finds interest in cloning other boys to take their organs in order to stay alive so he doesn’t die because he …show more content…
The main purpose of this book is to show readers that eagerness is the start to any evil doing in life. Dishonorable and wicked actions to please someone else’s expectations is caused by selfishness. An individual will sacrifice anything and put themselves first and do the most hurtful things just to be content with their own lives. "When they died, he plowed their bodies into the dirt for fertilizer. The roots of opium are watered in blood"(Farmer 197). El Patron has begun his very own territory from the sweat of his hard-working slaves and the clones that he sacrificed and made for his own needs. The hard-working slaves are little examinations that are meant to keep El Patron alive and the benefit he gets is making money off his field of drugs. If it weren’t for the drugs, El Patron wouldn’t be as strong minded as he is. "’You've had many lives,' Celia said. 'Thousands of them are buried under the poppy fields"(Farmer 234). El Patron is self-centered and thinks the world revolves around him and everything is his, especially other people's lives. Selfishness and overconfidence causes him to crave for