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Slavery In The House Of The Scorpion Quotes

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In an eerily familiar world set in the future, technological advances threaten the moral fabric of the world. This is the life that clone Matteo Alacrán is subjected to in Nancy Farmer’s science-fiction novel The House of the Scorpion. While this novel addresses many socio-political issues, including genetic engineering, drug trafficking, and immigration, I would argue that the most prominent socio-political issue that this novel addresses is slavery, as it is tied to almost every aspect of this story. Slavery can be seen played out through the eejits in Opium and the use of clones, specifically through Matteo. Perhaps the most obvious example of slavery is exhibited in the eejits, workers in Opium territory. After witnessing a dead

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