The Search For Self Identity By Nancy Farmer

The Search For Self Identity

From birth we all have our own journeys to establish ourselves and our self identities, this story is no different. It's just a boy trying to find out where and how he belongs in the world he was born into. Matt is to believe he is nothing like a human and could never accomplish anything in which a human being could, or strive to become better, to become something more. But we discover that this isn't true. Matt is much more and strives to become more. This topic can be easily translated into real life because everyone has their own journey to discover their self identity and if they can become something more and this book shows how one can accomplish that. Nancy Farmer creates the pursuit of self-identity in the

This changes extremely fast throughout the story in which he discovers by the Alacran family that he is just a clone, a wild beast, that could never achieve anything better or become better. After the discovery of Matt being a clone the family is quick to get rid of Matt.``Rosa hurried down the steps and dumped Matt roughly onto the lawn.Without a word, she turned and fled back to the house.” (Farmer 24). Farmer uses imagery and the use of inferring within the story in order to establish a mysterious and ominous mood. A feature on Matt’s physical appearance helps create the tension and ill will intentions within other characters in the story. Once they discovered Matt was a clone, he is thrown outside on the lawn after stepping on broken glass to essentially sit there and rot. Another great example of how the Alacran family treats/talks about Matt. “Matt’s a clone.”, “You mustn’t go near it.”, “What's a clone?”, “A bad animal.” (Farmer 27). Farmer uses diction within the story in order to establish the ill will intentions of characters in the story. Since Matt's a clone, and all clones up until him were mindless animals but this was because they were injected with a brain destroying drug given to them at birth, Matt was born without this mind altering drug. This causes the character to treat them like they treated the rest of these clones. According to Willum,“Clones go that way in the end. I did think this one was brighter than most.”(Farmer 43). Farmer uses irony within the story in order to create tension and foreshadowing to establish the ill will intention of the characters. Matt isn't just some regular clone with its mind all messed up, no, he has his brain and can control his thoughts like a regular human can. Matt is more human than clone and is proven more and more throughout the