Maddie's Book Report: The House of The Scorpion
This book was very well written. I enjoyed every minute of it. I would highly recommend it for one of next year's biology student(s). It was about a boy who did not know he was cloned at the beginning of the book that all he wanted to do was be normal and allowed to go outside. He escaped and he was caught and sent to the "master's" house, and he was treated like filth. Everyone basically spat on him and told him he wasn't worth anything. I think the author gave her insight on her opinion if someone were to be cloned that they wouldn't have the same treatment as everyone else. Then realizing that it was the master of the master's clone he was treated like royalty, and the boy got too high and mighty. As he was at the highest of his peak one of the master's boys came and showed him another clone (the one that had went crazy), and it made the boy very upset. Then I think the author was trying to show that cloning can go wrong. They plan to use the boy for organs for El' Patron (the master), and as the boy tries to escape once he figures it out he is caught and it basically leaves you hanging. In parts they had people with what they called "eejits". They basically put implants in their brain to make them do as told. I think the author, Nancy Farmer, was trying to portray the fact that if we have something like cloning in control then many people will get greedy over their power and use them for organs then figure out how to do something as horrible as something like the eejits. She says basically do not clone! This book was so good and it had a few good ethically implied points.