House of the Scorpion Which Chapter Did Matt See Maria Again After a Long Time
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion Role 2, Middle Age: 7 to 11 Summary
Chapter 6
El Patrón
- Matt gets woken up by Rosa screaming at him. This lady is always yelling.
- She drags him to a bathtub and washes him off frantically, after which he's hauled out into a courtyard to meet the family.
- When he gets outside, Matt is basically shell-shocked.
- Celia is at that place along with the mysterious El Patrón and other members of the family.
- Celia's mad. She lets Rosa have it and tells El Patrón, and everyone else, that Rosa has been treating Matt like an animal.
- Rosa tries to defend herself, only fifty-fifty her physician young man turns on her.
- Furious, El Patrón has Rosa hauled off.
- He calls Matt over, who likes El Patrón instantly. We likewise learn here that Matt is El Patrón's clone.
- Perhaps thinking that some clone-bonding is in order, El Patrón tells Matt near his childhood in Aztlán, which was then chosen Mexico. He's pretty much rambling at this point.
- Finally El Patrón conks out – he'southward erstwhile and has talked as well much – at which point Celia takes Matt to their new apartment home in the Large House.
- Matt is happy, but he won't talk, even when María visits him afterwards and tries to persuade him to chat with her.
- Next nosotros learn that El Patrón is going away to rest in his mountain vacation dwelling house. He's 140 years former so he tires easily, and tin can you blame him? That's virtually as old as Dumbledore.
- Celia dresses Matt and they caput off to tell El Patrón bon voyage.
- At the good-good day, Matt meets to the unabridged family, and El Patrón reveals to anybody that Matt is his clone.
- According to El Patrón, this ways that Matt is super of import, and then anyone who harms him will be punished. El Patrón gives the Godfather a run for his coin here: everyone is so scared of El Patrón, they have no choice but to agree.
- And so El Patrón gives Matt the souvenir of a bodyguard, whom he lets Matt choice.
- Matt (understandably) decides on a huge homo with nice eyes named Tam Lin, who's Scottish. Practiced phone call.
- Tam Lin quickly picks Matt up and carts him off.
Affiliate 7
Teacher
- Poor Matt'south still having problems dealing with society. He won't talk and he's reluctant to leave Celia's apartment.
- Matt develops a growing dislike for Tom, who is a dandy. He's similar the Draco Malfoy to Matt's Harry Potter.
- But Matt slowly warms up to Tam Lin, who ends upward existence pretty cool.
- After living in the pen for months on end, Matt has adult asthma. Equally if he didn't have enough problem.
- María keeps visiting and trying to talk to Matt but he however refuses to reply.
- Tam Lin calls Matt out on his rude behavior, telling him that he doesn't take to plough into some other El Patrón.
- Matt thinks this over. Hmm.
- Somewhen, Matt gets a tutor called Teacher who is overly chirpy. Teacher treats Matt like a baby, which makes him so mad he practically explodes. He yells at her. He speaks!
- Tam Lin rushes in to comfort the instructor, who is freaked out by Matt.
- Finally, Matt introduces himself to Tam Lin for the first time (took you lot long plenty, Matt), and Tam Lin takes him out for a picnic.
Affiliate eight
The Eejit in the Dry out Field
- Matt's thrilled to exist going out with Tam Lin. He's fifty-fifty more pumped about riding a horse.
- But protective Tam Lin picks a slow horse, and Matt thinks this is lame. Picky picky.
- Apparently months of not talking left him with lots to say, because Matt chatters nonstop.
- While they're out, he and Tam Lin run into Subcontract workers, who are harvesting opium. They observe that the workers go along going without stopping for anything.
- Matt sees a Subcontract worker lying on the footing and Tam Lin gets upset and says they accept to exit him in that location. It turns out the man is dead.
- They finally finish their ride and Tam Lin tells the equus caballus to drinkable. Apparently these horses are different than the one's we're used to.
- The equus caballus is called a Safe Horse, and it's programmed to exercise exactly what a rider tells it to do. And so information technology won't even drink unless it'south told to do so.
- The ii guys and so go along a hike and come to a pretty oasis, but Tam Lin tells Matt it's a secret and he tin't tell anyone most it.
- Then he explains that Matt was cloned from El Patrón, which is why people don't like him: he's different.
- Matt also learns nigh eejits: people who are programmed to obey orders, just like the Safe Horse.
- As it turns out, the Farm worker who died did and then because he was never told to cease working, so he worked himself to death. Scary stuff.
- Horrified, Matt asks Tam Lin to cease telling him things – it's freaking him out!
- And then Tam Lin takes Matt exploring instead, and teaches him almost plants, animals, and survival skills. He'd make a smashing Boy Sentinel troop leader, don't you call up?
- Matt asks Tam Lin to be his instructor, and he gladly accepts.
Affiliate 9
The Underground Passage
- Matt's settling into a dainty routine with Celia and Tam Lin, but he's constantly bothered by the fact that he's a copy of another person. Information technology'due south okay, Matt, we would exist, too.
- He'south also haunted past the dead eejit he saw.
- María still visits, merely now brings her abrasive dog, Furball with her, which merely serves as a reminder to Matt that people recollect of him every bit an beast. Ugh.
- When he hears Tom and Steven's mother, Felicia, playing the piano, Matt becomes interested in the musical instrument, and music in general. Felicia, we larn, is an alcoholic and seems very depressed.
- Ane day, Matt has to hide in a cupboard to listen to Felicia play. The closet is actually a hole-and-corner passage, and Matt starts to explore it. It goes all over the Big Firm and has peepholes into diverse rooms.
- Matt wanders towards the room of Mr. Alacrán's male parent, who has cancer and is refusing treatment.
- On some other exploration of the Large Business firm, Matt observes the doctor, Willum, hanging around Felicia. The two seem pretty cozy.
- Afterwards a while, Matt starts to play the piano himself in secret, just Tam Lin discovers him and decides to get him a proper piano instructor.
- They find a music teacher who has gone deafened and actually needs a job. His proper name is Mr. Ortega and he agrees to teach Matt, even if Matt is a clone.
- Figuring that if he excels at school people will forget he's a clone, Matt throws himself into his studies.
Affiliate x
The Cat with Nine Lives
- We jump forward iii years in time. It'south El Patrón's 143rd birthday. He's even got Bilbo Baggins from The Fellowship of the Rings beat.
- Matt, who really cares about El Patrón, is sad to see him so anile.
- Celia seems nervous about El Patrón'due south party and tells Matt to find her if anything seems weird.
- María is there for the party, but she's upset because she can't observe Furball, and so Tam Lin and Matt reluctantly help her wait for the dog.
- Tom is there, besides, and joins the search political party, but Matt notices that Tom is just half-heartedly looking. He suspects that Tom did something to Furball. Uh oh.
- Eventually, later hearing the dog's cries, Matt finds Furball in the toilet, nearly drowned. He'south horrified – Tom nearly killed the dog.
- Matt kind of likes El Patrón'due south birthday, because it means that his friends are celebrating information technology equally his altogether, too. It'southward the ane twenty-four hour period of the year that the Alacráns have to pay attention and be polite to him.
- A creepy ruby-red-headed guy from California is also at the party. His name is Mr. MacGregor.
- El Patrón arrives and appears to be in much better wellness. He thanks his new doctors for their awesome treatment with million dollar checks. Ka-ching!
- He so proceeds to tell the story he tells all the time, about how his family unit was very poor and how all of his viii siblings died before reaching adulthood.
Affiliate 11
The Giving and Taking of Gifts
- Matt wanders around and checks out the seating arrangement at El Patrón'southward party. As a joke, he takes Tom'south place bill of fare and sticks it at the baby table.
- María catches him, so Matt tells her that he thinks Tom tried to drown Furball. She doesn't believe him, though. Instead, she call up'southward Matt's being quite the jerk.
- El Patrón and Mr. Alacrán join the conversation, and El Patrón approves of Matt's joke.
- When María protests, El Patrón tells her to stuff it.
- Still angry, she refuses to talk to Matt anymore. Tam Lin, also, isn't thrilled with how Matt is acting.
- Then Matt overhears a conversation among the adults. El Patrón is talking about things like "fetal brain implants" and makes fun of his grandson, El Viejo, for non hopping onboard the modern medical technology bandwagon. It turns out El Viejo is the man with cancer, whom Matt stumbled upon while roaming the secret passageway in Chapter 9. Is this all coming together now?
- Mr. Alacrán (who we now know is El Patrón'southward great-grandson) sticks upwardly for his father, El Viejo, and says that "implants" are "immoral."
- Despite their disagreement, El Patrón decides not to lay the smack down on Mr. Alacrán. Information technology is his birthday, later on all, so he'southward non really in the correct mood.
- Felicia tries to take Tom some food at the baby table, but Mr. Alacrán yells at her to shut up and sit down. People are seriously mean effectually here.
- El Patrón and so opens his presents. He has tons of them, of course.
- Our other birthday boy, Matt, is then allowed to open his three presents, from Celia, Tam Lin, and El Patrón.
- María, nevertheless peeved, tries to have back her present, but her dad tells her to hand it over and stop complaining.
- Channeling El Patrón, Matt orders María to bring him his souvenir. Eek.
- Then he steps over the line and demands a birthday kiss. Everyone is horrified because he's a clone, but El Patrón is delighted.
- Even though he begins to regret his actions, Matt refuses to back downwards. María finally kisses him, which makes Matt is horrified at his ain behavior.
- Later, dorsum in his room, Matt opens María'due south gift, which is a box of taffy that she made herself. Pretty sweet.
- We larn that María is a hoarder, and that her mother abandoned her when she was only five. Celia says this is why María won't let things go and why she won't let Furball leave her sight.
- Feeling pretty guilty, Matt goes to sleep.
Affiliate 12
The Thing on the Bed
- Felicia shows upwardly the side by side morning time out of nowhere, surprising Matt, who was studying.
- She seems ill, just she tries to be squeamish to Matt. She tells him that María wants to run into him and that she'due south at the hospital.
- When Matt goes to come across her, she's in that location, but she thought it was Matt'south thought to run across there.
- Uh-oh. It's a set-upward.
- Tom walks in and takes them to see something awful. At first it sounds similar a cat being tortured, merely when Tom opens the door, the three of them run across a clone who is stake and tied down and screeching.
- Nosotros learn that the clone is Mr. MacGregor's.
- Though horrified, Matt tin can't assist just notice that the clone looks a lot like Tom, who gets mad when Matt points this out.
- Freaking out, María refuses to wait at the clone or heed to anything virtually it.
- Matt gets aroused with her considering she was gung-ho nigh rescuing the creature when she idea it was a true cat, and now she wants nothing to do with information technology.
Chapter thirteen
The Lotus Swimming
- Matt'south terrified. He wants to talk with someone about what he saw, and then he goes to Celia and tells her what happened.
- She'southward furious with Tom for showing them that, and she tells Matt that Tom is Mr. MacGregor's son. Scandal!
- It turns out Felicia ran off with Mr. MacGregor, but when the relationship ended, El Patrón had her brought back and now she's basically a prisoner at the house.
- Then Celia explains that all clones have their brains destroyed at birth. It'due south a law. Only El Patrón is so powerful that he overlooked the law and left Matt's brain intact.
- Okay, big revelation: Matt is the just clone in existence with a brain that hasn't been destroyed.
- With a promise that he'll be safe as long as he lives, Celia assures Matt that no ane will inject him with any brain-destroying drugs.
- It's time for a nap. Every bit he drifts off to sleep, Matt wonders why MacGregor would want a brain-damaged clone.
- Lo and behold, MacGregor shows up a few days later and has a new liver and new kidneys. Aha.
- María is going to boarding schoolhouse soon, just she refuses to talk to Matt.
- In an try to force her to speak to him, Matt decides to kidnap Furball and send María a ransom note.
- Meanwhile, Matt finds Tom hanging around, torturing a frog. The two bicker and Tom goes dorsum inside.
- Then, Matt sneaks over to where the Mendozas are staying and prepares to snatch Furball. He tries one last time to talk to María only she runs off.
- So Matt gives Furball some meat to get the dog to come up with him. He has some drugs to make Furball autumn asleep but he doesn't end up using them.
- After leaving the ransom note, Matt takes Furball and leaves him near the swimming for safekeeping. His plan is to go back later to meet María there after she reads the ransom note.
- When he does caput dorsum, Matt is by met Tam Lin and another bodyguard named Daft Donald. A man named Senator Mendoza is with them; furious, he tells Matt that Furball is dead. (P.S. This guy is actually a U.s. Senator.)
- Yelling, Matt declares that he loves María and wouldn't hurt her, which makes the Senator even angrier.
- Tam Lin is seriously disappointed in Matt, and doesn't believe Matt when he says that he didn't kill Furball.
- Nosotros find out that Tam Lin is also leaving with El Patrón.
Chapter 14
Celia's Story
- Matt is bars to his room. He'southward pretty miserable because he has a lot of regrets almost what he'due south washed, and he's likewise frustrated that no one believes that he didn't impale Furball. Plus, he's pretty sure Tom killed the canis familiaris, but he can't prove it.
- Plus, without Tam Lin, who has left with El Patrón, Matt's very solitary. Now that Tam Lin is gone, he realizes what a friend he was.
- He decides to make Tam Lin proud by making meliorate decisions.
- There is some good news, though. El Patrón found out virtually Tom's stunt at the hospital and banishes him to boarding school for a yr. And so at to the lowest degree that corking won't exist effectually.
- From Celia, Matt learns that El Patrón won't ever let things go. He even keeps a stash of all his presents in an underground tomb, where he wants to be buried like a pharaoh.
- This is why El Patrón keeps Tom effectually, as well, even though he hates him. Tom "belongs" to him.
- At present it's fourth dimension to learn about Celia's background.
- She grew upwardly in Aztlán in the same village as El Patrón (though she's not nigh as former, of form).
- She was poor and went to work in a manufactory, where she dreamed of going to the United states of america someday.
- Eventually, Celia found someone to have her over the border and made a run for it with a grouping of other people fleeing Aztlán.
- Unfortunately, the Subcontract Patrol caught her and the others. El Patrón came to see the prisoners and recognized Celia's accent.
- When he learned she was from his hometown, he decided to spare her life and hired her equally a cook. Then at present Celia belongs to El Patrón, and she can never escape him.
- Equally a punishment for their criminal offence, the people who crossed the border with Celia were turned into eejits and at present piece of work the fields.
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