Journal #2
The book The House of the Scorpion has different moods throughout. At the beginning of the book the mood is very lonesome. Its lonesome because Matt is all alone with out any friends. He only knows Celia who is only home for a little bit in the evening. The mood changes in middle of the book from lonesome to adventurous. The mood becomes adventurous because Matt and Maria become friends and Matt and Tam Lin his body guard become good friends and they do stuff together. Maria is always telling Matt about her adventures and he is really interested. Tam Lin takes Matt to the oasis and they hike and have picnics and Tam Lin teaches Matt things about nature. In the middle of the book Matt's life really changes because he is used to doing nothing except for watching television and playing by himself. Now he meets all of these new people and he is always doing something such as talking to El Patron or learning to play music. I think this is a positive change in his life. Near the end of the story the mood becomes depressing and kind of hopeless. Matt realizes that his purpose for being born was so that he could be used for spare parts when El Patron needed them. When El Patron dies Matt is still sad even though El Patron was going to kill him for parts. Tam Lin takes Matt to the oasis and tells him to run away to Aztlan. Matt doesn’t want to leave Tam Lin or Celia he is sad to go but does it any way. When he reaches Aztlan the border police pick him up and bring him to and orphanage where the boys work all day. They send him to San Luis where he is hopeful he will find Maria. Instead he is greeted by a nasty keeper. The mood becomes hopeful when he and a few of the other orphans make a plan to escape. They make it out and find Maria and her mother who rescue them. The mood at the end of the book is inspirational and prosperous as Matt goes back to Opium and find Celia and makes plans to reform Opium to a good country.
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