How I feel about this novel: Youssef Kachouh

      Journal # 1

The book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy farmer is a terrific book which kept me excited throughout the whole experience of the book. Nancy Farmer did a lot of thinking to come up with a breath taking story.  I really like the book. The only thing is that the author doesn’t always put who’s speaking, so it’s sometimes hard to tell. Some of the spacing is also messed up. Other than that, this book is great! It is very detailed and I can clearly see what’s going on. Matt’s emotions are mostly expressed clearly. Matt discovers he is a clone in a future where clones are thought of as little more than animals. Matt learns a lot in the course of the novel; perhaps the most frightening of these is the reason for ones to clone themselves. This lesson showed me the purpose and consequence that may occur in the event, because clones can learn reason and start to develop emotions. In real life cloning one another is illegal for that reason because it would be called murder. This story is also really emotional, like the part where Tom plants the bomb in the wrong location and kills 20 children. After finishing this book I increased my knowledge Families, Friends and Enemies, Generations, Challenges and Triumphs, The Individual vs. Society, Nature/Science, and Adventure. Although The House of the Scorpion is somewhat long with a rather complicated plot, secondary-school students will enjoy reading Matt’s haunting story of survival. Even though I don’t like reading fiction books, the house of the scorpion was different, I felt that this story could relate in real life situations. Scientist have already figured how to clone people and any one in the world can clone a person if they had the right tools and ingredients.