Questions:

1. Where did Matt hide during the days that he spent scared at Celia house?

2. Where was Rosa keeping Matt during his injured stay at the house?

3. How was the section where Matt stayed, different then where El Patron stayed?

4. Describe the oasis.

5. Describe how the setting affects the characters' moods.

6. What was Opium in our time?

7. What was so amazing about Aztlan?

8. Why isn't this statement true?

9. Name the three distinct settings that appear throughout the novel. Describe them.

10. How does it change in the third part of the novel?

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Setting :

The setting in this book remains relativity the same. Matt lives with Celia in an old house in the middle of a futuristic white poppy field in the country Opium (Located between what was once known as Mexico and the United States). At one point Matt is brought to a gloomy large house where his 'father' / older self is residing. The settings represent the gloominess of being indoors with it being stuffy, old and an imaginative dim lighting and color scheme. The outdoors on the other hand represents youth and childhood for it is sunny, bright (white poppies) and full of joy. The oasis is a safe neutral place to our protagonist and it is where he goes to get away from his life.

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The House of the Scorpion

Group members: Maleeha, Allison, Warren, Vanessa