El Patron Character Analysis

Matt…He is far by one of the most changed characters throughout the story. Matt has shown us many characterises of himself, such as the scene from the birthday party and how he did Maria. As a clone, many would expect this behaviour from Matt had they been around other of El Patron clones and learned how he was going to act. I believe the reason Matt acts the way he does is that he doesn’t understand anything. All he knows is what he is told, he doesn’t get to experience things like everyone else does, along with that is that of El Patron’s genetic make-up, Matt is expected to act exactly like El Patron did as a child or at Matt’s current age. Since previously reading the book, Matt goes through a huge turn of emotions throughout the novel.
Things like the fact he was just being used for organs, or that El Patron didn’t really love him, and more basic things like that. However, as Matt got older he started to understand better but, not without someone else’s help. A huge change in Matt over all is when he started trying to be like everyone else and started learning how to help the next ruler of the farm on page 170 it states “No Matt realised, the old man meant him to have a higher destiny. He could never reach the status of Benito or Steven, not being human, but he could help them, and so Matt Had begun to study how the enterprise of running an opium empire worked” Here he doesn’t realize that he is going to be used for Organs rather than helping Benito or Steven rule the empire. He doesn’t realize anything of that sort until Maria brings up the fact the she knows where El Patron’s sources are hence on page: “I-I Maria seemed confused, ‘I’m not supposed to talk about it but yes, I do know where he got it and it is evil!’ she hugged Matt more tightly” That is when Matt had finally started piecing things together, So my statement that he can’t really piece things together unless he was given a clue by another person seems to be