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House Of Scorpions Analysis
The House of Scorpions had many issue deal with Freedom and slavery, Love and hate, and Power and lack of power. El Patron is controlling clones which make clones not to live their life the way they want to; their life seems lifeless. The story is about a clone named Matt who never went out of his shed before. Emilia, Steven, and Maria find him and later gets bored of him. Matt doesn't want them to leave because he is lonely. He smashes open the window and jumps out. He didn't know the dangers of landing on the glass since he never experienced pain before. Immediately after Matt jumps out, the kids carry him to the mansion and find out he is a clone. clone struggles to earn his respect since the world is against

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