LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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deals with ethics, or issues of right and wrong.
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deals with environmental destruction.
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deals with alternate endings.
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deals with characters’ emotions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Themes. The House of the Scorpion is a story about the struggle to survive as a free individual and the search for a personal identity. The novel deals with issues and ethics around human cloning.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The conflict of the novel centers on the plot element that the protagonist is being “raised” for his organs to preserve the life of the drug lord from whom he is cloned. The protagonist experiences a great deal of internal conflict about his true feelings for his creator and “father” El Patron.
Detailed explanation-3: -I would say that one of the most overriding in my mind is the helplessness that loves ones feel when someone close to them is dying. There is an overall sensation of helplessness when the mother gets stung by the scorpion. The villagers come by and essentially are fairly worthless in alleviating the mother’s pain.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests.