Post 1, Youth 0-6, Matt

Before I began reading the book, I assumed that the book would be based around the person who was cloned which I now know as El Patron. Once I started reading the book I realized that was not the case. The book is actually based around the clone of El Patron named Matteo Alacran or Matt for short, which is what he is referred as most often in the book. I definitely found it very interesting that the book was based around Matt and I think the concept was very creative. I find Matt a very interesting and unique character. For one, the fact he is a clone makes you ask yourself a lot of questions, such as why he was created, how does it affect his life, and how does it affect the way he functions and thinks. One of the things I found very interesting was that Matt seemed very intelligent. This point was brought up in the first chapter when Matt was being created, that he was supposed to be made stupid by law, but they chose not to. I wondered why exactly, if the clones were smart, did they have to be made stupid? Also, why are clones intelligent in the first place? I found this very strange considering in the book he was only about 6 years old and he seemed to have the brain of about a 10 year old. Another big aspect about Matt in the first section of the book was how people reacted to him being a clone. I wondered why they saw him as dirty animal and evil? Obviously it was for this reason that he was hidden away in the small house in the poppy fields and told not to leave. People's reaction to Matt seemed to change they way readers viewed his character and made themselves ask questions.

~Chelsea