Post 4, Age 14

A lot of things have happened over the part of the book, age 14. I am going to give a sort of summary of what has happened and then I will discuss all the twists and turns.

Matt was about to escape with Maria, but Emilia and Steven stopped them in their path. Bodyguards then took Matt to the hospital, and this is where age 14 starts, with Matt in a hospital bed. El Patron is very sick, he was on the verge of dying, but he has pulled through. Matt was brought to a room to talk with El Patron, and surprisingly, Celia was there and she was more than willing to giver her opinion. She told how she had been poisoning Matt so that El Patron couldn't use his body. By getting in a fight with Celia, El Patron suffered a heart attack, and he did not make it. Tam Lin was being harshly cruel to Matt, he wrapped him in duct-tape and the plan was to dump Matt's body in the "bad air" by the eejit pens. But they took a different route, and Matt and Tam Lin were by the oasis. They went into the oasis and Tam Lin told Matt that he had to leave, he had to run to Aztlán, and find Maria. Once he finds Maria, he is to speak with her mother, Esperanza. He thought that she would be able to help Matt and take him down Opium. Tam Lin leaves Matt by himself where he is to journey to a country he has only heard of, on a mission to take down all of Opium. As frightened as he was, he conquered a cliff, ridges and a tough journey to make it to Aztlán. But there was still one obstacle in front of him before he reaches this place, the farm patrol. On a mad sprint, he makes it across the border and lands in a pile of mud. He finally makes it! (pages 230-257)

This short section of the book, has been filled with exciting and intense events. One of the first and important parts is when Celia reveals that she had been poisoning Matt. This causes a reaction throughout all of the characters, Matt was almost confused, Celia was angry and proud of herself, and El Patron was furious, thus causing his death. It is strange to think that by killing Matt was saving his life. She was giving him arsenic so that his body was unable to be transplanted (pg. 236). I wonder what Matt was feeling? I wonder how I would feel if I had just learned that the woman who was a mother to me was feeding me poison and killing me so that it could save my life? I don't think I could have handled it well.

Another part during this section that I thought really told us about the characters was this whole fiasco with Tam Lin. Matt really looked up to Tam Lin and thought of him as a role model. When he was treating Matt really bad and acted as if he never cared about Matt, it provoked a lot of emotion out of him. But I think that somewhere inside of Matt, it was telling him that Tam Lin really did love him. He later showed that he does care about Matt, and that it was all fake what he was doing; he was really getting Matt to escape.

This is just a little about this part of the book, but it conveys a lot about each character and what they really are like. This was a very exciting part for me to read, and I am looking forward for the next twist in this book.