Hello readers and today I am here to write about some real world connections to the book I have just finished, The House of the Scorpion.
The first real world connection I thought of while reading the book was dictatorship. For those of you who don't know what dictatorship is it means a country governed by a dictator. And that is what El Patron is basically doing. He forced his way into the power and was ruling Opium.
Another real world connection that I thought of was when we were able to clone a sheep. I thought that might connect to the idea of cloning in the book. Although we have not been able to clone humans we were able to still clone a sheep.
And the last real world connection I want to talk about is stem cell research. Stem cell research is a huge moral debate that is happening in the world right now and they are be bating the use of embryos. The U.S wants to use embryos for research so that they can study the cells within them but that means that they would be killing a potential life that could be brought into the world. This relates to the book because Matt was grown to be used for his parts and in the real world they want to use these potential pieces of life for their parts.
Thanks for reading and I encourage you to check out my other blogs for more info on The House of the Scorpion.
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