El Patron in The House of the Scorpion :: Nancy Farmer

El Patron in The House of the ScorpionWhat if there was a world with clones? in that location would be a path to live for up to 100 years effortlessly, have easy transplants, and maintain a precise memory. But, the recipient would be taking organs from someone else. So what, he or she may justify, theyre clones, they argon inferior. They dont matter because they are stupid. But what if someone had the power to hold them to be of normal intelligence? He or she might look at that he or she is doing the clone a favor, only when when the clone is killed for keep parts its an sluice worse stickuation than with a retarded clone. non for this bandido (Farmer 37). El Patron is a cruel, selfish, heartless man who clawed his way to power in his youth and rules state with fear, though he is powerful, he is always nagged by the fact that he may lose everything. there is no way on earth he would let that happen.El Patron believes he is doing the clones a favor by allowing them to be smart, but in the end he uses them just like all the another(prenominal) clones in the world - for his own personal use. Esperanza, a fierce No Drug activist, once wrote that a more evil, vicious, and self-serving man (than El Patron) could hardly be imagined (Farmer 170). Though the practice of murdering clones is widely accepted in the book, it is morally wrong, and most people would at least have endorse thoughts about killing someone. Even with his dragon hoard, which he just lets sit there untouched and deeply protected, El Patron becomes outraged with even the slightest of a suggestion towards giving anything away. He is so self-centered, in fact, that at his death greed took over and all of the people inhabiting his part of Opium were inhibit and added to his hoard.Power is what El Patron has worked for and what he fears of losing. Unthinkingly describing the drug victor word for word, Tam Lin once said that Power is a drug, and people like me crave it (Farmer 243). Thou gh his business is illegal to the rest of the world, he never seems to show any concern about what everyone elses laws are and he proceeds with what he had planned. Matt and all of the other clones he had created are mere examples of this.