The House of the Scorpion Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

He'd looked out the window where fields of white poppies stretched all the way to the shadowy hills. The whiteness hurt his eyes, and so he turned from them with relief to the cool darkness inside....

Water water everywhere! Or... not. Water is a strong presence in this book, but for a weird reason. We notice it because in this world, it hardly seems to exist. Matt's adventures take place in des...

Music is one of Matt's passions in life. He loves it, and he's also really good at it. He quickly masters the piano and guitar; the guy can even sing. Matt, is there anything you can't do? But it's...

The plankton factory, where Matt and the other Lost Boys work, is a bizarre place for sure. Apparently plankton is the hot new food in Aztlán (um, ew?), and the factory is where they harvest it. T...

El Patrón likes his stuff, and it's not hard to understand why. The more stuff he has, the more powerful and important he seems. He even decides to be buried with all his "belongings," including t...