Chapter 1-5 Tyler

The first chapter of The House of the Scorpion was quite short, as expected, but served its purpose in the fact that it set the scene and provided background information about Matt and how he came to be. In the next chapter, Farmer describes Matt as a small child that's life is viewed differently from being a genetic success to a very sheltered boy. He is being taken care of by someone that he loves dearly but Matt has no idea of what she really does. In the third chapter, Matt meets some mysterious kids around his house and wants to meet them, so he breaks the glass window and jumps out, getting sliced up by the broken glass in the process. Chapter four is about him becoming some-what friends with Maria, one of the kids that he met by his house and how he realizes how sheltered he has been. I think that the some-what friendship between Matt and Maria will blossom in to a very strong friendship that will take them in to places that they never dreamed of going.