Lesley Olson, Period 8, Chapter 7

I agree with this statement because if you really think about it society is what controls how we think, how we want to look, and what is right and what is wrong. The society in House of the Scorpion taught that clones are beasts and have no knowledge. Society taught people that clones are not people and are not equal to everyone else so they are treated like animals. Parents would teach their children that clones are bad so they would start to think that and eventually have generations who have a mindset that clones are bad. For example, the servants of the house treated Matt like an animal and put him in a cell with hay and so once the children saw this they were thinking almost as if Matt were an animal. Their society somehow manipulated their minds into thinking that clones should be treated poorly. Characters like Tom and Maria are not to blame for treating Matt poorly because society has not only taught them, but everyone else to do so. If the society were to be different and say that there was nothing wrong with clones then, clones like Matt would be treated equally and with more respect.