Farmer's future

There are a lot of changes that have happened from now until the future that Nancy Farmer describes in the book. Firstly, there are clones, but no one likes the clones because, firstly, they aren't real people, they are just copies. Another thing is that these clones usually have their minds destroyed, at birth, forcing people's first impressions make them hate clones. There was probably more than this to make people despise clones so much, but this is all the reasoning given in the book for people's loathing of Matt and the other clones. In the story, Farmer also changes the border of Mexico and the U.S.A. into a drug capital that helps both governments keep illegal immigrants from getting across the border. This happens after El Patrón and other drug lords, or farmers as they call themselves (even though they do no farming of their own), signed a contract with U.S.A. and Mexico, now called Aztlán, saying that they would keep everyone on their own side of the border and not sell their opium to the two countries, as long as they can use the land that is now a new country for farming opium, and they even named the country after the drug that it produces, opium. Farmer also hints at the fact that, although the U.S.A. used to be the place where everyone wanted to be, it is only a shadow of its former self. There are just as many people trying to get from there to Aztlán now, because the quality of life is actually better there. Tam Lin even tells Matt to go to Aztlán for this reason, and not to go to the U.S. because it is actually worse there now than it is in Aztlán. There are a lot of things that I may have missed, but these are the main things that Farmer has changed about now and the future in The House of The Scorpion, and, although some of it is potentially possible, I think much of it will be different.