Chapter 26 – The Lost Boys
Upon making it across the border, Matt is taken in, cleaned up and given food by a group of guards called "Keepers." These keepers where black uniforms with an emblem of a beehive on the sleeve. Matt takes the last name "Ortega" to help disguise his identity and utters a fake story of his parents being captured by the farm patrol that Tam Lin had supplied him. Due to Matt's polite mannerisms, he is labeled an "aristocrat" by the keepers.
After a nights sleep, he is led to a room of other boys by a keeper named Raul. All the boys are working at different tasks and are repeat several phrases relating to work, including "Its hard, but its fair." We learn that this is an orphanage/word camp. Matt tries to follow El Patron's lessons of commanding respect/showing authority. Matt will be transported to a Plankton factory in San Luis with two other boys, Fidelito (a small boy of about eight years old) and a larger, more boisterous boy named Chacho.
- What name did Matt taken when he asked? Why?
- How was Matt welcomed in Aztlan?
- What is Matt’s cover story?
- Why was Matt asked about skills?
- Is Matt familiar with the new technology available? Why or why not?
- What does “The orderly production of resources is vital to the general good of the people” (p. 264), “Its hard, but fair” and “Attention to the welfare of the nation is the highest virtue to which a citizen can aspire” (p. 265) tell you about the priorities of the country of Aztlan?
- Why did the boys have to be locked in?
- What is a keeper?
- What kind of place does Matt find himself at?
1- matt ortega
ReplyDelete2- his was treated okay
3- to say that his family got caught
4- to put him to work
5- no because el patron did not show him it
6- that they all mean work
7- so they could not escape
8- someone that is like a guard
9- matt found himself at an orphanage.
1 Matt Ortega
ReplyDelete2 He was fed,bathed, and given a shelter
3 He lost his parents to the farm patrol and wants to meet his friend in San Luis
4 Basically they want to use him for child labor
5 Nope. El Patron only let Matt use old fashioned things that El Patron would have used when he was younger
6 Aztlan is like your master
7 So they couldnt escape
8 Someone that watches over something
9 An orphanage with child labor
1. Matt Ortega.
ReplyDelete2. He was treated like a human.
3. His family went missing at the boarder.
4. They wanted him to work in the labor-orphanage.
5. No, Matt was only familiar with older materials and technology.
6. They intend for you to work all the time.
7. So that they couldn't run away.
8. A guard that watches the kids.
9. An orphanage that uses child labor.
-SaNcHo IS IN YOUR HOUUSE!!!!!!!
Mongoloid alert ^^
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