The House Of The Scorpion Character Analysis

Although The Screwtape Letters and The House of the Scorpion are very different stories by different authors, the main characters experience events that lead to growth. The main character, also known as the “patient”, in the Screwtape letters is tempted by an aspiring devil named Wormwood. The patient fights these temptations with the help of some friends especially his girlfriend. Likewise, Matt, the main character in The House of the Scorpion, has his friends Maria, Chacho, and Fidelito to help throughout his story. In both cases, the authors show that friends can help you through many temptations even when you have to oppose people who want you to die.
One similarity between the adventures the characters is that through Matt and the patient’s struggles they had people who helped them. Wormwood’s patient had his Christian girlfriend to help keep him on the right path. “He has escaped the worldly friends with whom you tried to entangle him; he has ‘fallen in love’ with a very Christian woman and is temporarily immune from your attacks on his chastity; and the various methods of corrupting his spiritual life which we have been trying are so far unsuccessful.” (Lewis 153) Matt also had many people to help
Throughout Matt’s journey, people constantly wanted him dead. The purpose for which Matt was created was to supply El Patron with his heart when El Patron grew close to dying. “In the end the only thing that mattered was how strong his heart was.” (Farmer 216) Matt didn’t want to die so he escaped from this sentence with the help of his friends. In The Screwtape Letters, no one wanted or could afford for the patient to die. While the war was happening, bombs were being dropped over where the patient was living. Screwtape was advising Wormwood. “Whatever you do, keep your patient as safe as you possibly can.” (Lewis 157) Even though no one wanted the patient to die he did, and Matt didn’t die against everyone’s