Benito is the oldest son of Mr. Alacrán and Felicia, and the great-great grandson of El Patrón. The family assumes he is the heir-apparent of Opium—however, he is both unkind and unintelligent. El Patrón forces him to marry Fami, a woman Benito hates, showing how El Patrón disregards the wishes of his family members for his own ambitions.
Benito Alacrán Quotes in The House of the Scorpion
The The House of the Scorpion quotes below are all either spoken by Benito Alacrán or refer to Benito Alacrán. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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“I should have known what he—it—was the minute I saw it. No servant would be allowed to keep a child or live away from the others. Benito told me about the situation, only I thought it was living somewhere else. In a zoo, maybe. Wherever those things are kept.”
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Benito Alacrán Quotes in The House of the Scorpion
The The House of the Scorpion quotes below are all either spoken by Benito Alacrán or refer to Benito Alacrán. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4
Quotes
“I should have known what he—it—was the minute I saw it. No servant would be allowed to keep a child or live away from the others. Benito told me about the situation, only I thought it was living somewhere else. In a zoo, maybe. Wherever those things are kept.”
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