Five Legged Horse

In the story, House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, she writes a short chapter tittled, A Five-Legged Horse. In my opinion Nancy Farmer is trying to compare this place were Matt has found himself to a Monarchy."A monarchy is a form of government in which all political power is absolutely or nominally lodged with an individual, known as a monarch."(wikipedia). Farmer demonstrates this with Raul he is the one in charge the "Keeper" and the "Lost Boy"(0rphans)are to follow his every direction, with no buts about it.