Gattaca Post - Emily

Matt in The House of the Scorpion and Vincent in Gattaca are fairly similar characters. Both characters are other people just in different ways. Matt is a clone of someone else so he is exactly like El Patron was when he was little. Vincent wants to have a job at Gattaca but is unable to because of how he is genetically modified. Vincent pretends to be Jerome who is genetically perfect, just he's in a wheelchair. Towards the end of the book Matt has to leave the estate and he is caught by Farm Patrol. The people at the orphanage can't know he is a clone and that he is property of Alacran Estate. When Vincent was younger him and his brother had swimming competitions in the ocean, they would see who could go the farthest without stopping. When Matt was little he was imprisoned by Rosa for a couple of years. I think this is similar they were both fighting for their lives in different ways. Matt was being treated like a pig and was becoming really unhealthy. Vincent was in the ocean swimming for his life in order to beat his brother, which he never did until they were older. He would get to a point when it was so tiring it was hard for him to go back. As a kid vincent was treated worse than his brother and it wasn't fair. Vincent's younger brother Anton was genetically modified to be the perfect child. On the other hand Vincent was the first child and had quite a few health issues. Even though the books have completely different story lines, you can compare the main characters in a few different ways.