Blog post #5: Not being accepted for who they are.
"My father was right, it didn't matter how much I lied on my resume, my real resume was in my cells."
Vincent, Gattaca
Our entire lives we have been taught to avoid discrimination, to treat people the way you want to be treated. This novel and movie really show the reality of what it would be like if equality wasn't something we value as greatly as we do today. Though the movie, 'Gattaca' and the novel 'The House of Scorpion' have different plots they have several things that make it easy to relate them both, one of which is the sense of equality in general.
On the outside both Matt and Vincent appear as if they are no different than the others. If someone were to not know about how they were made, nobody would have suspected any difference. Unfortunately the inside is what matters the most in both cases. No matter the amount of skills they may have, at the end of the day if you're the minority, you're not accepted. In both books, the minority is entirely opposite. Natural born baby, Vincent lives in Gattaca where it has become the 'norm' to be genetically engineered to have 'perfect' genes. In the novel 'The House of Scorpions' Matt's scenario is the opposite. He is born a genetical engineered child, while most of the world are normally conceived human beings, which brings up an odd topic. What is normal? In the two stories, the perception of normal is completely different, yet in both cases they are facing discrimination. I suppose the inference that I can make from that is everyone is forced to believe that the majority is superior than the minority in both stories. Truth is, Matt and Vincent are both just as, if not more capable then many of the others. They are being judged simply because of how they were conceived. Discrimination is an ongoing thing. It has occurred in the past, and it happens now. It most likely will carry on into the future. In both stories, the discrimination is taken quite far. Matt and Vincent were treated as if they were entirely different people. Vincent was constantly insulted due to the fact he was different from the rest, this was a similar case for Matt. People treated him like an animal, they pushed him around and called him names, thinking it was okay because he was a clone. Though both of them went through a lot, they overcame all the obstacles and proved everyone wrong in the end.
"My father was right, it didn't matter how much I lied on my resume, my real resume was in my cells."
Vincent, Gattaca
Our entire lives we have been taught to avoid discrimination, to treat people the way you want to be treated. This novel and movie really show the reality of what it would be like if equality wasn't something we value as greatly as we do today. Though the movie, 'Gattaca' and the novel 'The House of Scorpion' have different plots they have several things that make it easy to relate them both, one of which is the sense of equality in general.
On the outside both Matt and Vincent appear as if they are no different than the others. If someone were to not know about how they were made, nobody would have suspected any difference. Unfortunately the inside is what matters the most in both cases. No matter the amount of skills they may have, at the end of the day if you're the minority, you're not accepted. In both books, the minority is entirely opposite. Natural born baby, Vincent lives in Gattaca where it has become the 'norm' to be genetically engineered to have 'perfect' genes. In the novel 'The House of Scorpions' Matt's scenario is the opposite. He is born a genetical engineered child, while most of the world are normally conceived human beings, which brings up an odd topic. What is normal? In the two stories, the perception of normal is completely different, yet in both cases they are facing discrimination. I suppose the inference that I can make from that is everyone is forced to believe that the majority is superior than the minority in both stories. Truth is, Matt and Vincent are both just as, if not more capable then many of the others. They are being judged simply because of how they were conceived. Discrimination is an ongoing thing. It has occurred in the past, and it happens now. It most likely will carry on into the future. In both stories, the discrimination is taken quite far. Matt and Vincent were treated as if they were entirely different people. Vincent was constantly insulted due to the fact he was different from the rest, this was a similar case for Matt. People treated him like an animal, they pushed him around and called him names, thinking it was okay because he was a clone. Though both of them went through a lot, they overcame all the obstacles and proved everyone wrong in the end.
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