GATTACA Essay

Mateo Castro

January 13 2015

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GATTACA Response Essay



Gattaca Is A story set in the future where everything revolves around genes. There is a gene lab that people have to give a urine test before entering to make sure you are who you say you are . A job interview is as simple as a urine test and nothing else. The main characters are vincent and his brother jerome. Jerome is supposed to be a genius and his brother is supposed to be a sick person who only lives for a while. Yet, the rules were reversed when jerome was the failure and vincent came out successful. But even though vincent was sick he had a good spirit and believed in himself and his brother did not .

Jerome and vincent were each others friends and had no others. vincent and jerome switched lives so that vincent would be able to go on a space mission and live out his dream. Since he was sick and expected to die he would’nt have been able to do it all by himself. Since his brother is a genius and could go to space, jerome gave vincent his life. Therefore, vincent had to changes lis looks and features and even stretch out his legs so that he could look as tall as jerome. Jerome might as well been the sick one because he is living in a wheelchair and can not go anywhere. Vincent was expected to die at a certain time but his life is way over due. Since jerome thought he was perfect he figured that he had nothing to worry about and nothing to conquer. Where as vincent had dreams and he wanted a lot of things and he was ready to work hard to make his dream a Reality. Vincent had a strong human spirit and eventhough he was sick he wanted to do things in his short life he had. Since jerome was perfect he had no goals and nothing to work for so in the end he ended up the failure.



In Conclusion i would like to say that even the person that has shortest life expectancy can be the one that works the hardest to conquer his dreams. If a person puts their mind to a certain goal they can make that goal happen no matter what their health is like. Sometimes its not the best thing to be a genius and have everything because then you have nothing to work toward and nothing to worry about. Where as a person that has nothing will have dreams and something to think about and something to work toward.