HoTS vs Gattaca

I found that the main characters in House of the Scorpion and in Gattaca were quite different in my opinion. In the book, Matt is completely a clone, he was not born from a mother and has no family, and instead he was harvested from a cow and has the exact DNA from the outside in as El Patron. In the movie, Vincent was actually born and has a family; he is his own person with his own separate DNA. The only similar things about the two characters is that Matt is a clone of El Patron and Vincent is trying to be a clone of Jerome even though the two are completely different. Vincent was born with several disabilities which stopped his dream to travel to space, to fulfill his dream though, he pretended to be Jerome Morrow who was healthy enough to go to space but lost both his legs in accident. Both Matt and Vincent interact with surrounding characters very differently. In the House of the Scorpion, most of the characters hate Matt because he is a clone except for a few like Tam Lin and Celia. In Gattaca though, Vincent is actually treated better when he tries to be a clone of someone else. Both of these stories do have some things similar though, each one takes place in the future where they have the technology to do incredible things, like make clones. Along with the difference between the two characters Matt and Vincent, there are some familiar things with the people who interact with them. Although most of the Alacran family hates Matt, Maria still believes that Matt is a good person despite being a clone. She tags alone side with Matt helping him escape from Opium. After the murder of the dictator, Vincent must avoid being caught by the police at all times. Through all of this action, Vincent meets an ally, Irene Cassini, a workmate. Later Irene finds out that Vincent isn’t really the guy who says he his but still stays as an ally helping Vincent to reach his goal of going to space. Overall, the two characters are very different in my opinion; they both live in different environments and have a different attitude to the people around him and vice versa. They both however have different events that changed their lives. Vincent had swimming competitions with his brother, and that one moment when he won for the first time, he knew that he was capable of great things. Matts lived changed from the imprisonment from Rosa. There, he learned different things about the people around, and it was there where he was rescued and introduced to El Patron.