Matt vs Vincent; Fake Identities

Through reading the House of the Scorpion and watching the movie "Gattaca", i have found that both Matt and Vincent had different ways of faking their identity, but with the same goal which was ultimately to achieve a different identity where they would be more respected by other people. Matt needed to fake his identity for the purpose of not being mistreated where Vincent had to fake his identity so he wouldn't be looked at as a non healthy naturally born child. But the want that they both faked their identities were quite different.

First off, lets look into the reason why everyone disliked Matt. Matt wasn't naturally born but instead was a clone or a copy of a guy named El Patron. No one liked him because nobody thought that clones should be treated as real humans and that the were bad animals of any sort. When the time came, matt was forced to cross the border intone the United States in order to stay alive. But in order for the people across the border to believe that he was a real person, make had to tell them he was a real human and that his family and him were trying to cross the border but he was the only person who safely made it across. If people found out that he was a clone, they would try and help him survive but instead mis-treat him. Unlike Vincent (who we will get to in just bait), the only thing that was separating people form finding out that he was actually was a clone was the mark on his foot the read out, "Property of the Altran Estate." All Matt had to do to fake his real identity was to say and lie about his past life and how he lived. Although both Matt's and Vincent's story both took place in the future, i believe that Vincent's way of faking his identity was much more complex.

Vincent dreamed of being an astronaut and going up into space. But since he was a naturally born child with a heart disease, he wasn't allow dot be one. Naturally born child's were looked to as very unfit and not healthy people and for that reason, weren't allowed to participate in advanced tidies such as being an astronaut. So in order to be one, Vincent was able to find a clone that was allowed into the head quarters because his DNA and blood was in the security system. But this clone was in a wheel chair so he couldn't do anything any ways. So Vincent took blood from him and but a patch of it on his finger so that when he passed through the gates and put his finder on the scanner, it would pass as him being a clone, a healthy person. He also had to have pee samples fro the clone as well. As you can see, this process was much  more complex than matts.

Something that i found very similar between them was the urgency each one of them had to fake their identity. Take Vincent for example, if he did not fake his identity, he would have been stuck with being a janitor while matt would have been killed. But all in all, they both were able to pull of their fake identity for the most part, and were able to be the person that would allow them to be who they really wanted to be.