Gattaca, Personal reflection Essay

“”My dream is almost at a success, but there is nothing that can completelyexplain thestruggle I faced through my life. I am Jerome as everyone thinks, butreally inside I amVincent.

I have been living a valid life in my invalid self, in thisgenetically cast society,where your DNA maps your entire life. In this society, your are normal ifyou aregenetically modified, and are guaranteed to succeed in life, whereas ifyour not, you wontbe guaranteed to be accepted by society, and restricted to the manual laborjobs. I was born with a heart condition, and was told that my life expectancy wasto only 30years of age. From that moment on, my parents knew that I would not live upto thegenetically superior standards in life and soon afterwards, I realized thistoo. I wasautomatically left with no choices in life.

It wasn’t long after my birththat my parentshad another baby, my brother Anton, but he was born of enhanced genes, justlike the restof the society. As years passed by with my brother Anton, I felt the realcompetition ofnatural born against genetically enhanced born as my brother Anton was muchstrongerthan me, he was much faster and smarter then me, he was what society calledgeneticallyperfect, whereas I was the complete opposite. Even my parents hadacknowledged that Iam fated as a low class person in this society. I became angered that Anton became taller then me so quickly, my parentsalso gave himall the attention and respect. No matter how hard I trained or studied, Ijust could notmake it to my dreams, which was to become an astronaut and leave Earth. Because of mygenetic status, my applications were always rejected, so I was forced tobecome a cleanerat Gattaca, my parents told me this would be the closest I’d get to mydreams.

I wouldn’tgive up there though, I know I had the intellect and will power to do whatI wanted,though my genetic status left me in no position to ever reach my goals. Thediscrimination I faced proved that there is no equal opportunity foreveryone in thisworld. I thought it might be possible for me to become accepted in thissociety, especially when my brother Anton and I had a swimming competition where his strengthhad failedhim and I had ended up saving him from drowning. Even though at this pointmy strengthhad proved to be better then his, I was still not accepted and stillunrecognized by anyonein this society.

I soon decided to move out; I felt I had no reason to stayat home as myparents barely noticed I existed. I tore my photo out the family picture asI left home. No longer could I face the pressure of being an outcast, I was tired ofbeing cleaner andwas prepared to do anything to be recognized as a genetically superiorperson. I had metan unfortunate man named Jerome Morrow who became my room mate, but was inasevere accident which left him paralyzed and discarded from society also.

Jerome wasgenetically advanced and through his help, for the first time I had becomerecognized as anormal person in this world. With my legs extended and with Jerome’sidentity I hadbecome a valid person, although I was forced to maintain this identity bypassing all thescreen tests with Jerome’s DNA, I had indirectly become Jerome Murrow. Everyday, Ihad to scrape away my invalid self to ensure my real identity was notrevealed. I had finally gotten the job I had wanted, but life was still hard,especially when themission director was murdered, and my invalid eyelash was accidentally leftbehind at themurder scene. There were new screen tests developed, I was becomingfearful, I had toconcentrate harder and be more weary of my surroundings. I would doanything to reachmy dreams, thus I had to make sure that no one would find out who I amuntil I hadreached it.

Soon I had met a girl named Irene, who in a way was like me,she was amongthe normal class society but still had flaws as she had a certain healthcondition. This iswhy I could easily relate to her as we became closer to each other. Itwasn’t long until mydream had come true as I was appointed to fly to Titan. In the end, only few had found my real identity, including Irene.

I now sitin thespaceship ready for Titan as I had just reflected .