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I know uncle Paolo has always dreamed of influencing the future of humanity by creating immortals, but he's taking it a step further by inserting his own genetic code into the gene pool that Will eventually produce Mr. Perfect. And create one of the female subjects give birth to what will essentially be uncle Paolo's son, will that child be traded different than the others? Suddenly I wonder just whether this plan of his is designed not just to have even more influence in the immortis project, but simply to have a daughter or son. It's a question I've never ask him or of the scientists: Do they want children? All living creatures have the built-in urge to procreate; that's a basic part of biology and one that most of them have sacrificed in order to work here. By the time they retire, it will be too late to have children. Once again, I'm reminded of how much is invested in me and in in the immortis project, and when I think of how close I came to abandoning this place last night, I feel ashamed. Yet a little regretful. The hurt in Eio's eyes when I ran...but I can't think about that. I have to stay strong. There's a slender path leading the way, and instead of matching the others' excruciatingly slow pace, I take the lead. As a result, I reach the glen a good five minutes before them. After climbing a small rise drenched in vivid green ferns and red heliconias, I descend again and find myself in Falk's Glen.

I like this passage because it show that Pia in her scientific mind, everything is going to be fine. They were doing another test, since every month there is a test day. Scientists with the aim to create an immortal race is still out of reach.In the beginning when it was testing day, she would start to question herself. Now she wants to take the lead to create another immortal person. I think population control played a role in the story,people did not have children. In this passage Uncle Paolo took a step further by inserting his own genetic code as we can see in our world today. The sciencits are challenging her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work.

This passage show Pia is starting to be her own person, she gets to do what she wants. As i said in the previous passages, Pia's character is desperate. She is wondering if she wants to stay or join another part of the village which is the real world. Everyone was calling her perfect and she would seat all day studying species in the beginning, now the author show that she has responsibility not just to the little cam but to the whole world because she is searching for somebody like her.

The author relates "origin" as an allegory for our society. When you have a society in which is focus on how to bring immortal I think it's stunning. I find the story unique and believable. Part of the appeal of the book is that they provide a window into what our society isn't, but could be.

Social critique, the author show that it's a right to pursue immortality. The scientist did not have children. The author show that scientist spent all of they time focused on immortality, so in that mindset there would be no desire for children and love.