Mutation, by Robin Cook, is a twisted and scientific adventure, of a man's dream to create the perfect son. He succeeds in his quest yet, his results are not what you might say praiseworthy. Victor, the main character, tried to create the perfect son. He later discovers that his so-called perfect son, VJ, is not who and what he thought. VJ is a mastermind who is obsessed with learning as much as he can, and kills whoever gets in his way.Tampering with genetic makeup and cloning, are not good experiments; they can result with disastrous effects. Trying to control the traits and/or sex of a child, or whatever else one might want, by mixing up genes and chromosomes is not a full proof way to obtain their wishes. It effected VJ's interaction with children, he would never play the games but would watch instead, he would get into fights. It affected his relationship with his parents also, he would lie and say that he would be spending the night at his friend's house when in fact he was working on his next scientific discovery in secrecy.If a child were a genius, he/she would be unable to interact with children his/her own age. An explanation of this would be that the child would be too smart to fully enjoy his/her childhood. That child would find that things that children his own age did were either too dumb or boring. It would affect his/her schoolwork,because the child would become bored with the assignments and would not be eager to be in school as much as he would if he/she were normal. For example, VJ did not want anyone to know that he was a genius. He would not participate in games with children his own age, when forced he would lose intentionally. He did this to hide his intellectual superiority. His explanation was, "I prefer not to draw attention to myself. I don't want anyone to pry, and people seem to get so curious when there is a prodigy in their midst." When VJ faked his drop of IQ, he fooled the rest of the peopl...
