Acceptance is hard for families, especially for older individuals, so it is natural for the Alacrán family not to accept Matt for being a clone. “‘Benito told me about the situation, only I thought it was living somewhere else. In a zoo, maybe’”(Farmer 25). The Alacrán family does not accept Matt because clones aren’t supposed to be out in the real world like humans, they believe clones should be held in zoos like wild animals. The family is probably having a hard time accepting that their great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather is now also a young
