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JURASSIC PARK

JURASSIC PARK
Crichton, Michael
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City Where Published: New York
Date of latest copy: 1990
Edition: First Ballantine Books Edition: December 1991.
399 Pages, Paperback
I. A Brief Summary of the Plot.
A billionaire has created a technique to clone dinosaurs. From the left behind DNA that
his crack team of scientists and experts extract he is able to grow the dinosaurs in labs
and lock them up on an island behind electrified fences. He has created a sort of theme
park on the island which is located off the west coast of Costa Rica. The island is
called Isla Nublar. He plans to have the entire planet come and visit his wondrous
marvels. He asks a group of scientists from several different fields to come and view the
park, but something terribly goes wrong when a worker on the island turns traitor and
shuts down the power.
II. A Description of the Most Important Aspects of the Contents.
The main characters in the book are: John Hammond who is a
billionaire developer who has used his resources to create the dinosaur filled island
known as Jurassic Park. He is an old grandfather, and he dies in the book by a dinosaur
known as a Procompsognathus. Dr. Alan Grant who is a renowned paleontologist who agrees
to visit Jurassic Park only to find out it is the home of several Dinosaurs. Unlike the
movie Dr. Grant loves kids in the book. He also had a of a beard. Dr. Ellie Sattler is a
Paleobotinist and Alan Grant who is among the first people to tour Jurassic Park. Tim who
is the 11 year old grandson of John Hammond. He is kind of geeky, into computers and
loves Dinosaurs. (Reminds me of myself.) His 7 older sister is Alexis. She has a kind of
tomboy attitude and loves base-ball Ian Malcom is the Mathematician that uses Chaos
Theory to predict disastrous results. he only wears black and gray. He is presumably dead
in Jurassic Park the book, but miraculously is in the sequel, The Lost World. Finally
there is Dennis Nedry. He was the computer genius who's greed and ambition bring chaos to
Jurassic Park. There are many other characters that played a big part in the book, but I
thought they were the best and the plot revolved around them. The characters show the
greatest difference in the movie and the book. There were many opposites in the
characters and even the roles and elements of Tim and Lex were reversed.
The book starts off when some of the dinosaurs have escaped form the island. John Hammond
invites a group of scientists to the park. He also
invites his grandchildren. Denis Nedry took a bribe from a rival company to
get samples of Dinosaur DNA. In order to make his escape, he turns the
power off, even the electric fences. All hell breaks loose when the humans try to warn a
boat that it's transporting Dinosaurs to the mainland, and run away from them at the same
time.
III. The Significance of the Book to the Student.
This book had plenty of significance in it, even though a lot of the elements that were
significant were hidden. First of all this book thought us a few basic things about DNA.
How it's the building blocks of life, and stuff can be cloned. Like that sheep, Dolly.
Also it taught us what some scientific practices were about when different scientists
visited the island. Suchexamples are paleontologists, paleobotanists, and mathematicians.
1 other thing that this book teaches the student is that it is a prime example of the
differences between the movie and the book. And yes, the book was better.
IV. Evaluation of the Book.
Personally, I thought this was a great book. When I saw the movie, it was a blast. I
loved the movie, but when I read the book for the first time I was blown away. This has
been the second time I've read it and I must say it hasn't lost his touch. When I read
the book the first time I was rooting for the different characters and all, and the
second time I read it, it still kept those same elements. It still had it's flavor.
That's what I loved about this book. There is one thing I must recommend about this book
though. Read it as something for fun, not for school. And go at your own pace, but read a
lot, it's
a big book. The experience of the book it much better then.