FREE ESSAY ON JURRASIC PARK

JURRASIC PARK

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Number of pages: 399 Original Copyright Date:1990
Date Completed: Oct 25 Publisher: Ballantine Books
Plot Summary
The Story takes place on an Island off the Coast of Costa Rica. Where A very wealthy man,
John Hammond, Has set up A Genetically engineered Dinosaur preserve. Before he opens this
living attraction to the public(only the people who can afford it) He needs people, who
he thinks will be good judges of the Park. He brings them in and begins to awe them with
the sights of real dinosaurs. One of the visitors, Ian Malcolm, predicts that this is
impossible to accomplish. For he says there are flaws in the system, and according to his
chaos theory these animals cannot be predicted.
While they are in awe one of the computer programmers, Dennis Nedry, Is secretly planning
to steal dinosaur embryos from the park and sell them to a company that is trying to stay
in business with Hammond. The only way Nedry can obtain these embryos id to shut down the
park power so he can sneak into the freezing chamber. 
He does while the other visitors are touring the park, and everything goes wrong from
there. As he is racing to get to the dock, where a boat is waiting to take the embryos,
He realizes that he has gone the wrong way. He gets out of the car to try and figure out
where he is and he's attacked and killed by one of the dinosaurs. 
Now the power is out and all the animals can get out of the no longer electrified fences.
The others are stopped in front of the T-Rex holding area and he breaks through and
attacks them. Everyone flees and is scattered through the park. 
The animals begin attacking the control building. Since all the power is out there is no
way to stop them. One of the Scientists, Wu, finds that the once all female dinosaurs are
beginning to breed. They think they got the power back on so they try to put all the
animals back in their holding areas. 
Little did they know that the whole time the park was running on auxiliary power, and
once this power ran out they could not restore the main power. When all the power finally
ran out the animals began attacking full forced now. The only way to get the park running
again was to have someone manually turn on another auxiliary power generator so they
could get the main power running again.
Two people died attempting this and finally one succeeded. They got power on and were
able to call the Costa Rican government to come in and rescue them out. Once they were
flying away bombs were dropped on the island and it was totally destroyed.
Characters
There were many main characters in Jurassic Park. First there was Alan Grant, a
Paleontologist who was about 5' 11', thin, and was very interested in dinosaurs. He
didn't have any strong opinion about the park except that he was so excited to see real
dinosaurs. Next there was Ellen Sattler, She was Grant's partner in digs. She was very
beautiful, but very active and strong. She seemed to be very interested in this amazing
new world of the dinosaurs. Next there was Ian Malcolm, a tall mathematician who always
wore black. He had very strong opinions opposing the park. He knew things would go wrong
but no one listened to him. I enjoyed his way of proving everything he said. Next there
was John Hammond, a very stubborn old man who insists that his park is fine. He
constantly shuns away suggestions of how to make his park better. Next there are a
brother and sister, Tim and Alexis. Tim is ten and very smart for his age. He tries to do
what he can to help and stays out of the way when he can't. He said sister Alexis is just
the opposite, She is young, immature, and is constantly getting in the way. She thinks
this whole thing is a game and does whatever entertains her regardless of other people.
Conflict
The conflict was that man created dinosaurs without thinking. Now the dinosaurs were
trying to live freely and in the process trying to destroy the barriers in the way which
happen to be the men that created them. I believe that we should not temper with things
that are living and unpredictable. I was not satisfied in the way this problem was
solved. After the men created dinosaurs they were trying to survive on instinct and the
men got scared and decided to obliterate the helpless dinosaurs. They didn't even think
twice about killing them. Since they were a threat the needed to be eliminated. Men
should before they act in a way that could come back to haunt them.
Author's theme
I believe the authors theme was that when you have the power do incredible things you
need to be responsible and think about the out come. The purpose is to teach people that
you can be affected by other people's choices and they can be affected by yours. Everyone
needs to realize this and the world will come together easier.
Personal Reactions
This book opened my eyes as to what could happen in tough situations. During my reading I
constantly became frustrated as the little girl, lex, would keep getting in the way
during tough situations. In some places I couldn't stop reading because I felt the need
to know what happened next. I wanted to tell the characters what to do or what they
should watch out for. I felt like I was Tim when he was with the Raptors trying to
outsmart them. The book satisfied me Thoroughly I loved how many things were happening at
once and I had to read into the story to figure things out.
Notes on authors style
I loved Michael Crichton's Writing. I enjoyed how he showed me what was going on instead
of telling me. He made me feel like I was constantly there overlooking everyone When he
described the Raptors gnawing at the building while they were trying to stay calm. He
kept me in suspense of what was really going to happen. 
Significant quotes
An error, Hammond said, nodding I thought so I had a feeling all along there must be an
error. 
This is significant because this the time when I started to worry that Hammond, The man
who was sure the park was fine, was contradicting himself. Also when Malcolm said 
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left
extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?
Yes, Grant said.
I think this is significant because this is when Grant, who has been dreaming about the
day when he would see living dinosaurs, decides that it would be better to leave them
extinct.