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Jurrasic Park Richard Graczyk 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, Hardcover 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. His 7 year 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.
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