Jurassic Park By, Michael Crichton
Characters:
Dr. Alan Grant- famous paleontologist, athletic, likes children, down-to-earth, professor at University of Denver, unbiased, wife died, studies baby dinosaurs
Dr. Ellie Sattler- Grant’s partner, attractive, 24, paleobotanist, marrying a doctor from Chicago, blond hair
John Hammond- owner of InGen, dinosaur fanatic, wants to clone dinosaurs, wants a huge profit from Jurassic Park, greedy, old, rich, annoyed by Malcolm, dies b/c of the dinosaurs, wants to create another park just like Jurassic Park
Tim Murphy- 11, Hammond’s grandson, loves dinosaurs, mature, intelligent, quick thinker
Lex Murphy- 8, Tim’s younger sister, plays baseball, parents are getting a divorce
John Arnold- head engineer at
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they get on a helicopter and pick up Dennis Nedry the island is foggy, hilly, and rugged get their first glimpse of the dinos
Welcome
arrived at Jurassic Park
Ellie thinks the brontosaurus is graceful
Grant thinks they are moving faster than they’re supposed to
Jurassic Park
Grant thinks about the debate between cold and warm bloodedness--thinks that dinos have to be warm blooded
Ellie sees poisonous plants by the pool
Grant/Ellie see additional bars protecting the windows in the lodge
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth going on tour of the park
Gennaro wants to know if Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm think it’s safe
Gennaro talks about Tina (the girl that got bit) and the lizard attacks on the main land
Malcolm says that animals have gotten off of the island b/c chaos theory
Hammond’s grandkids show up
The Tour
Tim recognizes Grant
Regis takes everyone to the labs
Wu explains how they get their DNA-- mosquitoes preserved in amber see a baby velociraptor-- stands upright and has yellow and brown stripes raptor jumps into Tim’s arms all dinos are female and cannot reproduce-- Malcolm doesn’t believe it sometimes they have to replace damaged DNA sequences with the DNA of other animals
Control
Malcolm asks Wu if they have made any compys (animal that bit
Nick and summer found an egg when dinosaurs was once roaming. Soon they found out it was a T-Rex. In the beginning the book starts with Nick’s grandpa
Dennis Nedry and John Hammond wanted to get rich, while Sal wanted to see her mother; however all wanted to complete their mission no matter what it takes. Dennis Nedry was experienced with the computer, and was one of the computer programmers for Jurassic Park. A reader must know this to understand what role he played in Jurassic Park. The book states, “Nedry had mumbled about doing computers on the island.” (Crichton)
Poetic Justice in Jurassic Park Poetic justice is an outcome in which evil is punished and kindness is rewarded. This can be found in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, a story in which a crazed scientist, John Hammond, assembles a team of top scientists to recreate extinct dinosaurs to use as attractions at his amusement park. In Jurassic Park, Ed Regis, John Hammond, and Dennis Nedry are perfect examples of poetic justice and are rightly punished. One character to suffer from poetic justice is John Hammond, the owner of InGen.
“He prays because he knows he doesn’t control it. He’s at the mercy of it” is a perfect quote by Ian Malcolm, inviting the audience to believe Hammond has no control of the park, and hasn’t realised the implications of what he is doing, let alone the future of the park. “The scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn’t stop to think if they should (Ian)”, this sustains the view that nobody at the park had consideration for what would happen if their experiment worked. When failure did eventually happen, the dinosaurs escaped and wreaked havoc on the island, causing multiple deaths. This ultimately aligns with the topic of pursuit of knowledge leading to their destructive
Mariah Jensen Mrs. Ruiz English 102: Literary Analysis 18 April 2023 Current Actions Are Essential to Future Outcomes It is in the hands of humankind to preserve or destroy planet Earth. Indeed, as Mr. Travis said, “The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, could start an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our earth and destinies down through Time, to their very foundations” (Bradbury 141). In the story “A Sound of Thunder,” written by author Ray Bradbury, he shares a tale set in the year 2055. A man named Eckels paid for the opportunity to travel back in time to experience the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of hunting a dinosaur in an ancient jungle. Before exiting the time machine, his safari guide, Mr. Travis, explained the importance
Simeraly, in Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcom brings up his concerns regarding the park with John Hammond, Malcolm says, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't step to think if they should.” Malcolm calls out both Hammond and his scientists for not weighing the consequences of the park becoming open to the public and how it could harm society. Malcolm accuses them all of being so consumed with excessive pride and seeing if they would be able to create dinosaurs, that they didn't stop and think whether it would be a good idea or not and why it could lead to even more negative consequences. When first shown the lab, Malcolm warns Hammond and his scientists of the consequences of the creation of life, saying “ ‘If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.’ ”
I do not agree with the proposal to open Jurassic Park. The person who brought this concept to life was John Hammond, the owner and founder of InGen Corporation. John Hammond was portrayed as greedy, which impacts his judgement wholly. I do not believe that Hammond is a very logical person, as he seems much too financially invested in his park to worry about plausible complications. He acts blindly and naïvely, as he continued to believe that nothing could go wrong in his park.
The amount of safety and security that would have to be in place in Jurassic Park would be extreme, mainly due to civilian safety. Security could come from other countries, and/or governments that have invested in the park itself or even volunteers who come to help. Security would have access to high powered weapons as well as larger scale weapons for the larger dinosaurs. Cages that would be able to withstand a dinosaur’s fury would have to be implemented, as well as the use of electric fences. The park would be more secure if there was security and a group of police officers that regularly patrol holding areas, and tourist centers.
Moving on, another part of the story that will be better differently is when Bradbury went on to describe the death of the tyrannosaurus. Bradbury describes it in such detail, it is kind of overwhelming. Taking out the part where he describes the tyrannosaurus falling after being shot, and adding dialogue between Travis and Eckels would make it greatly better. The reason for this is because Travis needs to yell at Eckels for backing out, since Eckels technically agreed not to by going on the trip. Lastyly, the ending.
Abhinav Vittalam English I Honors Mrs. Henderson 25 February 2023 Alan Grant Character Analysis Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park follows the story of a group of scientists who visit a theme park filled with genetically engineered dinosaurs. Among these scientists is Alan Grant, a paleontologist who becomes a key player in the park's events. Grant is a complex character with several key traits that shape his behavior and growth throughout the novel. One of Grant’s most defining traits is his love for paleontology.
Title Researchers and scientists have constructed extensive research on dinosaur’s extinction. Speculation instead of real evidence seems common in most theories about the dinosaurs’ extinction. However, Jay Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” is the complete opposite of speculation over evidence. Rather, Gould uses the mix of persuasive techniques, such as rhetorical questions, logos, along with profound evidence to not only disapprove of other theories but convince readers of his place on the dinosaur’s extinction.
For starter, scientists are considering bringing back multiple different species and are working very hard on ways to do that. They have come up with multiple ways to do, one of them is extracting DNA from that animal, like a fossil or frozen mammoth. They then use that DNA and insert it into a surrogate mom, of a close species, and have a surrogate father, of the same close species as the mother, involved in the process. They they have a new old species back roaming the earth again. They can help to
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that became extinct 65 million years ago. Over the course of the 4 million years we have been living, scientists have observed our world. Scientists have taken scientific facts combined with the bodies of many Dinosaurs to help come up with theories about extinction. As scientists found more dinosaurs they wondered how dinosaurs became extinct. Scientists realized that our planet had been inhabited by another mammal before humans.
The storyline tries to make us to think about what is going in the story. The characters need to come up with how they are going to take down the dinosaur. Time traveling can affect many of the characters in certain ways. For example, In Sound of Thunder Eckels accidentally falls off the path which affects the timeline. Eckels learned that there were consequences to what he did.
Now the island is a functioning tourist attraction with a theme park, hotels and a mall. But while the island is attracting more tourists than it can handle, the corporation has noticed a sharp decline in attendance in recent years. Desperate to attract a new crowd the In Gen corporation genetically a new breed of dinosaur. However the beast cannot be contained. As it wrecks havoc on the island, the employees of Jurassic World do everything they can to keep disaster from happening.