ipl-logo

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park

863 Words4 Pages

A Big Dreamer In this world there are many kinds of persons, good, ambitious, mean, and others more. In the book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, the reader is able to observe different kinds of persons. One of them is the important figure John Hammond, a rich and old man who is obsessed with dinosaurs. (Hammond is man with many of these personalities.) Hammond main personality is that he is a big dreamer. Hammond had a dream, that dream was to recreate dinosaurs, however in order to do such a thing he needed many specialists and experts. Being the owner of InGen and having many sponsors from other countries, he is able to make his dream come true. InGen is a company that is doing research about extinct animals and recreating them to set …show more content…

Jurassic Park is a big place where InGen had all what they need to run all over the park, except eight percent of the …show more content…

When Ian Malcolm visits the park he does not stop judging the park and saying bad but at the same time true things about the park, ¨You were worried about losing animals, and your procedures were designed to advise you instantly if you had less than the expected number. But that wasn’t the problem, the problem was, you had more than the expected number¨(pg 165.) Malcolm is ¨attacking¨ Hammond every time he has a chance, even when he was almost dying. Ian Malcolm use Chaos Theory to explain how he thinks there is something wrong with Jurassic Park. ¨And now chaos theory proves that unpredictability is built into our daily lives. It is as mundane as the rainstorm we cannot predict.¨ (pg 312.) Malcolm was very negative about the island, especially after he was attacked by the dinosaur in the park. Hammond ignored many times what Malcolm was telling and warning him about, even when his park is collapsing. Malcolm even called HAmmond idiot because he believed that he could destroy the world. Also Ian told Hammond that Jurassic Park is not a normal zoo, after he tried to compare it to a normal zoo. When Hammond realized what was happening to his park, he doesn’t admit that Malcolm was right about the park, so he start blaming others and planning to build another

Show More
Related

  • Examples Of Poetic Justice In Jurassic Park

    759 Words  | 4 Pages

    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.

    Read More

  • Redwood National Park Research Paper

    306 Words  | 2 Pages

    The plants in the park are movie stars, appearing in movies such as Jurassic Park and Star Wars. More than 200 exotic species live in the area, but some like the northern spotted owl are dying off.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Justice In Jurassic Park

    861 Words  | 4 Pages

    Poetic Justice, an outcome in which vice is punished and virtue is rewarded usually in a manner peculiarly or ironically appropriate for instance when humans attempt to control nature and are justly punished. This can be found in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, a story in which a crazed scientist, John Hammond, assembled a team of top scientists to recreate extinct dinosaurs to use as attractions at his amusement park. In Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Ed Regis, John Hammond, and Dennis Nedry were rightly punished. One character to suffer from poetic justice is John Hammond, the owner of InGen. Throughout Jurassic Park John Hammond is deceptive, selfish, and misleading which is wrong because although what he did wasn’t very serious it could have gotten worse over time and he could have begun to lie about serious situations and end up committing a crime, therefore, he had to die before he caused someone to be someone to be

    Read More

  • Dinosaurs In The Hood Analysis

    1295 Words  | 6 Pages

    He uses juxtaposition when he says the movie will be “Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness,” creating a creature movie with the influence of “hood boys” (Smith, Dinosaurs in the Hood, line 2). In the last three lines of the first stanza, Smith uses imagery to paint the scene of an African American boy playing with a toy dinosaur as he gazes out his window to see a T.Rex because “there has to be a T. Rex.” Smith is saying that if this was a stereotype filled movie it would have to have a T.rex in it due to the overuse of that certain beast, but leaves the question open to if the dinosaur is stereotyped what African American cliches of the boy have to be in the

    Read More

  • Duality In Beowulf

    1442 Words  | 6 Pages

    Somewhere far away a lizard sits on a tree branch in the African plains, contemplating her existence as a reptilian being. She ponders the evolution of her kind and theorizes how she would have survived as a dinosaur in Jurassic period. The lizard recounts all the teachings she learned in lizard school and how the land she now roams was once so different. She delves deeper into thoughts of how her counterpart of that time would have been wildly dissimilar, although they are technically the same. Like the lizard, the world as viewed now is so vastly different from the way it was at the dawn of time.

    Read More

  • Stephen Jay Gould Sex Drugs Disasters And The Extinction Of Dinosaurs

    343 Words  | 2 Pages

    Stephen Jay Gould's article, "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”, discusses the essence of science and takes into consideration the significant distinction between both science and mere speculations. To my understanding, Gould is trying to communicate to his readers that sometimes scientists too fall victim to the trending themes of our culture and develop these senseless speculations to gain recognition. In order to prove his point, Gould introduces three theories on how the demise of the dinosaurs came to be- sex, drugs, and disaster. He explains that these will be an effective way of illustrating the difference between pseudoscience and genuine science. In my opinion, Gould’s purpose was to show us, the readers, how

    Read More

  • Grizzly Bear Environmental Issues

    1211 Words  | 5 Pages

    transferred to the Toledo Zoo sometime around the fall. The toledo zoo announced Friday that the cubs, which weigh about 50 pounds are less than a year old. The Wildlife officials stated that they're too young to survive in the wild life without their mother to protect them. " An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the (hiker's) body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding," the park said in a media statement.

    Read More

  • John Hammond In Jurassic Park

    864 Words  | 4 Pages

    One difficulty is that the dinosaurs he tried to create were less like zoo animals at a local attraction and far more terrifying. For example, Crichton describes the the following scene, “Then the huge head came down, entirely blocking the shattered windshield. The tyrannosaur banged again on the front hood of the Land Cruiser. Tim grabbed the seat as the car rocked on its wheels. The tyrannosaur banged down twice more, denting the metal” (Crichton).

    Read More

  • Lance Armstrong: The Most Prominent Trait Personality

    2377 Words  | 10 Pages

    1. Introduction Trait theories focus on traits, that which is stable and relatively constant over different situations and times, as being the main indicators of personality (Prager, n.d.). The continuous aspect of traits offers a predictability of future behaviours across various conditions; thus allowing for personality archetypes to be created and assumptions to be made within the constructed archetypes. Multiple theories have been developed that establish various archetypes or models which allow people to be classified into personality types.

    Read More

  • Diprotodon's Extinction

    182 Words  | 1 Pages

    But the lecture says that Australia is too large and has so many landscape variaty that human 's fire could not have caused so tremendous damage. The second theory suggests that the diprotodon 's extinction is a result of human 's hunting to it.

    Read More

  • What Is The Theme Of A Sound Of Thunder

    668 Words  | 3 Pages

    Another time Travis panics is after they kill the dinosaur. Line s260-264. “Thousands of dollars in insurance! We guarantee no one leaves the path. He left it.

    Read More

  • Costa Rican Island: The Lost World By Richard Levine

    399 Words  | 2 Pages

    When strange creatures continue to be found on a private Costa Rican island, it draws the eyes and ears of paleontologist Richard Levine and his acquaintance, Ian Malcolm. These two brilliant individuals combine forces and investigate what they refer to as “the lost world.” At first, Malcolm is in denial and does not want to believe in the fact of dinosaurs still being alive due to his last experience and almost dying. This forces Levine to travel to Costa Rica for a weekend to observe the mysterious corpses. With fear of the government suddenly finding out about the island, Levine sets out for the island himself with his young guide Diego.

    Read More

  • Christian Apologetics: A Comparative Analysis

    592 Words  | 3 Pages

    J. Warner Wallace presented several questions concerning dinosaurs vs. creation that Christians have asked for years in attempts to reach the truth of the matter. “How do Christians

    Read More

  • Pigeon's Flight To Extinction

    909 Words  | 4 Pages

    Greenberg explained in the question period how he had always been drawn to birding, and his thoughts on the de-extinction progress and the viability that might be possible for the passenger penguin. He felt that some would find it inspiring or fearful. I agree that de-extinction could help open portals of learning for species that were never studied in life. At the same time, I found it surprising that it could be possible for the passenger pigeon, were that to happen, could be the only species to go extinct twice. Greenberg’s film demonstrated how even an extinct bird can hold many lessons for how one thinks about

    Read More

  • Bad Consequences In Frankenstein

    449 Words  | 2 Pages

    This is a similar problem in Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs resemble the creature in Frankenstein. In the movie, the owner of the park creates dinosaurs by using a method that had not been fully researched. After many scientists telling him that

    Read More

More about Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park

Open Document