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The Plot Of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park

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Michael Crichton gets the plot in Jurassic park moving quickly very early in the story. Crichton doesn’t try to hide the fact that John Hammond’s Jurassic Park is going to, and is already failing. The setting of the first chapter is a dark stormy night in Costa Rica and a helicopter braves this storm to bring a dying patient from a nearby island; the island owned by John Hammond. A man tells the doctor that the patient is a victim of a construction accident, and that he has been run over by a backhoe. With all the doctor’s experience she knows that that this is not the truth. The patient has the telltale signs of being attacked by a large animal, but he goes into convulsions, screams “Raptor, lo sa Raptor!” and then dies before he can give

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