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The Theme Of All Odds By Michael Crichton

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Michael Crichton is well known for his work, and how he relates even the strangest sci-fi stories to themes we can connect to real life ideas. These ideas not only make us think, but they also make us more self-aware. His writing makes us cogitate our own beliefs and possibly open our minds. In this particular novel, Michael Crichton gives us hope for the characters in this particular story by having said characters’ tackle one impossible obstruction after another. This builds on to what I believe to be the theme; it is possible to survive all odds.

This theme was alluded when the main character, Norman, had to swim to the other part of the ship after the oxygen was cut off and he saw no way to get out. Norman had a flashback to when his

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