Jurassic Park Essay, Research Paper

A stormy night, off the coast of Costa Rica, a young man is admitted into a hospitalwith a wound caused by a small, reptilian animal. He is diagnosed with severe nausea andsome sort of blood poisoning. The man dies leaving the doctors with a problem of decipheringthe origin of the disease and what it is. On the same island, approximately 20 miles north, afamily is taking a vacation from their normal life in the city. Among these people, is a younggirl with a knack for drawing and curiosity for animal life. This young girl believes that herfamily will spot a sloth, which is the only mammal left on her list of animals to see. As shewanders off she stumbles upon a small lizard that she?s never seen before and begins sketchingthe creature. The small animal seems to feel threatened so it attacks the girl in defense. Thegirl gets taken to a hospital for many of the same symptoms the young man was facing. AllenGrant, a paleontologist, with his girlfriend Elly Sadler, is on the verge of discovering the mostintact fossil of his favorite dinosaur, the velociraptor. When the two decide to startcelebrating, they are visited by a very intelligent scientist, John Hammond. Hammond bringsalong a proposal that the two come with him to his special new park for an evaluation period.Of course, the two accept and board his helicopter, where there are two others waiting: IanMalcolm, a scientist of chaos theory, and one of Hammond?s lawyers. The helicopter escortsthe crew to the small island, privately owned by Hammond, and upon landing Sadler discoversa plant species that has been extinct for millions of years. Their amazement is doubled whenthe jeep they are driving in is greeted by a friendly brachiosaurus: a dinosaur. ?Welcome toJurassic Park,? Hammond proposes as everyone faints from their astonishment. Upon theirarrival to the interpretive center, Hammond is greeted by his grandchildren, Tim and Lex- sentbecause of parental problems. To make the dinosaurs, Hammond has a crew of scientistexcavate fossilized amber with remains of prehistoric mosquitoes that have dino blood and usethat blood to get the ?building blocks of life, dino DNA.? With the mixture of the dino DNAand the DNA from frogs in Africa, the dinosaurs are made. Grant and crew take two little tourvans through the park, discovering the many dinosaurs that the park has to exhibit, includingthe dreaded T-Rex and velociraptors. Because the entire park is automated, except theexhibits, there are people to keep up with the running of all the electrical fences andvehicles-one of these people is Dennis Nedry. Nedry is hired to obtain several dinosaurembryos for a large corporation who would like these little gold mines. In order to maintainthis goal he has to shut down all of the parks power. In the mean time, because of the lack ofdinosaurs in the exhibits, Elly travels out of the vans and ventures down a path where lies asick triceratops. Elly stays behind with the vet and everyone else gets back into the vans.Back near the T-Rex exhibit, the power is shut off and Nedry breaks for the cold storage,leaving the tourists stranded near a highly dangerous animal who breaks from his enclosure andkills the lawyer, injurs Malcolm and strands Grant with Tim and Lex: in another area of thepark, Nedry takes his embryos to his jeep and heads for the docks, but looses control and getskilled by a dilophosaurus. Grant and kids make their way back to the interpretive center, anddiscover that the dinosaurs are breeding. Malcolm gets taken back with Sadler to Hammondwhere they turn the power back on and reunite with Grant, Tim and Lex. The group escapesthe island and plan to destroy it.