Hot Zone Essay Research Paper Summary Jurassic

Hot Zone Essay, Research Paper

Summary: Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is divided into seven sections, each with a quote from

Ian Malcolm. He was a mathematician who specialized in the field called

chaos theory, which based itself mainly on nonlinear equations. The first

section follows the paths of several scenes, where in each one, there is

evidence pointing to the appearance of dinosaurs. One of these scenes

included in the very beginning, where a man was flown in to a doctor with

mortal wounds surrounding his body. One of his last words was “raptor”,

which meant “bird of prey.” Another was when a young girl was bit by a so

called lizard, but the lizard fit closely to the description of a dinosaur.

The second section ties in with the first one, but now the reader is

presented with scientific evidence of living dinosaurs. Here the reader is

given a little insight of the background to the situation, as Bob Morris,

part of the EPA, reveals information that InGen had three Cray XMP’s

shipped to Costa Rica, which were very powerful supercomputers, and 24

Hoods, which were automated gene sequencers. Later on, the carcass of a

dinosaur, which was found near the sight where the young girl was bit, was

sent to a lab to be examined, and it was identified as a Procompsognathus,

thought to be extinct for millions of years. The scientists who witnessed

the evidence, Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, both foremost in the fields of

paleontology, were soon requested to fly down to a private island off of

Costa Rica by John Hammond, founder of InGen. A little later on in the

second section, the story unfolds somewhat, when the scene shifts to a

meeting of the Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino, where they explain that

InGen was cloning dinosaurs. The Biosyn company then hires Lewis Dodgson,

an scientists who worked at InGen, to help them steal dinosaur embryo’s for

them. He starts off toward Costa Rica as Ellie and Grant arrive in Jurassic

Park, and get their first glimpses of the dinosaurs.

The third section begins with Ellie and Grant about to tour the park.

They are joined by two children, the grandchildren of Hammond, Tim and Lex

Murphy. Tim was only eleven but he knew a lot about dinosaurs because he

was very interested in them. The small group is first taken on a tour

through the main building of the park by Mr. Regis, head of Public

Relations. Here is when Regis explains the process in which the dinosaurs

where able to be cloned. He explained that to obtain full strands of

dinosaur DNA, they extracted the blood from ancient insects, hoping to find

biting insects which still had dinosaur DNA within them. Regis then takes

them to a room where the Cray super computers are busily working, repairing

broken DNA segments. Then they arrive in the fertilization room, and then

the hatchery. Later, they are taken to the control room, where almost all

the park functions could be maintained. The main computer sustained

accurate numbers and locations of all the dinosaurs in the park, motion

detectors where set up throughout the park, and video cameras. So it was

virtually a foolproof system. After leaving the control room, the visitors

climb aboard Toyota Land Cruisers, which acted as the mode of

transportation throughout the park. They move along the park, looking at

Dilophosaurus, Triceratops, and the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Everything was going all as planned, but as Ian Malcolm had predicted,

things started to go wrong. First, back at control, they did scans around

the park and found out that the dinosaurs were breeding, something they

were genetically not able to do. Next, Alan, and the kids saw that a group

of raptors, fierce predators, were about to board a ship headed toward the

mainland. But at that exact time it began to rain and Dennis Nedry, hired

by Lewis Dodgson to steal the embryo’s, shut down the main power to the

main computer. This started a chain reaction that escalated to the

destruction of the entire park.

And so begins the fourth section of the novel. When Nedry had shut off

the main computer, all the electricity in the park went down as well. This

was bad timing, because Alan, and the kids were trapped in the Land

Cruisers right next to the T-Rex pin. And because the electricity was out,

the fences all around the park were not electric, which allowed the animals

to get free. And this meant bad news for Alan and the group since they knew

that the Tyrannasaurus could get out at any time. Soon enough, it got out

of the pin and knocked over both of the Land Cruisers, injuring everyone

but luckily it didn’t kill anyone. Back at control, Dr. Wu, head of

genetics, was trying to start the main computer back up again, but was

unable to crack the code that Nedry had put in. In the forest, Alan was

fortunate to find Lex and Tim, and they dis

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