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How Does Michael Crichton Create Suspense In Jurassic Park
The novel Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton focused mostly on the way the author wrote the story. The author wrote part of the story in the future and then in present tense. This gave the readers more suspense because they did not know what was going to happen next, and because they knew part of the future. For an example at the beginning of the story the author wrote about dinosaurs attack on the mainland. Later in the story they revealed how the dinosaurs got on land. The author chose to write this way because he wanted to give the readers background information about what he was going to write about. This is so he could create a suspense about the story and to keep us guessing what was going to happen next. The book is written from

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