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John Hammond's Jurassic Park
Even though the book Jurassic Park is not intended to be a “coming of age” novel I think there are still many events in the book where the characters face a problem, that ultimately ends in serious consequence or a new perspective on things, which causes them to be changed in some way. The overall setting of the book takes place on the fictional Costa Rican island, Isla Nublar, where for the past 2 decades, John Hammond, millionaire and businessman extraordinaire, and his first-rate scientists have been breaking through barriers of bioengineering to recreate the monsters that roamed the Earth 228 million years ago. After putting the animals into a family friendly attraction called “Jurassic Park”, Hammond invites several people to come …show more content…
Because the mosquito was preserved in tree sap, they are able to get a genetic code. To take the code and make a dinosaur out of it they run the codes through supercomputers filling in the breaks in the code with frog DNA. Because the codes were run through the computers, the people at jurassic park weren't fully aware of what was really going on in the labs, causing severe problems in the system. From the beginning to the end of the book John Hammond is intentionally oblivious the dangers at the park. To him, whether or not the reanimation of dinosaurs is ethical or smart doesn’t matter to him as long as his lifelong dream to make dinosaurs walk to Earth again is accomplished. Hammond is also keen to the idea of having minimal staff, and to have the park ran mostly through supercomputers, unaware of the glitches in the systems that will later cause disastrous results to the park. Unlike Hammond, Ian Malcolm is positive the park will fail, ending with serious consequences, or so says the “chaos theory” that he specializes in. After a technical sabotage caused by Dennis Nedry, in his attempt to steal dinosaur embryos, the whole park starts to go downhill from there, following exactly along with Ian’s

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