Lead and Persist
This is a short chapter where Crichton puts us in the shoes of those who have been sabotaged, but don t yet know the situation they are in. The reader is ahead of the characters. Crichton has built tension by revealing Continue reading
At 104 pages, Fourth Iteration is the second longest section to the 111 pages of Third Iteration , and The Main Road is the longest chapter at 12 pages it is also past the halfway point, as there are Continue reading
This chapter, the final part of third iteration really kicks off the action. The kids see velociraptors on the boat heading to the mainland. Nedry steals the dinosaur embryos, releasing a computer virus to cover his tracks. The virus shuts Continue reading
Crichton has confidence in the technical literacy of his reader as shown by the eleven tables / exhibits he uses in this chapter alone. These are data tables made to look as if they were cut-copy-pasted straight from an Continue reading
The Jurassic Park film has no stegosaur instead the sick animal is played by a young triceratops. Stegosaurs do make an appearance in The Lost World movie. Here the ailing stegosaur gives us another glimpse at Hammond s over confidence, Continue reading
This is the fifth of twelve times that Crichton will use the word Control to introduce the chapter. He doesn t list formal chapter titles in the original book, although they are referenced as such in the 2026 Amazon Kindle version. Continue reading
The words Tyrannosaurus [14] and Rex [49] are found for a total of 63 times in the book, and this is the first of only two times it is mentioned in a chapter title. The second comes later in Chapter Continue reading
Chapter 24 is the third of eleven chapters which are titled Control for the control room within Jurassic Park, and for the illusion of control which we see stripped away over the course of the book. Best Writing, Quotes Continue reading
Chapter 23 has many tie-ins, perhaps as Crichton continues to follow the use of the Famous, Famous, Fictional trope to make the world real for the reader. We find electric Toyota Land Cruisers specially made for the park and those still Continue reading
My daughter, Lillian Lybrand, is class of 2027 at New Hampton School. Because New Hampton does not have a volleyball program and we live in Meredith, NH, she is eligible to play for the Inter-Lakes High School Laker volleyball program. Continue reading