Characters
Paleontologist with an interest in raptors
Alan Grant
This person dies first in the park
Dennis Nedry
"You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct"
Just because you can doesn't mean you should
"Her whole left arm was bloody"
Visual Imagery
American traveling physician in Costa Rica
Bobbie Carter
Lawyer from Cowain Swain and Ross
Gennaro
Why are the omnivores and herbivores getting sick?
Poisonous flora that look pretty
"At that time, direct revenues will exceed ten billion dollars a year"
Greed
"There was a squeal of metal against teeth"
Auditory imagery
Costa Rican doctor who looks into the lizard bite
Dr. Gutierrez
Game warden from Nairobi
Robert Muldoon
Who do they forcibly send into the raptor's nest?
Gennaro
"It's playing with him, Grant thought."
"Nedry unzipped his shoulder bag and removed the can of Gillette shaving cream."
Kinesthetic Imagery
Professor of Zoology at Columbia
Edward H. Simpson
Works for BioSyn and with Nedry
Lewis Dodgson
Which two of Hammond's workers die to raptors in quick succession? How
John Arnold attacked in the control quarters underground trying to get power back, Henry Wu jumped by raptors and gutted
"I ordered three larger weapons, Mr Hammond, but you cut the requisition, so we only got one. And it's gone. Nedry took it when he left"
(Two themes)
Greed and Technological failure
"the transmitter lights blinked and the CD-ROM whirred"
Visual and Auditory
Woman who was babysitting the baby who died by compy attack
Elena Morales
Hammond's partner
Norman Atherton
The scientists think that Tina was bitten by this type of lizard
Basilisk lizard
"They ate him," Lex said
(Three themes)
You can't control nature, just because you can doesn't mean you should, chaos
"He could feel his knees begin to shake uncontrollably, his trousers flapping like flags. Jesus he was frightened. He didn't want to be here."
Kinesthetic Imagery and Organic Imagery
First identified the "lizard" as a dinosaur
Alice Levin