Chapter 1 Almost Paradise pages 11-15
Characters
Mike Bowman: a 36 year old real estate developer from Dallas, came to Costa Rica with his wife and daughter for a 2 week vacation. He is very loving and supportive of the two of them.
Ellen Bowman: Mike's wife, a very beautiful woman and former Homecoming Queen, very concerned about her looks, came to Costa Rica for plastic surgery. She's very cautious.
Christina (Tina) Bowman: Mike and Ellen's daughter, 8 years old. She is very curious as she looks for new animals for her list. She got attacked by a 'lizard' (dinosaur). |
Summary
The Bowmans go on a vacation to Costa Rica, which Ellen had originally planned because she wanted plastic surgery. They end up going to an island and it is almost completely deserted. In her search for new animals, especially a three-toed sloth, Tina walks down the beach alone and finds bird tracks, along with similar tracks that are a bit larger. A green and brown lizard comes out of hiding to take a look at her and attacks. |
Chapter 2 Puntarenas pages 15-20
Characters
Mike: He found Tina and drove her to the hospital. He is very scared and concerned.
Ellen: She came with to the hospital. She is confused about the situation.
Tina: She had swelling and bites from the lizard. She was very observant and she remembered everything about it, drawing a picture and describing it to the doctors.
Dr. Cruz: He was a doctor who cared for Tina at the Clinica Santa Maria. He spoke perfect English and was confident in his work.
Dr. Marty Guitierrez: He was an American field biologist from Yale working in Costa Rica. He was very opinionated and was confused when Tina's information conflicted with his theory of her attacker. |
Summary
Mike hears Tina's screaming and found her with a bloody, swelling arm and small bites covered in sticky saliva. He rushes her to the nearest hospital where Dr. Cruz works on her. Dr. Cruz can't identify the lizard from their descriptions and her picture, but Dr. Guitierrez recognizes it as a basilisk lizard. Tina heals and the saliva from her arm is tested. She is questioned one last time before leaving and Dr. Guitierrez is no longer sure that it was a basilisk lizard. |
Chapter 3 The Beach pages 20-22
Characters
Guitierrez: He went searching through the forest to find one of the described lizards. He was confused and determined to find out what the species was and test it. |
Summary
Guiterrez asks other doctors about lizard attacks and hears about several cases involving similar attacks with similarly described lizards. He thinks it could be a new species and goes to the jungle to find a specimen to be tested for diseases. He finds one that was being chewed on by a monkey and retrieves it. He decides to send it to Dr. Simpson, the world's leading authority on lizard taxonomy. |
Chapter 4 New York pages 23-26
Characters
Dr. Richard Stone: the head of the Tropical Disease Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center, tested the lizard specimen
Technician: helps Dr. Stone
Elena Morales: midwife of a newborn child
Infant: eaten by several lizards |
Summary
Dr. Stone receives the lizard specimen when Simpson is on a trip. He confirms that the specimen is a basilisk lizard and doesn't find any diseases. He sends Guiterrez a fax about it. Elena hears screeching in the baby's room. She thinks there are just birds in the room, but when she goes in, the child was being eaten by lizards. She chooses not to say anything about it to anyone. |
Chapter 5 The Shape of the Data pages 26-28
Characters
Dr. Stone: He is very narrow minded and realistic. He doesn't believe the animal in the picture is anything but a lizard. He is irritated with Alice.
Alice Levin: a mother of two boys, she knows a lot about dinosaurs and thinks that that is what the picture is of |
Summary
Dr. Stone walks around with the picture and Alice thinks that it is a dinosaur. Dr. Stone wants nothing to do with the idea. |
Chapter 1 The Shore of the Inland Sea pages 31-42
Characters
Dr. Alan Grant: a paleontologist working with grants from Hammond, he is very patient and persistent with his work, he got really irritated with Hammond when he kept calling about baby dinosaurs
Ellie Sattler: a paleobotanist and Dr. Grant's assistant and student, she acts like one o the guys
Ed Morris: a messenger from the EPA, he is suspicious and worried about Hammond |
Summary
Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler are on a dig in the badlands and find a baby carnivore fossil. Morris comes as a representative of the Environmental Protection Agency. Morris is suspicious of Hammond and concerned about his purchases of amber, an island, and super computers. Gennaro, Hammond's associate, had paid Grant for information about baby dinosaurs until Grant cut the deal short. The EPA wanted to investigate Hammond and InGen because they didn't want another incident like Biosyn's, who had come with a vaccine for rabies and tested it in a potentially dangerous environment. |
Chapter 2 Skeleton pages 31-42
Characters
Dr.Grant: he is extremely shocked and confused about the procompsognathus x-ray, he is amused by Hammond, but is cautious when Hammond acts worried about the dinosaur, he is enthusiastic about his veloceraptor skeleton
Ellie: she is happy about the new raptor fossil, she is slightly critical and excited about the x-ray, she is also confused by Hammond
Hammond: the leader of InGen and the Hammond Foundation, he seems up tight and stressed because of the EPA, he is impatient to get Alan and Ellie to his island, he seems worried when Grant mentions the dinosaur specimen found, almost as if he has something to hide |
Summary
Grant finally identifies the new skeleton as a veloceraptor. Alice Levin sends them a fax of the x-ray of the lizard and Grant confirms it to be a procompsognathus. Hammond calls Grant, complains about the EPA, and offers to pay both Grant and Ellie $20,000 a day to visit his park. |
Chapter 3 Cown, Swain, and Ross pages 49-51
Characters
Daniel Ross: he works in a law office, he is suspicious of Hammond
Donald Gennaro: the general counsel for InGen, doesn't trust Hammond anymore, he wants others' opinions on the island's problems and he wants to cover up the procompsognathus and have it brought to the island |
Summary
Ross and Gennaro discuss the problems with Hammond's island. They think he is covering for problems, including the new 'lizard' found on a nearby island, by bringing visitors to make it seem safe. They are inviting consultants to the island for their opinions. Gennaro asks Dr. Grant to bring the procompsognathus with him to the island. |
Chapter 4 Plans pages 52-58
Characters
Grant: he isn't very interested in technology, he is concerned about the design of the island
Ellie: she is also confused by the blueprints and compares the island to a zoo |
Summary
Hammond sends Grant and Ellie plans about the island. They think he is paranoid. They are confused because it is large and open with electric fences like a giant zoo. The fossil is partially exposed, so Grant and Ellie protect it before leaving the site. |
Chapter 5 Hammond pages 58-62
Characters
Gennaro: he is dissapointed that he has to leave right before his daughter's birthday party, he is playing along with Hammond, but he doesn't think he is being let in on everything
Hammond: he is excited and has an almost childlike personality, he's an eccentric old man, he is very carefree ad thinks big |
Summary
Gennaro gets ready to leave for the island. Ross wants him to stop any problems if they occur, no matter what the cost. Hammond raised money for the park through Japnese investors and meetings using his miniture elephant as an example of his work and scientific advances. Hammond is being very evasive with Gennaro and won't give him strait answers or details about his plans. Hammond is extremely positive and excited about his island. He isn't concerned about any problems that apear to be arising. |
Chapter 6 Choteau pages 63-64
Characters
Grant: he is curious about the island, he doesn't like Gennaro
Ellie: she is offended by Gennaro and is sarcastic towards him
Gennaro: he sounds kind of stuck up, he was surprised that Dr. Sattler was a girl
Hammond: he is still enthusiastic and secretive about his island |
Summary
Hammond and Gennaro pick up Grant and Ellie in their jet. Hammond wants to keep everything a secret until the park opens. |
Chapter 7 Target of Oportunity pages 64-68
Characters
Lewis Dodgson: hired by Biosyn, he is a shady character that suggests they steal Ingen's dinosaur embryos and alter them slightly for their own use
10 Directors: irritable and impatient, they're waiting on Ron Meyer's arrival
Steingarten: head of Biosyn, he insisted on calling the meeting |
Summary
The board members at Biosyn call an emergency meeting. Dodgsonfinds out that InGen has found a way to clone dinosaurs and could make an enormous buisiness of it. They decide they must collect their own samples to modify and use. |
Chapter 8 Airport pages 69-71
Characters
Lewis Dodgson: he's skilled at finding disgruntled employees to do his bidding, but he's irritated with the one he's working with in this chapter
The man/ disgruntled employee: has access to the embryos and is willing to steal some for $1,500,000 |
Summary
Dodgson meets his contact from InGen at the airport and offers him 1 and a half million dollars to bring back embryos. He gives him a modifies shaving cream can to put them in that has a coolant. |
Chapter 9 Malcolm pages 71-76
Characters
Malcolm: intelligent famous new generation mathematition, rather amused by the trip, voiced many opinions (including his views on fashion and sports), he has the idea that Jurassic Park will fail because of the chaos theory and thinks it was a dumb idea
Grant: recognized Ian Malcolm
Gennaro: frustrated w/ Malcolm's theory of Jurassic Park's failure, thinks it's over thought and too complicated |
Summary
Ian Malcolm, a mathematician, meets the others at the airport. His predictions based on the Chaos Theory point to total failure and destruction of the island. |
Chapter 10 Isla Nublar pages 76-79
Characters
Dennis Nedry: fat, sloppy, disgusting man that didn't offer to shake hands, does talk much
Pilot: pointed out a few locations and safely landed the helicopter in the park
Malcolm
Hammond
Grant
Regis: cheerful, meets them when they get to the island |
Summary
Dennis Nedry, the sloppy computer consultant, joins them on the final part of their trip to the island. They have a smooth descent despite the rugged terrain and Ed Regis comes out to meet them. Grant gets out and realizes he is seeing dinosaurs. |
Chapter 11 Welcome pages 79-80
Characters
Ellie: surprised by the beautiful dinosaurs, marveled at them
Gennaro: shocked by the island, happy because of the tons of money that they could make, he really hoped it was a safe place
Grant: already began to accept the dinosaurs, and laughed! :)
Malcolm: ever the logical one, he asked a few blunt questions
Hammond: tells them of their scheduled tour
Regis: lead the group toward the building |
Summary
Everyone is astonished and delighted with the amazing creatures Grant identifies as apotosaurs. They follow Rigis into Jurassic Park to begin their tour. |
Chapter 1 Jurassic Park pages 83-87
Characters
Ellie: skeptical as to how they could be real dinosaurs if their was no real dinosaur DNA left, notices changes in the plans for the resort... bars over windows, etc.
Grant: excited to finally discover whether they were warm- or cold-blooded, he also noticed the changes...
Malcolm: points out that Jurrasic Park changes Grant's field of work a bit
Ed Regis: gave a quick tour (nothing really special, just pointed out the obvious things) |
Summary
Dr. Grant realizes that the field of the study of dinosaurs will be changed forever. Palientology will no longer be needed. Grant and Ellie are confused as to how they got the DNA. Ellie notices that the plants weren't chosen very carefully and there are sveral poisonous ones. In the room, the two of them find many changes in the plans like iron bars on the skylights that look like they were added in a hurry. |
Chapter 2 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth pages 87-92
Characters
Gennaro: states the facts as he sees them and reminds them of why they're really there - to determine whether Jurassic Park is safe
Malcolm: explained his theory... AGAIN!
Hammond: angry that they don't believe in his park; he uses a few bad words to express his discontent
2 kids: Hammond's grandchildren; Boy is eleven bispecticled; girl is seven or eight with blond hair a baseball cap and a baseball glove over her shoulder; parents are getting a divorce. |
Summary
Everyone meets in the visitor building before they begin their tour of the facilities. Gennaro asks them to asses the island as they go and decide if it is safe enough. They discuss the issue of the lizard attacks. Malcolm insists that some of them most likely got off the island. He knows nature cant be controlled like they are trying to. Gennaro becomes furious with Hammond when a helicopter arrives, bringing Hammond's grandchildren to the island.
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Chapter 3 The Tour pages 92-110
Characters
Tim Murphy: grandson of Hammond felt awkward that adults were arguing; felt the tension.
Lex: the same
Ed Regis: tour guide that was mad and felt degraded about having to babysit the grandkids
Grant: liked that Tim knew him and asked a few questions about him
Robert Muldoon
John Arnold
Henry Wu: slender man in his 30's; chief geneticist; know it all that explains how they extract the DNA and use it to make the baby dinosaur
Dennis Nedry: yawned; bored with the park
Ellie: losing interest
Baby velociraptor: felt uncomfortable when Grant "inspected" her |
Summary
Regis introduces Tim and Lex to the group. Tim recognizes Grant as the author of one of his favorite books, Lost World of the Dinosaurs. They head to the visitor center and Grant talks to him about his family and his interest in dinosaurs. Regis is angry about having to be the babysitter and the tourguide. He leads them to the control room where the meet John Arnold, the chief engineer, and Robert Muldoon, the park warden. He than leads them to the lab where Henry Wu, the chief geneticist explains how they got the DNA from blood preserved inside mosquitoes trapped in amber. Wu shows them a fragment of the DNA on the computer. Members of the group begin to get bored as they go. They are led throught the fertilization room and then into the hatchery and nursery. Wu explains how the plastic eggs work and they see a baby veloceraptor that Tim plays with. Wu tells them that the dinosaurs can't breed outside that area because they have all been made female in the hatching process. |
Chapter 4 Control pages 111-120
Characters
Malcolm: contrantly explaining why it won't work
Wu: explains how they clone the dino DNA
Grant: still kinda awed at actually seeing the dinos he's been studying for years
Regis: ticked that Malcolm keeps trying to explain why Jurassic Park won't work
Ellie: surprised at how fast the raptors are
Tim |
Summary
Wu mentions that they have made 15 species, including many of the compys like the specimen found on land. They are good for getting rid of the waste on the island that builds up. He insists that they couldn't be the same thing that attacked the girl on the beach because the dinosaurs have all been engineered to depend on a special nutrient, lysine, which they can only be provided with on the island. Otherwise, they would die within 12 hours. Tim, Malcolm, Grant, and Ellie go to see the veloceraptor pen and are 'hunted' by three raptors that are shocked by the fence while trying to attack. Grant marvels at their speed and coordination.
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Chapter 5 Version 4.4 pages 120-125
Characters
Hammond: refuses to change the dinosaurs; too headstrong and thinks it's wrong
Wu: practical, worked for Hammond his entire professional career. He wants Hammond to breed the dinosaurs so they're easier to handle |
Summary
Wu tells Hammond that he wants to replace the current stock of animals with new slower and domesticated dinosaurs. These would be more like what the public expects and would be easier to handle. Hammond dismisses the idea. Wu remembers when he got his job from Hammond coming out of college and realizes he is no longer really needed in Hammond’s plans. |
Chapter 6 Control pages 126-133
Characters
Grant: doesn't like computers
Arnold: computer whiz; shows them the control mechanisms
Gennaro
Malcolm: makes a disturbing discovery but doesn't share it; he chooses to let them see for themselves
Nedry |
Summary
The group finally goes to the control room and Arnold explains the control mechanisms and security systems with input from Muldoon. He shows them how the motion sensors work to count all of the animals and position them on a map. There are several different versions of species, almost like software. They also have ID images every five minutes to verify that the dinosaurs are all being counted correctly. The computer system is independent and completely secure. Most of the group is convinced it is safe. Malcolm, however, is still convinced that some of the dinosaurs have gotten through the system. |
Chapter 7 The Tour pages 134-137
Characters
Regis
Gennaro: explodes at Malcolm
Tim
Malcolm
Grant: doesn't like the idea of rides
Ellie Sattler
Lex |
Summary
The group gets seated in two electric cars as the tour gets underway. Some of the small dinosaurs aren't visible, but they see some hypsiophodonts and some othnielia as they move on to the larger dinosaurs. |
Chapter 8 Control pages 138-143
Characters
Arnold: checked on Nedry over his own monitor; worked with theme park so often he sometimes believe the world was a theme park
Hammond: as headstrong as ever; refuses to listen to suggestions; aggravating old man insists that everything on his island is functioning properly
Muldoon: gloomy- believes that the park is a potentially hazardous place and should be shut down
Nedry: aggravated that it's going to take so long to fix
Lex: bored with the dumb dinosaurs and wanted something exciting
Regis: acting as fake as ever...
Tim: excited to see the dinosaurs he knew so much about (kind of like Grant) |
Summary
Back in the control room, Arnold oversees the tour and is nervous about the details because it is the first real tour of the park. He tells Hammand about potential problems, but Hammond will not hear it. On the tour, the group sees a poisonous dilophosaur and passes two triceratops. |
Chapter 9 Big Rex pages 144-149
Characters
Grant: unimpressed
Regis:
Malcolm: awed by the enormity of the T-Rex
Hammond:excited to see their reactions to the dinos
Muldoon: nervous about the tour by the tyranosaur area (wanted BIG guns) |
Summary
The group arives at the T-rex pen, but neither the adult or the juvenile, who usually hides most of the day anyway, are out. Back in the control room, Hammond is anxious as he waits for his guests' reaction to the T-rex and Muldoon is worried because of the surprises they had with the other dinos. On the tour, a goat is raised into the paddock and an adult T-rex as big as a house comes out to eat it before dragging it away and frightening the majority of the group.
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Chapter 10 Control pages 144-149
Characters
Ellie: diagnosing the stegosaurus and trying to help
Regis
Malcolm: uses the sick dino as an example to support his theory
Grant: found gizzard stones and velociraptor egg shells
Lex
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Summary
Hammond is worried about people like Malcolm wanting to shut down his park. Muldoon gets out some rocket launchers and ammo to put in the jeeps in case of emergency. The tour leads on to the swamp where the group sees a patosaurs and Tim spots a raptor, though Regis insists he couldn't have. A storm sets in and the cargo ship asks permission to leave before they are smashed against the docks.
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Chapter 11 Stegosaur pages 154-160
Characters:
Ellie: diagnosed the sick Stegosaur and found gizzard stones and poisonous berries.Grant: found Velociraptor eggs Malcolm:
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Summary
The land cruisers come a stop at the stegosaurus area and everyone goes out to see Dr. Harding, the vet, and the sick stegosaur. The stegosaurs usually get sick in that area evey six weeks. Ellie deduces that they have gizzard stones to help with digestion. They replace the stones every six weeks, and swallow poisonous West INdian Lilac berries giving them the symprtoms. Grant finds a piece of an egg shell that he recognises as a velociraptor egg.
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Chapter 12 Control pages 160-166
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Summary
To prove that the dinosaurs aren't breeding, Hammond and Arnold scan the island and the expected number of dinos came up. Malcolm asks Arnold to make it expect more animals and Arnold ralizes his point as the numbers climb. The sensors stopped counting because there were only thought to be 238, but when it was expected to keep counting; it did, revealing that there were extras of several species. The graphs of heights also pointo to breeding.
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Chapter 13 Breeding Sites pages 167-177
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Summary
The eggs that should have hatched, but didn't and the absence of rodents could have been connected to new raptors. They would have eaten eggs and rats. Grant suspects that possible frog DNA blended with the dinosaurs' could be a reason for their breeding. The group leaves the stegosaur, but Gennaro and Ellie stay with Dr. Hrding. The cars come to a stop and the radios no longer work. Lex spots the boat and sees something on it. There are at least two juvenile raptors on the back of it and the boat is heading towards the mainland with them. Nedry disabled all of the phones and there are only 18 hours to contact the boat. Then, the power for everything outside of the buildings goes out. Nedry sneaks into the freezers and collects samples of the embryos. He escapes in one of the jeeps. Muldoon and Arnold alert security to try to find Nedry. Muldoon wants to check the fences, but his jeep is missing. |
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