ASSERTION WITH EVIDENCE ESSAY OF JURASSIC PARK
Hammond would have succeeded in the planning of his park if he and his team hadn’t been so overwhelmed with greed and power. Since he would be the first to open a park of this type, he would be able to charge what ever he wanted. Was he just out for the money or did he just want people to learn about his discoveries of being able to clone prehistoric dinosaurs? One of errors that caused the park to fail was the fact that Hammond and the other
designers of the park didn’t think about the unpredictability of nature itself.
Jurassic Park was to be like some sort of resort or theme park. The discrepancy was that, Hammond wanted the park to be natural. He wanted
everyone to feel like they had stepped back in time.
Everywhere, extensive and elaborate planting emphasized the feeling that
They were entering a new world, and leaving the normal world behind. (83)
The entire island was designed with wildlife. The only problem is that Hammond and the other creators of the island didn’t think about the effects of introducing extinct plants and animals into today’s world. The designers never considered what they were planting in the park. The tiny aspects that they failed to see contributed to the failure of the park. Ellie Sattler reveals one of the problems at the Park:
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But whoever had decided to place this particular fern at poolside obviously didn’t know that the spores of veriformans contained a deadly beta-Carboline alkaloid. Even touching the attractive green fronds could make you sick, and if a child were to take a mouthful, he would almost certainly
Die—the toxin was fifty times more poisonous than oleander. (85)
Just as important as the tiny details of the park that were overlooked, if not more important, was the technical failures associated with human stupidity. When the park was designed, the humans controlling this aspect of the Park obviously didn’t consider that there could be problems in the system.
Gennaro questions Arnold about the security of the control system, and Arnold insists it is secure. Gennaro is convinced that everything is safe, but Malcolm insists that he knows for certain that animals have escaped.
Does the computer ever make a mistake? Only with the babies. It mixes those up sometimes, because they’re such small images. But we don’t sweat that. The babies almost always stay close to herds of adults. (127)
The park was thought be designed perfectly. The land was set up to control and maintain these animals while the computer system that ran the entire park was the “best” one ever. The designers were so sure about the perfection of the computer system and the park layout that they completely
overlooked the technical flaws that seemed to be completely obvious on the surface. The motion sensors that were supposed to track all the animals in the park of course could only work if they were moving, and they didn’t cover the
entire park.
“They cover ninety-two percent of the land area.” Arnold said. “There are only a few places we can’t use them. For example, we can’t use them on the jungle river, because the movement of the water and the convection rising from the surface screws up the sensors. But we have them nearly everywhere else. And if the computer tracks an animal into an uncensored zone, it’ll remember, and look for the animal to come out again. And if it doesn’t, it gives us an alarm.” (129)
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They thought that the animals would be stupid and didn’t think about how this flaw in the system could possibly affect the park.
The most serious flaw in the park, was how Hammond and the other designers didn’t even consider the unpredictability of nature and of life itself.
Arnold tries to explain that Malcolm’s Chaos Theory and the Malcolm effect wouldn’t apply to the park because it was a life system and not a model on a
computer. The very thing he was arguing to contradict the Chaos Theory is evidence to support it. The fact that Jurassic Park was a life system would automatically apply the Chaos Theory. The breeding of the dinosaurs is an example of how Hammond overlooked what nature really was. Dr. Wu believed he had manipulated the DNA of the dinosaurs enough to the point that they couldn’t breed at all. The one thing he didn’t think about was that nature always finds a way.
The result was clear: all breeding dinosaurs incorporated rana, or frog DNA. None of the other animals did. Wu still did not understand why this had caused them to breed. But he could no longer deny that Grant was right. The dinosaurs were breeding. (210)
In the novel, surely it was an attempt of greed and being in control when his greed gets in the way of his judgment when the park starts to malfunction and several people on the island want to shut it down.
Hammond thought he could put his trust in his team of scientists with the planning of his theme park. However, they soon realize that it was Dennis Nedry had taken a bribe to steal some embryos which ultimately lead to the failure of Jurassic Park.
In today’s world of fast paced technology and science the possibility of this happening probably could be seen in the future. Could dinosaurs live in today’s world? Even if they did, they would not be able to live in the current conditions because the climate and the wildlife was much different in prehistoric times.
Works Cited
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York. 1990
