Through this report a discussion of the elements of The Lost World by Michael Crichton will be explored. A further
explanation of how these elements combine to create a good
or bad novel will be explored.
The Lost World takes place six years after the incident
on Isla Nublar, Costa Rica,(Jurassic Park)and only carries
one of the characters over to the sequel, which is Ian
Malcom.
InGen, the company which had been breeding live
dinosaurs had gone bankrupt immediately after the incident,
and disappeared, along with any evidence of them ever being
on Isla Nublar. All of the personnel involved with this
expedition were not answering any questions, or they had
mysteriously disappeared. Search parties had covered the
whole island, along with the surrounding islands, and found
nothing.
Aberrant forms of extremely large reptiles had been
washing up on the shores of various Costa Rican islands, and
word was getting out to the public, most of who became very
concerned about their health. The government would
incinerate them on the spot immediately so nobody knew if
they were really reptiles. Until Richard Levine got word of
one of them which they had not heard of yet. Being as
obsessed as he was he reached the site and collected a
sample of flesh just as the troops burnt the form to
ashes. Finding that it was most probable to assume the form
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was a species of dinosaur, he linked it to the InGen
corporation incident a few years ago. He had been awaiting
this moment for years, he was extremely well prepared; two
trailers incredibly strong, with many features required for
researching dinosaurs and their environment. But first he
had to find the only island with dinosaurs remaining: a lost
world. Collecting information, he discovered a Site B; the
alleged island to contain dinosaurs He first sets out
relying on his information which he collected various ways,
but only mildly prepared, with a backpack and a guide. Upon
arrival he is attacked and days later manages to contact his
team back in America.
The rest of Levine’s team, consisting of Ian Malcom,
Eddie Carr, Jack Thorne, Sarah Harding, Arby Benton, and
Kelly Curtis(Kelly and Arby hid aboard the trailers and went
along).
They received Levine’s distress signal and found his
notes and set off with all the equipment to rescue Levine.
Upon arrival they explored parts of the island and
found that it was the area which InGen went from the DNA to
the actual egg which contained the dinosaur, for there was
a massive factory which they briefly explored. They found
Levine who was healthy and set up various equipment to
observe the dino’s. Various events occur; the arrival of
Sarah Harding, and the human enemies who steal eggs and spur
the dinosaurs to attack everyone.
After numerous encounters with the dinosaurs, they
discover a boathouse with a working boat the plot goes from
them being in a certain death situation to the short
conclusion in a matter of pages.
The Lost World did not follow the traditional plot
structure for there were many other things involved.
Ian Malcom is forty years old and a mathematician. He
is the only character carried over from Jurassic Park. Due
to a serious injury in that novel he is impaired in
one leg and must walk with a cane. However the InGen company
paid for the expensive operations without which he would
have had surely lost his leg. He is tall thin and a balding
man with traces of black hair. He always wears black
clothing, including socks and sneakers. Malcom is a man of
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strong opinion, and he is always giving it to people whether
they are listening or not. He provides most of the technical
views the majority of which are used to provide some sense
on what a terrible place the world is, and there is nothing
anybody can do about it. He at first has great difficulty
confronting the dinosaurs due to past experiences, but soon
he faces his fear.
Richard Levine is very tall and thin. He had the title
of The Praying Mantis in high school partly due to his
appearance-and in part from his tendency to bite the head
off of anyone who disagreed with him. Levine wore wire-frame
spectacles and behind them were the famous sharp features of
his face. He was also famous for his photographic memory,
his arrogance, his sharp tongue, his determination and the
unconcealed pleasure he took in pointing out the errors of
his colleagues. Being a paleontologist which he enjoys
immensely, he was extremely stubborn in difficult times
which almost resulted in costing lives. Most people who
knew Richard Levine, detested him.
Doc Thorne was a grey-haired, barrel chested man of
fifty-five. Except for his wire-frame glasses, he looked as
if he might be a retired prizefighter. Once a professor
of applied engineering, and a specialist in exotic materials
he had always demonstrated a practical focus and a love of
teaching. However, colleagues who knew him agreed that
retirement had marked the happiest period in his life. Soon
after retirement he started him own company of building
almost anything the customer requested.
Kelly Curtis was in grade seven and 13 year old. She
was at the top of her class in marks and the bottom in
popularity. She had to wear all her sisters old clothes and
shoes which were usually bought at Kmart. She had to wash
and iron all her own clothes; her mother was never home ,
most of the time, and she envied Arby’s fortune at an easy
life. She is faced with being made fun of by her classmates
all the time, her only true friend is Arby Benton.
R.B. Benton (Arby) was a head shorter than Kelly; he
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was the shortest person in their class. He was also the
youngest, He was only eleven years old and in grade 7. He
had already been skipped ahead two grades, and there were
rumors he would be skipped again. Arby was a genius,
particularly with computers. He wore horn-rimmed glasses
which he constantly pushed up on his nose, and he usually
wore a white button-down shirt and neatly pressed Khakis.
Arby was black; both his parents were doctors in San Jose
and they always made sure he was dressed very neatly like he
was in college. Which was probably where he would be in a
couple of years by the way he was going. He and Kelly both
would run errands for Levine, and soon became attached to
him and Thorne. They ended up sneaking aboard in one of the
trailers to go along for the ride to Site B.
Sarah Harding was originally from Africa, and once had
a close relationship with Ian Malcom, but they went their
separate ways after his operations. She was compact, had a
muscular frame and had short black hair. Her field of
expertise was African predators, lions and hyenas. She
studied them for many years closely at night and monitored
their patterns for attacking, eating, sleeping etc. She soon
became famous for her work and was invited on a trip to a
Costa Rican island by Malcom.
The minor characters in The Lost World are very few,
due to the fact the most of the novel takes place on Site B.
They are Ed James, Jeff Rossiter and Lewis Dogdson. They
don’t play a very important part in the novel, except they
steal the eggs of certain dinosaurs, who in turn come
looking for them.
There are many themes incorporated into The Lost World
as viewed through the statements of Ian Malcom, there
are quotes from him at the beginning of every
“Configuration” (Major chapters) but the strongest of
theme portrayed in this novel is: “Nature will adapt, but
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if there are no older generations to show the offspring how
to hunt, act, and survive, Nature will follow a different
course, not that of its ancestors.”
The Lost World had many interesting chapters along with many extremely technical ones. As opposed to Jurassic Park,
the characters of The lost World were prepared for the
attack of dinosaurs, and it was not as unexpected, for the
characters knew not to get close to any of the dinosaurs, so
there was not much substance to the plot besides finding the
island that was Site B. When they were on the island, most
of the time was spent looking for a way to get to the
helicopter meeting point for all of the Jeeps were
destroyed. The setting and atmosphere was extremely well
done along with the character structure.
I found this novel to be a very well written sequel.
Almost all the aspects of the novel, aside from the lengthy
lectures, were excellently done, including the character
composition, the timing, and the setting and atmosphere.
Except however, for the conclusion, where the climax ended
abruptly in a matter of pages while I was expecting an
interesting solution for only that incident, they escape the
island entirely, not once looking back at what happened.
Malcom is lecturing as the are leaving, leaving you with
the impression that Crichton got fed up and finished it as fast as he could. I preferred Jurassic Park over The Lost World, but it was still a very good novel all in all.
