The Lost World: Summary
I read Michael Crichton's The Lost World. In the following paragraphs, I will
not only explain the book, but also give my critique of it. I will also give a
paragraph that was probably the best paragraph in the book, in my opinion.
The book starts out with Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who had already had an
experience with live dinosaurs a couple of years ago on another island. He has
pretty much blocked that experience from his mind. Anyway, it also talks about
a man named Doctor Levine. This man talks at a lecture that Malcolm is watching
about the theory of there being a lost world, an island, undiscovered, that has
extinct animals on it, particularly dinosaurs. Malcolm dismisses ...
Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers
|
on a field trip with him
that day. They go to a guy named Doctor Thorne, a guy that was making
specialized equipment for their trip. He said that he didn't know what was
going on. They contact Malcolm and they go to Levine's apartment. They go to
his computer room and see all this stuff on the wall about site B. They go onto
the computer and Arby gets all this stuff about site B on it. Malcolm then
finds out that the island that Levine went to was Isla Sorna. They plan this
whole trip to go there, just Malcolm, Thorne, and Thorne's assistant, Eddie.
They also call a woman named Sarah Harding, a scientist in Africa, to come with
them. She had to take a flight in a while, she was too far to just go with them.
They told the kids that they couldn't go. They leave for a helicopter with a
specialized explorer, and two trailers, with a lot of equipment. On the way
there, Thorne gets a call from Arby saying good luck. They get to the island
and search for Levine, with this device ...
Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.
Already a member? Login
|
a
hurt baby T-Rex. Levine tells him to shoot it, but instead, Eddie brings it
back to the trailer. Ian and Sarah try to heal it while everyone else goes back
to the high hide. While they are mending it's broken arm, the parents come back
for it. They keep bashing the trailer until they figure out what they are after,
the baby. They give back the baby, and the dinosaurs seem to stop the beating
of the trailer. They bring the baby a little bit into the woods, and they then
come back to beat the trailer again. They hit it closer and closer to the cliff,
until half of it is hanging off the cliff, only being held by the connector.
They realize that they have to get to the top part of ...
Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library.
Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports,
and research papers in 2 minutes or less.
|
CITE THIS PAGE:
The Lost World: Summary. (2006, August 28). Retrieved April 27, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/The-Lost-World-Summary/51483
"The Lost World: Summary." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 28 Aug. 2006. Web. 27 Apr. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/The-Lost-World-Summary/51483>
"The Lost World: Summary." Essayworld.com. August 28, 2006. Accessed April 27, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/The-Lost-World-Summary/51483.
"The Lost World: Summary." Essayworld.com. August 28, 2006. Accessed April 27, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/The-Lost-World-Summary/51483.
|
Save
Report