Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain And Jurassic Park

In this world what people often forget about that a human can do is cause mass destruction, things one should remember can be forgotten easily and just as fast as it came it leave, this can be seen in the books around us. Authors share their opinion through the words they write talking about society and how if we keep going the direction we are going we will find ourselves in deep trouble, the messages authors are trying to send can be seen through social commentary, many books have powerful messages behind them; especially in dystopian novels and movies. They show these messages through diction,syntax, imagery, and character development; for examples the books and movies; Fahrenheit 451, Incarceron, Wall-E, and Hunger games. The authors Ray Bradbury, Catherine Fisher, Andrew Stanton, and Suzanne Collins all convey a message through their works through syntax, diction, camera angles, and imagery; emphasizing their warnings of what they fear may happen.

Each of these aspects would influence his unsentimental outlook of the social, political, and governance issues that he would later inform people of in his most famous works (28). This viewpoint of his can clearly be seen in all his works.

Every text is a product of its time. In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, she uses the gothic horror genre to explore some of the concerns of her time relating to the use of science and technology and its impact on humanity. Similar concerns are also present in Ridley Scott’s “Bladerunner”, a futuristic text which combines science fiction and film noir to present a bleak view of a future world overrun by technology and consumerism, but devoid of human emotion. Both these texts offer insights into the human experience namely between man and science and man and nature.

Every man makes mistakes, that is part of being a human being, and we can use these mistakes to learn and adapt in the future. Some blunders however, are more dire than others. When a team of scientists working at a top secret installation, who just happen to be researching a deadly new virus that came from outer space make a mistake, it can end in tragedy very quickly. In Michael Crichton’s novel The Andromeda Strain, Crichton illustrates characterization by showing us how each scientist makes a mistake that, when added up, might have concluded with the death of everyone on the team. Crichton shows that when under extreme stress, man will make mistakes based on lack of self control, general ignorance, and personal ideals.

Virus of the Virus The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, involves the return of a government satellite to earth from space bearing a deadly organism that, with the exception of two people, wipes out an entire town in Arizona. Various agencies and individuals attempt to deal with the emergency. This novel deals with important themes of science, society, discovery and disaster. Crichton uses characterization for all of his different scientists to show that they all at one time or another struggle with the view of science and society. What science gives to society from time to time is downgrading due to the “Norm” that society views from scientific evidence that there are more to the world than just what the “Norm” is.

Dinosaurs ruled the earth for over 65 million years and thankfully for the human race, they became extinct. Ultimately, only a major catastrophe could completely wipe out an entire species, let alone an entity of dinosaurs and the debacle on the causes of dinosaur extinction have flooded the minds of paleontologists for centuries. Geologist and zoologist Stephen Jay Gould published “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs,” to compare scientific and speculative causes of dinosaur decimation. Personally, I found this passage very informational and enjoyed reading it. Gould provides three theories that capture the reader’s curiosity, allowing room for pondering in one’s mind.

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake characterizes the world after an uncontrolled experiment causing near total destruction of all human-kind. In the eyes of Snowman, also known as Jimmy, we witness his journeys back and forth between the reminiscences of the past and the present. The major calamities slowly make its transition as it all began in the hands of man who believed in the works of biotechnology, as a ground-breaking vitality to humanity, only to be destroyed by their own creations and conceptions. Similar to reality, biotechnology took off as it began cross-breeding and modifying produce the creators’ desired genetically-modified organisms, also known as GMOs. As how Atwood’s views the world pessimistically through the trials of error from genetic engineering, she warns us and abstracts the reasons that the pervasive usage of the sciences and technology to be a source to the downfall of humanity.

“Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” is written by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology and zoology at Harvard. This essay is one of more than a hundred articles on evolution, zoology, and paleontology published by Gould in national magazines and journals. It tells about scientific proposals for the extinction of dinosaurs – a confusing but an exciting problem that humanity tries to solve. By analyzing and describing each of the claims for the reptiles’ demise – sex, drugs, and disasters – Gould differentiates bad science from good science and explains what makes some theories silly speculations, while the other, a testable hypothesis.

Although Jurassic Park is one of the most iconic dinosaur movies of the twentieth century, the dinosaurs get a meager fifteen minutes of screen time. The main focus of Jurassic Park is the ethics of manipulating life and how much control humans should have over nature. Ian Malcolm remains a steadfast believer that tampering with the DNA of the dinosaurs should not be taken

His examples, greater understand the concept of sociobiology like when he stated that men are more likely to be criminals and develop mental illnesses than women. He makes a great point because most notorious criminals are men and have some sort of mental illness. However, I did not like the way said that women are considered as "sex goddesses", it makes it

Allan Grant, the main protagonist in the book, is hired by Hammond to prepare them for the dangerous life in Jurassic park. When the computer that controls the cloning of the dinosaurs crashes without anyone in the park knowing about it, the dinosaurs were accidently set free. Hammond then invites his family and friends to see what he has been building for many years. When the dinosaurs attacked them they were in shock because the lizards have previously killed the babies living in Costa Rica. When Grant finds out about this attack, he frantically heard about it and immediate runs and tries to help and save everyone. Grant is a scientist who knows everything there is to be known about the history of dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got loose when he starts to invest millions of dollars and many years into the project of cloning these manifested dinosaurs. His love of ancient creatures seems sincere to many people that met Hammond for the first time because he used his determination to turn his ideas to a major profit. He let greed take over life. Later in the book when Hammond claims to have created dinosaurs for children of the world but he states that only the rich could come to the park. All

    "The world was made for man to conquer and rule, and under human rule it was meant to become a paradise" (Ishmael 82). Much like this evolutionary mythological theory, the movie Jurassic Park tells a tale of man's attempt to rule over nature. Through the movie's description and imagery, the viewer perceives the arrogance of humans to control nature, and the consequences and failures of this flawed intention. John Hammond, park creator, uses state of the art technology and ideas to recover dinosaur DNA, fill in missing gene caps, and breed the previously extinct animals to exploit his accomplishment. This process is set into motion without regard to the ethics behind the research, and

His book The Decameron is a good example of a world situation, the plague. This book is something that affected him personally, and due to that he has inspiration to create this story. The setting of this story is Italy, where The Plague struck hard, showing signs as early as 1347. This disease killed millions of people, unfortunately one of them being his father. After going through his loss, he begins to write The Decameron.

The book tells that the storm knocks out all the power to the island and to all the electrical gates. This is a major problem for the scientists. This puts their safety in jeopardy. There is now nothing protecting the people from the dinosaurs because there is no power going through the electric fences. This is when all hell breaks loose. The dinosaurs realize that they are not being restrained any more and break loose. They are roaming about the island while the scientists scramble to get the power back on through a generator. During all the chaos the dinosaurs have already taken out five people out of the team of ten.

Award and three other awards afterwards. Most of his work is usually based on wars and misrepresented philosophies on religion; his stories and novels are generally self referential; he did not