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Prey By Michael Crichton Analysis

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Imagine trying to kill an almost indestructible swarm of tiny, murderous robots. This is what Jack is faced with in the novel Prey by Michael Crichton. Jack, the protagonist and narrator, was a software programmer for a company called Media Tronics, until he discovered that his boss had been stealing from and was cheating the company. His attorney told him that he should try to leave the company immediately, but instead Jack went to a board member. The board member, also being in on the indiscretion, got Jack fired for gross negligence. That led to Jack becoming a stay at home dad for his three children, Nicole, Eric, and Amanda. Meanwhile, Jack’s wife was the vice president for a company named Xygos. His wife, Julia, started to become cold towards him and the children, and he started to suspect that she was having an affair. An excited Julia came home later than she promised one night, and she showed Jack a demo of some …show more content…

Julia keeps trying to kiss and entice Jack, even once they discover a dead team member in a closet with a swarm flying around him. Jack and Mae soon discover everyone in the plant has been infected by the nanobot swarm except themselves. Instead of these nanobots showing predatory behavior, they control their hosts, slowing eating at them and creating more nanobots. Jack and Mae discover and drink a type of E-coli destroying phage, protecting them from infection. Jack then takes the phage and puts it in the sprinklers, planning to drench the infected team. The team captures Jack and throws him into a magnetic chamber, threatening to destroy him. Julia enters to interrogate Jack, and, remembering Amanda’s recovery, he activates the chamber which pulls the swarm out of her body. Julia tells Jack she loves him and begs him to forgive her and to destroy the swarms. Jack runs to the roof and puts the phage into the

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