FREE ESSAY ON JURASSIC PARK

JURASSIC PARK

Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton is an incredible book, which describes genetic
engineering and the creation of an extinct species. Michael Crichton uses marvelous
detail throughout the book. As great as the book is, it is not that appropriate for
children who are 15 and under because of the gore, description, violence, and obscenities
through out the story.
Jurassic Park is a great book. Michael Crichton uses such descriptive detail, that you
could picture everything that is going on like you are watching a movie. There is not one
moment of boredom in the book. Every second something new is happening or another problem
in the park occurs. These things make the book very hard to put down. Jurassic Park is a
marvelous book with a great plot. Yet, later it becomes inappropriate for children. 
The first thing that makes Jurassic Park not appropriate for young children is that it is
amazingly gory. Michael Crichton describes people and animals being killed in a very
descriptive manner. When Dennis Nedry, the computer programmer, was on his way to the
dock to deliver frozen dinosaurs embryos to another genetic engineering company, a
concrete barrier was in his way. He got out of his car and started to run into the
jungle. When he reached the jungle river, he heard a soft hooting cry. When he turned
around, he saw a dilophasaur standing directly in front of him. Suddenly, the dilophasaur
spit at him. The novel refers to this by saying, "Nedry...felt an excruciating pain in
his eyes, stabbing like spikes in the back of his skull." It then says, "Slowly the
realization came to him. He was blind...Then there was a new searing pain like a fiery
knife in his belly, and then Nedry stumbled...then there was a new pain on both sides of
his head. The pain grew worse, and as he was lifted to his feet he knew the dinosaur had
his head in its jaws, and the horror of that realization was followed by a final wish,
that it would all be ended soon (p. 196)." This demonstrates the horrifying description
in the book. Another gory scene was when Ed Regis was swallowed by the juvenile T-rex.
The book describes this by saying, "Regis yelled, and the juvenile ducked his head, and
Regis began to scream. No words just a high pitch scream. The scream cut off abruptly,
and when the juvenile lifted his head, Grant saw ragged flesh in his jaws (page 216)."
These were only two very gory parts out of many. 
Jurassic Park also has many violent and obscene scenes. Other than the two above, there
are many more. One of them was when Henry Wu, the man who was in charge of the making of
dinosaurs, was standing out side the lodge when a velociraptor jumped the roof and tore
Wu open. The book refers to this by saying, "Wu was yanked bodily out of the door...Wu
was lying on his back already torn open by the big claw...the raptor was tugging at Wu's
intestines even though Wu was still alive, still feebly reaching up to push the big head
away (page 334)..." This was probably one of the goriest scenes. Even with all these
deaths, and more, there were still lots of injuries. Just about every character was
injured in some way. As one could see, Jurassic Park is very violent and gory. Jurassic
Park is also obscene. The language used is definitely inappropriate for children our age.
They use foul language throughout the book. At one point, Tim Murphy, the 11 year-old
boy, curses four times in one line. He does this when the car falls over the cliff and is
stuck in the branches of the trees. 
Jurassic Park ended up becoming Michael Crichton's most successful novel, and a New York
Times Best seller. The book was so successful in fact, that Steven Spielberg ended up
making a movie about it three years later. Overall, Jurassic Park is a spectacular novel
that uses great detail. Even though it was such a great book, there is a lot of violence
and gore. Because of all this violence, this book is not appropriate for children under
15.