Jurassic Park

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Hammond would have succeeded in the planning of his park if he and his team hadn’t been so overwhelmed with greed and power. Since he would be the first to open a park of this type, he would be able to charge what ever he wanted. Was he just out for the money or did he just want people to learn about his discoveries of being able to clone prehistoric dinosaurs? One of errors that caused the park to fail was the fact that Hammond and the other

designers of the park didn't think about the unpredictability of nature itself.

Jurassic Park was to be like some sort of resort or theme park. The discrepancy was that, Hammond wanted the park to be natural. He wanted

everyone to feel like they had stepped back in time.

Everywhere, extensive and elaborate planting emphasized the feeling that

They were entering a new world, and leaving the normal world behind. (83)

The entire island was designed with wildlife. The only problem is that Hammond and the other creators of the island didn't think about the effects of introducing extinct plants and animals into today's world. The designers never considered what they were planting in the park. The tiny aspects that they failed to see contributed to the failure of the park. Ellie Sattler reveals one of the problems at the Park:

But whoever had decided to place this particular fern at poolside obviously didn’t know that the spores of veriformans contained a deadly beta-Carboline alkaloid. Even touching the attractive green fronds could make you sick, and if a child were to take a mouthful, he would almost certainly

Die—the toxin was fifty times more poisonous than oleander. (85)

Just as important as the tiny details of the park that were overlooked, if not more important, was the technical failures associated with human stupidity. When the park was designed, the humans controlling this aspect of the Park obviously didn't consider that there could be problems in the system.

Gennaro questions Arnold about the security of the control system, and Arnold insists it is secure. Gennaro is convinced that everything is safe, but Malcolm insists that he knows for certain that animals have escaped.

Does the computer ever make a mistake? Only with the babies. It mixes those up sometimes, because they’re such small images. But we don’t sweat that. The babies almost always stay close to herds of adults.

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