Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Cheese Monkeys
From my understanding "The Cheese Monkeys" is about a boy who goes off to college and finds himself in college. FRom The book it selfs seems like a puzzle that is made to make the reader think and remind us of what we do see in Chipp Kidds eyes. From the first pages of the book i enjoy how he describes waiting in line for hours and then the course selector chippy asks him what classes he is taking. He talks Biblically torturing the man, which I found hilarous because I have felt like that after standing in line forever. But what I noticed through my critical lense was the references to south american revolution. I think he refers to south America frequently because I believe that he himself is rebelling by going outside his normalcy.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Jurassic Park 1-181
Jurassic Park either the blockbuster or Micheal Crichton's best selling novel both follow Paleontologist Alan Grant who in the novel does love kids, Ellie Sattler a paleobotanist, Ian Malcolm a mathematician who specializes in chaos theory which explains why life is so, a whimsical old billionaire John Hammond, a kind lawyer Donald Gennaro, and Hammond's' two grandchildren Tim and "Lex" Murphy. The book opens on a close to third world clinic off in Costa Rica and an American Doctor Bobbie Carter. When on a quiet night a helicopter with inGen painted on the sides flies to the small clinic bring a limp body to her and tells her it was a construction accident, because he was so mangled. An the boy dies, because his attack was so bad, but he manages to whisper one word raptor. She ask her nurse what a raptor is and she tells her that in Mexican folklore a raptor is someone that takes your children in the dead of night. Then she looks up in her English dictionary raptor. This chapter is one of my favorites but it still surprises me that no one would think of a dinosaur because dinosaur bones had already been around for a hundred years. Then this book and movie helped set the scene for genetic revival. The next chapter explains what inGen or International Genetic Technologies. Which in the book was the first to experiment with genetic technology. Then another dinosaur attack happens on a little girl on a beach. The attack cause a lot of speculation, which then leads to them sending a sample of the dinosaur being sent to Alan Grant. A paleontologist who receives research money from John Hammond the owner of Ingen, who is an " A five year old boy with a wallet full of gold". During his dig John Hammond comes and invites them to his new to his new wild park reservation or theme park. which" will make the one at San Diego look like a petting zoo". At first Dr. Grant and is colleague Dr. Sattler refuse until he offers to pay for their dig for the next 10 years. They are put on the jet with Hammond and Donald Gennaro who is a lawyer and represents Ingen investors.
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