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.