Who Is Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park?

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Jurassic Park is about an attempt to create a theme park based on cloned dinosaurs from the Jurassic period. The book was written by Michael Crichton in 1990. It was intended to be a cautionary tale about genetic engineering. It was originally meant to be read in a child’s point of view, but was switch to an adult’s point of view for better understanding. Throughout the novel, the author uses a lot of symbolism to demonstrate how humans don’t think before doing, such as the poisoning of their own creations, extreme fortification and extensive protective measures, and the technology that created all the chaos that happens, all because they could, but didn’t stop to think they should. The park is contained on a fictional island near Costa Rica,

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