Topic > Jurassic Park - 937

Hammond would have succeeded in designing his park if he and his team hadn't been so overwhelmed by greed and power. Since he would be the first to open such a park, he could charge whatever he wanted. Was he just looking for money or did he simply want people to know about his discoveries about the possibility of cloning prehistoric dinosaurs? One of the mistakes that caused the park's failure was that Hammond and the other park designers did not think about the unpredictability of nature itself. Jurassic Park was supposed 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 plantings emphasized the sense that they were entering a new world and leaving the normal world behind. (83)The whole 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 planners never considered what they were planting in the park. The little things they failed to see contributed to the park's failure. Ellie Sattler reveals one of the Park's problems: But whoever decided to place this particular fern by the pool obviously didn't know that the spores of veriformans contained a deadly alkaloid beta-carboline. Even touching the attractive green fronds could make you sick, and if a child took a bite, they 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 so, were the technical failures associated with human stupidity. When the park was designed, the humans who control this aspect of the park obviously did not consider that there might be problems in the system. Gennaro questions Arnold about the security of the control system, and Arnold insists that it is secure. Gennaro is convinced that everything is safe, but Malcolm insists he knows for a fact that the animals have escaped. Does the computer ever make mistakes? Only with children. Sometimes it confuses them, because they are such small images. But let's not forget it. The young almost always stay near flocks of adults.