Fred Lybrand

This is a short chapter where Crichton puts us in the shoes of those who have been sabotaged, but don’t yet know the situation they are in.

At 104 pages, ‘Fourth Iteration’ is the second longest section – to the 111 pages of ‘Third Iteration’, and ‘The Main Road’ is the longest chapter at 12 pages – it is also past the halfway point, as there are a total of 59 chapters.

This chapter, the final part of ‘third iteration’ really kicks off the action.

The first of eleven ‘tables’ or ‘exhibits’ used in this chapter.

The Jurassic Park film has no stegosaur – instead the sick animal is played by a young triceratops.

This is the fifth of twelve times that Crichton will use the word ‘Control’ to introduce the chapter.

The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton on the cover of the 1990 edition no longer fits the modern interpretation of what the organism’s posture would be.

Chapter 24 is the third of eleven chapters which are titled ‘Control’ – for the control room within Jurassic Park, and for the illusion of control which we see stripped away over the course of the book.

Chapter 23 has many tie-ins, perhaps as Crichton continues to follow the use of the Famous, Famous, Fictional trope to make the world real for the reader.

My daughter, Lillian Lybrand, is class of 2027 at New Hampton School.