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Jurassic Park Study Guide

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by Michael Crichton
About 75 pages (22,371 words)
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Prologue Summary

A tropical storm drenches a clinic on the West Coast of Costa Rica. The reader is introduced to visiting physician, Bobby Carter. She normally works in emergency medicine in Chicago. She and her assistant hear a helicopter approach, and they go to see it land. They note the words "InGen Construction" on the side. A man named Ed Regis gets out of the helicopter with the crew, and they carry a young man from the helicopter into the emergency room.

Dr. Carter knows that InGen Construction is building a resort on a nearby island. Ed Regis tells her that the young man they carried into the hospital was hurt when a backhoe ran over him. She begins to examine the man and notices that his injuries are not congruent with what Ed Regis told her......

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