Jurassic Park Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 22 Summary

Chapter 22 Summary

The guests are brought to the control room, where they are introduced to the many ways that the dinosaurs are monitored. There are two independent and highly computerized ways that the computer monitors the dinosaur population. The control room is a place where safety and security is constantly reinforced. Malcolm, who does not always reveal what he is thinking, asks to see a graph of the height distribution of the procompsognathid population. The graph shows a typical bell curve, and Malcolm, the mathematician, points out that the curve indicates normal population growth, not laboratory manufactured population growth. Dr. Grant asks for a little more detail from Malcolm, but the mathematician promises that the tour will make everything clear.

Chapter 22 Analysis

Once again, the title of the chapter serves to demonstrate the control that people think they have over Jurassic Park. The computerized monitoring systems give the illusion of safety. The last paragraph...
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