Jurassic Park Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 54 Summary

Chapter 54 Summary

John Hammond, upset at Malcolm, gets more upset as the mathematician slips into a coma. Hammond feels that the mathematician's degenerating condition is a personal slap in the face, so he goes outside to get away from the situation. While outside, he begins to think about the situation. He convinces himself that his employees were the biggest problem. He lays blame on Arnold, Wu, Regis, Harding and Muldoon for the failure of the park. In spite of the huge investment, he is indifferent to the impending military strike, because he has dozens of frozen embryos at the InGen headquarters. While outside, he hears the roar of a Tyrannosaurus rex. He panics and runs into the forest, where he falls and breaks his ankle. A moment later, he realizes that the roar he heard was simply his grandchildren playing with the park's sound system in the control room. In Malcolm's room,...
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