NEXTBy Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 Died in Los Angeles, California in 2008 Has received 10 awards, including a dinosaur

named after him (Chritonsauraus Bohlini) Only person to have the number one movie, T.V.

show, and book at the same time Graduated from Harvard then got his M.D. at

Harvard Medical Was six foot seven and 125 pounds at age

thirteen Has written altogether thirty and one half novels

NovelsMICHAEL CRICHTON PSEUDONYMS

The Andromeda Strain* The Terminal Man* The Great Train Robbery* Eaters of the Dead* Congo* Sphere* Jurassic Park* Rising Sun* Disclosure* The Lost World* Airframe* Timeline* Prey* State of Fear* Next* Pirate Latitudes* Un-Named Techno Thriller (Not Yet

Released)Non Fiction Five Patients Jasper Johns Electronic Life Travels

JOHN LANGE Odds On Scratch One Easy Go Zero Cool The Venom Business Drug of Choice Grave Descend Binary

Jeffrey Hudson A Case of Need*

Michael Douglas Dealing: Or the Berkely-to-

Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

Other WorkBooks Turned Into Films The Andromeda Strain Dealing: Or the Berkely-to-

Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need)

The Terminal Man The First Great Train Robbery Jurassic Park Rising Sun Disclosure Congo The Lost World Sphere The Thirteenth Warrior (Eaters

of the Dead) Timeline The Andromeda Strain (T.V.

Miniseries)

Screenwriter or Director Pursuit Westworld Coma The First Great Train Robbery Looker Runaway Physical Evidence Jurassic Park Rising Sun TwisterT.V. Beyond Westworld E.R.Computer Games Amazon Timeline

Protagonist: Dave

Dave is a genetically altered chimpanzee with more human like facial features and more monkey like habits.

He has DNA from another character, and an altered genome, which gives him the ability to speak.

He is kind, and very protective of his creators son, eventually biting off the ear of a man trying to harm him.

Dave is played off as a human with a rare genetic disease that makes his body grow hair all over. This keeps the media away.

Dave never does anything to anyone without provocation, and holds a childlike innocence through the whole story. He is very sincere.

Antagonist: Vasco Borden

A bounty hunter sent to retrieve body tissues containing genes a court deemed the property of BioGen from a young boy.

The young boys friend, Dave, bites Vasco’s ear off when he sees Vasco with the biopsy needle.

Vasco will go to anything to get his job done.

He is huge and scary.

Favorite character: Henry Kendall

Scientist, and creator of Dave.

Rather than let the lab kill Dave off, he risks jail time and take Dave with him back to his home.

Has a son with a bully problem, and a daughter who is selling her eggs to a crooked doctor for profit.

He keeps a good mind and loves his family and Dave through the whole book, no matter what happens.

Least favorite character: Brad Gordon

Nephew of main investor for Biogen.

Good looking guy. Head of security at BioGen. Runs into a girl at a soccer

game (while watching fifteen year old girls) and eventually gets accused of raping her, although you later find out she injured herself to help a company get him arrested.

Cant find a good defense, so his lawyer decides to use a gene that makes people want to take risks as a defence.

Goes across country taking thrills and getting into trouble as proof of the gene.

Pedophile!

Exposition

Court case over ownership of mans genes Introduced to characters; Vasco Borden

(Bounty Hunter), Dave (Talking Chimp), Henry Kendall (Created Dave), Lynn and Jamie Kendall (Adopted mother and brother of Dave) Frank Burnet (Man who lost ownership of his genes), Alex And Jamie Burnet (Daughter and grandson of Frank Burnet)

Rising Action Frank Burnet’s cell lines are contaminated,

and Vasco is hired to retrieve new cells from Frank, Alex, or Jamie. The cells are legally considered “stolen property”

Jamie is nearly abducted at school, so Alex takes him to her friend Lynn’s House

Dave is brought home from the research facility and dressed up as a human

Lynn makes fake websites to legitimize a fake disease, convincing others Dave is a human being

Climax

A school bully tries to shoot Dave Vasco abducts Lynn’s son Jamie instead of

Alex’s son Jamie, and Dave bites his ear off Vasco realizes his mistake and gets the correct

Jamie, takes him to a spa in the desert to get organ samples

Alex holds Vasco at gunpoint and gets her son back

A court rules that the cells are not allowed to be taken at will, the only ones that belonged to BioGen were the ones originally at the facility

Falling Action

The owner of BioGen loses his money Vasco disappears Both Jamie’s are safe The bully who shot at Dave is arrested Brad Gordon is injured in a fight Lives go back to normal

Resolution

Everyone is safe Kendall family decides to let Dave

continue living with them

Setting: Time Period

The time period is now. It is important because the issue with gene patents is now. They bagan a while ago, and seemed fine, but issues like owning a gene inside a persons body are problems occurring now.

Issues

Gene Patents Bounty Hunters Family

Social Issue

Gene patents. They are a ridiculous thing that should no exist, but do. The public is unaware of this problem. I want to help educate others.