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Jurassic Park - The Lost World
Comparison – Contrast
The Lost World as a novel is very different from its film version. The
most contrasts are found in the beginning of the story. For instance, the
novel starts off with Ian Malcolm giving a detailed lecture on extinction
theories at the Santa Fe Research Center. Where as, the film starts with a
wealthy British family vacationing on Isla Sorna, an island of Costa
Rica. On this island the tiny dinosaurs called compys attack a young
British girl. As you can see the beginning of the novel is completely
different from the beginning of the film. As a matter of fact, the novel
and the film do not begin to have any similarities until the characters get
to Site-B, an island off of Costa Rica where the dinosaurs where bred.
The characters in The Lost World did have a lot of similarities as well as
differences. One major character is Ian Malcolm, a forty-year-old man
who was one of the early pioneers in the Chaos Theory. Malcolm also
featured in the first Jurassic Park. Even though he was in both the novel
and the film, his characteristics were different. In the novel his leg was
hurt from his previous expedition in the first Jurassic Park, but in the
film he seemed to be perfectly healthy and uninjured. Another character
that plays a major roll is Richard Levine, an arrogant thirty-year-old man.
In the novel Levine plays as a wealthy paleontologist in search of Site-B.
As for the film, Richard Levine plays a completely different roll. In the
film he is the nephew of John Hammond, the creator of the dinosaurs. He
also has no association with being a paleontologist; his interests in the
movie are for making money off the dinosaurs by creating an amusement
park that features the dinosaurs on the main land. Sarah Harding plays a
big part in then novel and as well as the film. In the novel Harding plays
a rather young biologist, which has a relationship with Ian Malcolm. The
only difference with Harding between the novel and the film is that she
plays a biologist in the novel and a paleontologist in the film. Another
two characters that play a major roll in the novel are Kelly Curtis and

Arby Benton. Kelly is a thirteen-year-old seventh grader, who has an
interest in paleontology, not to mention that she idols Sarah Harding.
Arby is an eleven-year-old African American seventh grader; he has been
skipped up a grade because he is so intelligent. In the novel the two
children sneak on to the boat is on the expedition to Site-B. In the film
there is only one child, a young African American girl named Kelly that
is related to Ian Malcolm by adoption, which also sneaks on to the island.
The most similar of the novel and film is probably the terrain of Costa
Rica. This is probably because the terrain is a known fact that cannot be
changed. In both the novel and film, the terrain is covered with rocky
cliffs and volcanic ridges. Ravines, tall grasses, and very dense
overgrown jungles also flourished the island. Considering the dense
overgrown jungles it was very hard for the characters to see the buildings
and roads from the air, which made it difficult to find a good place to
land. One thing that made it difficult to travel, besides the dinosaurs
hunting them, was the gusty winds with updrafts.
The dinosaurs were obviously similar in the novel and film. The only
thing that contrasted the two is the fact that the novel had more of a
variety of dinosaurs than the film. There were three dinosaurs that were
mainly featured in the novel and film. Among the three, was the famous
Tyrannosaurs Rex, which caused the most damage and casualties. The
T-Rex reaches about twenty to twenty-five feet in height and has gigantic
bone crushing jaws with flesh tearing teeth. Another one was the
Velociraptor, more commonly known as the raptor. The raptors were
probably the smartest of the dinosaurs. The raptor reaches about ten to
fifteen feet in height, has a long snout, and long deadly claws that would
tear an animal or a human apart. The Compys were definitely the
creepiest because of how they kill their prey in packs. Although they
look very innocent and harmless they can kill their prey in an instant.
The Compy was about one to one and a half feet tall. They pretty much

looked like a miniature raptor.
The Lost World from the novel to the film definitely had a high number
of contrasts. The beginning as we know completely had no similarities at
all. The novel and the film did not start to have comparison until the
characters arrived on Site-B. The characters did have some similarities,
but mostly differences. More or less, the names were what made them
similar more than anything. There rolls in the novel and film were what
differed the most. Nonetheless, the novel and film did seem to have very
similar parts in one area, which was the setting of the islands. The terrain
in the novel was practically identical to the one in the film. The
dinosaurs as well had many similarities, except for the fact that there was
more of a variety in the novel than there was in the film. In the end, both
version of the great story were spectacular.