This is a short chapter where Crichton puts us in the shoes of those who have been sabotaged, but don’t yet know the situation they are in. The reader is ahead of the characters. Crichton has built tension by revealing the severity of the situation to the reader, and then having the reader follow the characters as they discover their predicament.

Best Writing, Quotes

“Or until we find Nedry, and make that little bastard turn the systems back on.” – Arnold to Muldoon on Page 223

– Page 223

Arnold can’t force Nerdry to turn on a system that has been destroyed by lightning, especially when Nedry has engineered that same system to fail in search of bounty by sabotage.

Page by Page Highlights, Quotes

“They were sitting in Harding’s gasoline-powered Jeep, staring forward past the flick flick of the windshield wipers.” – Page 221

How does Crichton make it real? He uses a real product – the Jeep. He helps you feel the rain and hear the windshield wipers.

“Most people didn’t know it was possible to blow an entire system through a modem – the lightning pulse climbed back into the computer through the telephone line, and – bang! – no more motherboard.” – Page 222

“Or until we find Nedry, and make that little bastard turn the systems back on.” – Arnold to Muldoon on Page 223