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...im, and Lex. There are a few others who appear regularly throughout the novel, but not often enough to be the main focus. Dr. Alan Grant is a paleontologist who is facsinated with dinosaurs. Ellie Sattler is a paleobotanist who studies with Grant. Ian Malcolm is a renowned mathematician. Donald Gennaro is a representative for an investing company that is investigation the park. John Hammond is a dinosaur fanactic that owns the Hammond Foundation. Tim and Lex are Hammond's grandchildren. Now that you have a basic idea of who everyone is, I feel it is imperative to get to know the personalities of each individual. Dr. Alan Grant often imagines life as it would have been like sixty-five million years ago. He loves kids. To me, it seems he has alot of patience and is very intelligent. Grant is able to think clearly in times of danger. Ellie is quite the same. She is a risk taker and it shows. Ellie and Grant get along very well and protect each other. Ian Malcolm is a very intelligent man who sees the problems with Jurassic Park even before he gets to the island. He has alot of common sense and a good head on his shoulders. He can be philosophical at times, but he knows what he is talking about. Malcolm is highly against the operations taking place at Jurassic Park. Donnald Gennaro is a very confident man. He takes alot of risks but ends up unscathed. He has the authority to close down Jurassic Park. John Hammond is a very rich man who has a dream of opening a theme park full of dinosaurs. This ends up costly. Tim and Lex are flown to the island to sooth Gennaro into not closing the park. Of course, this backfires. These are the same characters for the film also. In the film Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, MCA Universal, 1993, there are minor differences. Mainly with John Hammond. In the novel, Hammond is a manipulative man and a very hard person to work for. In the film, he is a loveable and nice. In the novel he is willing to even risk the lives of his grandchildren. It is a whole different case in the film. Other than Hammond the characters basically share the same personality. The plots in both the novel and the film are the same. Grant and Ellie are contacted by John Hammond to spend a weekend to explore his island. He doesn't tell them what is on the island. Donald Gennaro is representing an investing company that is investigation Hammond. In order to keep his island from being shut down, Hammond has to allow Gennaro to inspect the island. With his approval, the island can open. So, in order to make an excellent impression, Hammond brings Grant and Ellie along to hopefully endorse his park. If he can get their approval, he can most likely get Gennaro's also. He also invites mathematician Ian Malcolm to the island as well. They all arrive at the island. They are find out what all the rucus is about. Hammond has seemed to have done the impossible. His company InGen has successfully cloned dinosaurs! They are all in wonder. Then Hammond's grandchildren join in on the fun. The problem is that Hammond hired a backstabbing computer programmer named Dennis Nedry. He has been offered over a million dollars to steal Hammond's dinosaur embryos so that another company could make dinosaurs as well. Well, in order to get past the security cameras, Nedry had to shut the system down. That turned the electrical fences off. The dinosaurs can now get loose. And they do. So now it isn't a pleasurable trip. It is a strenuous fight for survival. Man versus the product of man. A beast that hasn't roamed the Earth in sixty-five million years. The Tyrannosaurus R...