Michael Crichton’s novel, The Lost World began with the exposition of a character who is infamous to Crichton’s work, Ian Malcolm
. The entire introduction and prologue is about Malcolm
and his scientific views and theories. In a section of the book called “Hypothesis”, Malcolm
discusses a theory of “lost worlds” - areas in which extinct beings may live, with Richard Levine, a man who’s ideas were totally different from Malcolm
s. Levine and Malcolm
discuss a possible journey to an island that is suspected to be one of the so-called “lost worlds”. At first, Malcolm
is reluctant and thinks that the idea is stupid. After much coaxing, Malcolm
agrees to go.
Levine arrives on the island first, after a lot of useless chatter and talk and the introduction of two young characters, Arby and Kelley, who are students of Levine’s and sometimes run errands for him. Almost immediately after they arrive, Levine and his......

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Title: The Lost World Thesis
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