Michael Crichton

A detailed Summary of Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton has presented the reader with some of the most engaging, timely, and thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. His works are well known to the public and are very popular due to the simplicity of the books context. Unlike the early writers, such as Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who use a lot of imagery, irony, and symbolism to illustrate the big picture and challenge the human mind, Crichton uses rather primitive but captivating dialogue. And his works show that a book doesn't require complex wording and vivid description to make it colorful and interesting. Michael Crichton adopts his writing to the modern generation of readers and gave them what they wanted, a unique story in addition to rapid plot development. Crichton by far has taken the lead with his novels that supersede the average modern writer. What his novels lack in literary merit and distinctive style they make up for in fast character development and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

The literary approach to a novel is an important factor that each writer considers before writing a book. From the early writers to the modern writers, they each considered how they should approach the book. Should th

ey dazzle the reader with complexions, long descriptive passages, vivid images or just fast paced suspense using dialogue that the reader can relate to and understand? Most early writers took the more creative method, they used the language as it was spoken in the early times and used it in their descriptions. Often writers like Steinbeck who wrote in dialogue applied the dialect of the location that the event was taking place. In his book Of Mice and Men, Crooks says

"S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." (80)

Crichton is a modern writer, therefore, he doesn't try to bore the reader with long monologue, and instead he creates a quick overview of the big picture. He presents the reader with the basic and needed facts. Same principal is used when it comes to character development, or the lack there off. Most of his characters have no background to them as he showed just that in his novel Lost World, with the following description; "It was a beautiful day in Costa Rica, as Mike was driving through with his beautiful wife, ready to take their vacation, from the hard work that they left in Dallas." (15) The characters already appear in a fully developed stage with preset thoughts and emotions. Crichton's modern writing style is also visible as flaw in his novels, "he writes in a clean, concise prose and his sentences are generally elliptical and convey the essential information." (CLC 109) He uses few if any long descriptive passages, except then Crichton assumes the role of medical, scientific, or social historian. Crichton still likes to show just how much knowledge he h

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