Luckily for them, they are saved by another of their colleagues, named Richard Thorn, saves them by using Dodgson"s jeep (which they had thought was broken down, AND after they thought all three of the egg thieves were dead) and ties a rope to the trailer and miraculously saves them. .

             The story isn"t over yet, though. The group misses their scheduled helicopter and has to find an alternate route from the island. They get lucky, and find a boat house on the island. They take one of the old boats, which, surprisingly, ran, and headed back to American soil.

             On the way back home, they have some conversations about their philosophies, and the book ends.

             There were too many dynamic characters in this novel to pick more than two to talk about, so I will describe the two who I found most interesting.Ian Malcom and Richard Levine.

             "Dressed entirely in black, leaning on a cane, Malcome gave the impression of severity." (Crichton 3). This, of course, is the physical description of Ian Malcom. Malcom comes off as a very logical and smart man - he"s a mathematician. He likes to use his ingenuity and problem-solving skills when he is a jam, and he is almost forced to. His leg was injured in the first incident at the InGen "Jurassic Park" site. He is a rather shy man, and for most of the story he holds back many feelings that you know he is experiencing just from the context. He also says some very confusing things, too.They used one of these things as a quote before every chapter, or "configuration". For example, "Self-organization elaborates in complexity as the system advances toward the chaotic edge" (Crichton 66). What kind of casual reader is going to understand this without thinking about it for a minute or two? Despite his strange actions and beliefs, Malcom is one of my favorite characters of all time - both in books and in the Jurassic Park movies.