How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Velociraptors hunted in packs, and Grant thought it must have been a sight to see a dozen of these animals racing at full speed, leaping onto the back of a much larger dinosaur, tearing at the neck and slashing at the ribs and belly…. (2.9.52)
Grant doesn't need to see cloned dinosaurs to feel awe and amazement. He experiences wonder in the delicate task of digging for dinosaur bones. The little details he learns hint at a deeper reality that he can only imagine.
Quote #2
"So we set out to make biological attractions. Living attractions. Attractions so astonishing they would capture the imagination of the entire world." (2.10.43)
For Hammond, astonishment is a means to an end. He wants to capture the imagination of the entire world so he can bring in the big bucks.
Quote #3
Grant liked kids—it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. (3.20.57)
In the 1993 movie, Grant doesn't like kids—at all. Grant in the book is pretty different. He likes kids because they're the ones most enthusiastic about dinosaurs—which means that they still have the capacity to feel genuine awe and amazement. In a way, that makes what Hammond is doing all the worse: he's preying about the innocence of children in order to make a buck, without thinking about the possible dangers of pitfalls of his park.