Tom Sawyer, Sal, And Hammond In Jurassic Park

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Tom Sawyer, Sal, and Hammond are three characters that try to accomplish something, however, they do not achieve their goals. Tom and Hammond both wanted to make money, while Sal wanted to find out the veracity as to what happened to her mother. The three of them had to venture out on their journeys in order to reach their goals, which they never ended up accomplishing. Tom Sawyer, the main character in the book, “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer”, demonstrates a variety of characteristics. First of all, Tom is a very big goof off and doesn’t take things seriously. He is known to do many futile and indiscreet things. Therefore, he causes ongoing problems which only leads to his own failures. A second characteristic of Tom is that he is very ignorant. …show more content…
A few characteristics about his personality includes a variety of things. First, Hammond depends on other people to do his work. Hammond doesn’t like to work diligently, and if he didn’t depend fully on his workers, the park might have been a little more prosperous. Hammond is very apathetic, and not a hardworking person. Another trait about this character is that he is very naive and takes the problems in the park very nonchalant. This caused the park to become extremely precarious with many complications since Hammond didn’t think wisely when he brought live dinosaurs to his island. Hammond is oblivious, and continued to mess up many things. He is heedless of all the danger he is creating. The final important trait is that Hammond is very adamant. Hammond causes many things to fail, since he doesn’t want to put the time, money, or effort into doing something that is not important to him. He is passive, and does not want to waste his money on things he does not care about. Here are a few quotes to support this. The first quote is, “There is absolutely no problem with this island” (Crichton). This quote shows that Hammond is negligent of all the danger he is causing and that he does not think that the island is hazardous and can harm people who visit. The second quote is, “But you didn’t want to put money into a storm barrier to protect the pier” (Crichton). This quote shows that Hammond is adamant and didn’t want to waste his time, money, and effort into building a storm barrier to protect the pier, and just wanted to spend his money on building the actual attractions and the dinosaurs. This final quote is, “This is my island. I own it. And nothing is going to stop me from opening Jurassic Park to all of the children of the world. He chuckled. Or, at least, the rich ones” (Crichton). This quote shows that Hammond is mainly making the park for young kids to come, but from the

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