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Fifth Iteration: Control
Explanation and Analysis—Told You So:
In Fifth Iteration: Control, Hammond admits to Malcolm that the raptors have escaped during the power outage. Malcolm responds with verbal irony that highlights the two characters as foils:
“The raptors got out,” Hammond said.
“Did they,” Malcolm said, breathing shallowly. “How could that possibly happen?”
“It was a system screwup. Arnold didn’t realize that the auxiliary power was on, and the fences cut out.”
“Did they.”
“Go to hell, you supercilious bastard.”
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Sixth Iteration: Return
Explanation and Analysis—Wu and Sattler:
As ambitious, early-career scientists who are foils for each other, Henry Wu and Ellie Sattler allow the novel to explore the relationship between theoretical science and field science. Where Ellie spends the entire novel out in the field learning and implementing practical research methods with her old-school mentor, Henry prefers to focus on groundbreaking and prestigious innovations in the laboratory. Henry's priorities become especially clear in Sixth Iteration: Return, shortly before his death:
Unlock with LitCharts A+He was never sure, never really sure at all, whether the behavior of the animals was historically accurate or not. Were they behaving as they really had in the past? It was an open question, ultimately unanswerable.
And though Wu would never admit it, the discovery that the dinosaurs were breeding represented a tremendous validation of his work. A breeding animal was demonstrably effective in a fundamental way; it implied that Wu had put all the pieces together correctly. He had re-created an animal millions of years old, with such precision that the creature could even reproduce itself.
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