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51 pages 1 hour read

Michael Crichton

The Lost World

Michael CrichtonFiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

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Part 5Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 5, Chapter 1 Summary: “Baby”

Sarah, with her experience in animal field hospitals, understands Eddie’s reasoning for helping the baby T. Rex. With its broken leg untreated, it would be easy prey. With Malcolm’s help, they sedate the dinosaur and prepare a cast from a polymer resin that will expand as the baby grows. The procedure is tricky, and Malcolm suggests that the others leave; he fears the dinosaur’s parents might come looking. The rest head out to the high hide.

Part 5, Chapter 2 Summary: “High Hide”

The others join Levine up in the shelter. They watch as a prowling pack of raptors attack a triceratops. The triceratops fends off the raptors.

Part 5, Chapter 3 Summary: “The Herd”

Night is falling. Dodgson’s henchman heads to the dock to rendezvous with the boat. Suddenly the road ahead is blocked by a herd of dinosaurs. Another herd blocks him from the back. They refuse to move, and stare at the Jeep. Determined to get to the dock, he gets out of the vehicle and starts to run in what he thinks is the right direction. The dinosaurs charge him, and he loses direction, heading into the jungle. He comes out on a long sweeping plain, the same plain that stretches below

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