During the summer, I had to choose from a variety of books. I decided to read the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. When looking through the list of possible books to read, the title “Jurassic Park” immediately caught my attention as I had already seen the movie adaptation of the novel. I enjoyed the movie, but hadn’t considered to read the novel from which it was based upon. Seeing that it was an option to choose from for my summer reading assignment, I decided to read it to determine whether it was the same as the movie. After reading the novel, I determined that in some ways it was better than the movie. The reason for this was the way that the characters were portrayed. In the movie, I did not understand some characters that well.