Congo by Michael Crichton: A Picture of Humans’ Underestimation to Superior Creatures

A technology company discovered the mysterious and deemed-to-be-myth city that once existed in the very heart of one of the places in the Dark Continent --- Congo --- which promises a vast fortune for the company if the expedition they had sent to locate the lost city would found the well of wealth first, before other interested parties arrived on the site.

Peter Elliot, pressured with so much controversies about his study on the talking ape named Amy, embarked himself ,as he was invited by the company that funded his research in devising language that will better understand other creatures, to an expedition led by Karen Ross, the Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc Congo Project Supervisor, that aims to unravel the mysterious entity appeared before them on the videotape fed to them by the first expedition.

A story that depicts the reality where big corporations are competing to yield more advanced technologies that will leave their competitors behind and supply them the profit that let them survive and flourish in the business.

A novel packed with historical backgrounds that made if believable and genuine account which served as neuron-fattener for the brain because of with so much informative and candid facts that educate readers with regards to the world of academicians and expose the individual holding this masterpiece into the culture of cannibalism that considered as taboo which in turn serves a greater purpose for the people who are carrying out such way of living.

A Michael Crichton’s genius work that will fly you to a rich, green world of the Dark Continent. From Tangier to Nairobi up to the active volcano Mukenko.

A thrilling walk and dazzling adventure with a goal-oriented mathematician, an ape-enthusiast academician, a materialistic mercenary and an ape that understands and can communicate to human.

WHAT I’VE GOT

The master of a science-fiction thriller, Michael Crichton crafted characters that portray people who are goal-oriented, who will execute anything just to meet the favorable end of their mission, even risking the lives of other people.

He also inserted an entity that was able to drill into the reader’s mind the importance of human awareness of the welfare of any creature on earth.

CHARACTERS

Peter Elliot represents the society of academicians who will exude determination towards the understanding of an unexplained phenomenon. A hopeful scientist that wish for serendipity to come for him to grasp for a breakthrough or discovery that will definitely make a name for himself and will etch legacy to the history of science community.

Karen Ross displays usual attitudes of conceited, unsympathetic, inconsiderate individual. Described in the novel as youthful arrogant with tenuous human rapport, domineering intellectually arrogant who is insensitive, driven to succeed at any cost.


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