Next by Michael Crichton (Entry 2)

Next-Michael Crichton    Entry 2

Carl Jeong
May 30 2012
English 11

     One of the story arcs, is about an orang starts talking in French in the jungle of Sumatra. This story goes with people keep hearing the Orang cussing out vulgar language out to the visitors. This breaks it to the news and hundreds of people worldwide soon travel to Borneo, in Sumatra Jungle all to hear the orang talk, but when they do, the orang insults the people in French. The scientists at the institute want to learn further about this orang that speaks, leading them to eventually to kidnap the orang from the jungle and proceed to tests and find out what makes the orang talk. They perform tests on the orang with genetic testing. There were genes in the orang, modified human genes that allowed the orang the ability to speak. It turns out that the orang has throat and larynx structures of a human, and not of an ape. The news breaks out and people are shocked to hear about this.

      This story arc presents a lot of analysis or exegesis of the talking orang. The narrator has added in fictional newspapers advertisements about bio genetic engineering based on real life. I can say that he has made a detailed interpretation into new discoveries. By making an analogy of real life research and the story's, we are extremely close, in terms of how we are advancing further in to the future, how we test our test subject, and our wanting to find out new discoveries and breaking that to the news around the world. This story of the talking orang further explains in detail about how willing we are to learn further about amazing things of our own planet.

      This story arc of the novel starts out shocking, I did not expect a talking ape to appear. I believe that Michael Crichton wants the reader to believe that this is how scientists and the media work. They discover an interesting species, but proceed to perform unethical tests and study it so they can send this to the social networks and become data worldwide. However, the real question they should be asking is, how or where did the orang get such an ability to talk? There are even fictional newspapers based in real life and is added in the story to make the story seem serious. This story arc leads readers discussing about what can cause such amazing discoveries to appear.