Raptor Red
Raptor Red1. The novel I read was "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker. Published by
Simon &
Schuster, in 1995. Rapotor Red is a female raptor struggling to survive in a
kill or be
killed world on her own after losing her mate.
2. The setting changes all throughout the book as Raptor Red migrates
from one
place to another. In somesettings she is in thick rich mossy forests looking
for plump
Iguanadons to eat, to other desert like lands where the sun is so hot she
must sleep
through the midday and hunt late afternoon when the heat is bearable. Setting
is a very
important because the authour must reconstruct the crustacoius period setting
and all the
vegitation ,lust forests, muddy salt flats, sandy beaches, and dry temperate
valleys. These
settings are all very vital to the book because it creates the prehistoric
atmosphere and
brutal planet these giants once inhabited. One of the key elements to the
book to make it
more realistic is how the author describes in detail all the other animals
that Raptor Red
hunts and runs into in the book. The author puts great detail in how Raptor
Red stalks her
prey and kills her victims. Once you start reading this book and you see how
intelligent
raptors once were you really can't decipher Raptor Red's thinking to a modern
day
human hunter.
3. This book follows the life of Raptor Red and all the troubles a raptor
would face
in it's life from good times to bad. The book starts off with Raptor Red
hunting an
Ultrasaurus with her mate. They carefully select the dinosaur they will
single out to kill.
They look for faults in their prey, like injuries, preoccupation with
someting elese,
stragglers who want to rest for a while, just about anything to help assure a
safe victory
without any injuries to themselves. Raptor Red and her mate single out an
Ultrasaurus
who is preoccupied with trying to mate rather than pay any attention to the
fact that it
was being stalked by predators. Raptor Red and the mate kill the Ultrasaurus
on a mud
flat, and the Ultrasaurus falls on it's knees and dies. While Raptor Red and
her mate are
gorging on the larg animal her mate detects a scent of another kind of
smalled raptors in
the area that want some of the kill. Raptor Reds mate lets out a fierce roar
and a stomp to
scare away the smaller raptors. But when he stomped in the mud next to the
Ultrasaurus it
falls over in top of him, pinning him under the Ultrasaurus. The heavy
Ultrasaurus slowly
sinks deeper into the mud trapping Raptor Reds mate under it until her mate
drownds
slowly in the mud. Raptor Red is devistated and sits next to the Ultrasaurus
carcas her
mate is trapped under for 36 hours, until it sets into her she must accept...
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