Crichton (2004) introduced earlier the calmness of the Cavendor River (p 377) and now it has become a raging torrent due to the storm. In this instance the characters are involved in a mobile and treacherous space which they need to escape from as they are trapped in the SUV. The author has tried to represent a relationship between humans and nature and there is a particular environmental message trying to be portrayed. Curry (1998) argues that the re-enactment of nature is taking place in contemporary society which is manifested in popular culture texts. So texts such as Crichton who re-enact nature has been manifested through contemporary society such as the media.
“ They were in the middle of a rushing river, Muddy brown and moving fast, standing waves of churning water....there were rapids, big boulders, sink holes...Trooper Rodriguez saw the SUV bouncing and spinning down the river....ahead he saw an overpass, a roadway held up with big concrete stanchions. Each stanchion had caught debris floating downriver; the pylons were now wrapped with a tangled mat of tree branches, burned trunks, old boards and floating junk” (pp 415 – 416)
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