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Dr. Sarah Harding is an animal behaviorist who specialized in animal behavior which also included the dinosaurs. In both canons, she joined the Research Team led by Ian Malcolm, with whom she has a relationship in the film, to Isla Sorna.
Well Sarah is confirmed to be the daughter of Dr. Gerry Harding in the film canon, and has a half-sister, named Jess Harding, both of whom were involved in the Jurassic Park Incident and its aftermath, her relationship with Gerry Harding is only; implied in The Lost World.
In The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film), Sarah serves as the deuteragonist.
History[]
The Lost World: Jurassic Park[]
In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Sarah had joined a small team of researchers on Isla Sorna on John Hammond's request. She displayed an array of knowledge in both living animals, having researched at the San Diego Zoo and dinosaurs, understanding the anatomy of the leg muscles of the infant Tyrannosaur, she successfully treated. Sarah was joined later in the expedition by Ian Malcolm; with; who she had an ongoing relationship and his other team members as soon as they could. Despite their rivalry, Sarah had endured Burke's behavior and even tried to save Burke; when he was panicked; into the Tyrannosaur's mouth after he saw a snake slithering; into his shirt. The Tyrannosaurs stalked the group for a time; because Sarah's jacket was covered in blood from; when her and Nick Van Owen set the infant's leg. Sarah and Malcolm survive the expedition.
Sarah was also present at the San Diego Incident and tranquilized the adult male Tyrannosaur; before he could be killed; by the large animal control. Sarah was last seen in the film asleep; with Malcolm on his couch well Hammond had commented on the Incident on television.
Personality[]
Sarah is an intelligent and adventurous individual; with a free spirit and a sense of independence. She has repeatedly shown no fear of wandering; into the habitats of animals and dinosaurs alone, and interacting with them directly, and has also been seen to be willing to stand up for her beliefs, as seen in the film; by her insistence to Robert Burke that; Tyrannosaurs do not abandon their young. Despite of that; Sarah can sometimes be an ungrateful individual, as seen; when she told Ian to shut up after he came to warn them about the paired rexes coming for their young; when she and Nick were responsible for the parenting dinosaurs coming for them; in the first place.
In both the film and novel respectively, Sarah is dependable and capable, as well as very compassionate, heroically rescuing all other individual and trying to ensure their safety, only endangering the lives of her human companions; when trying to help the life of an animal; such as; when she had assisted the baby Tyrannosaur's injury. In the film, her most notable achievement was tranquilizing a buck Tyrannosaurus in San Diego; before the Animal Control unit could kill him, ensuring the Tyrannosaur family's survival.
Trivia[]
- In the film, particularly in her introductory sequence, Sarah Harding exhibits traits from the character Richard Levine, who was removed from the film.
- Claire Dearing of the Jurassic World Trilogy bares several similarities to Sarah Harding as a character:
- Both are redheaded women who work with and try and save dinosaurs from antagonistic or malicious groups
- Both primarily wear primarily green clothes (trousers and tops plus jungle-suited boots).
- Both characters' surnames end in "ing".
- She went looking for Malcolm at a hospital in Costa Rica after he was injured in the Isla Nublar incident in 1993.[2]
- Dr. Frances White from the comics Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games also bears a resemblance and role to Sarah Harding.
- Sarah's status after The Lost World: Jurassic Park is unknown as she is neither seen nor mentioned in Jurassic World: Dominion. However, Ian Malcolm mentions that he now has five children which is two more than he was stated to have in Jurassic Park, suggesting that he had further children with Sarah or someone else following his adventures on Isla Sorna.
- Although not considered a human antagonist, her actions on Isla Sorna and San Diego indirectly resulted in the deaths of multiple people, on the island, S.S. Venture, and San Diego. Therefore, she's considered one of the most controversial protagonists of the franchise.
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References[]
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- ↑ Mentioned by Hammond in The Lost World: Jurassic Park when Malcolm pays him a visit at his mansion.
