This may be helpful for your paper

I was looking for some literary reviews of The Lost World and came across the google books version of the book. Here is the link http://books.google.com/books?id=Z8IVAAAAYAAJ&dq=literary%20review%20of%20the%20lost%20world%20conan%20doyle&pg=PP7#v=thumbnail&q=&f=false. Using google books you can search from text and words from the book. This may be helpful when looking for examples to support your thesis. Also it has some pictures in it that you may find entertaining. They look like the product special effects of a 40's movie.

Life outside "The Lost World "

While reading through the past couple of chapters I couldn't help but to think about how the conflict with Professor Challenger and his skeptics is much like today with people who have seen UFO's and believe in life outside of our little world. In the novel many students and towns people thought Challenger was a lier because his idea was so radical. And today the public think that people who claim to have seen aliens or UFOs are crazy. During winter break this topic was of great interest to me. I watched numerous documentaries on life in and outside of our solar system. Many of the scientists interviewed stated that they believed in life on other planets. One of the scientists said something that really hit it home to me. He said that there are over 500 BILLION solar systems in the Milky Way and there are 100 BILLION galaxies in the universe. He said that the odds that there are no living organisms in any of these systems would be almost impossible. However we are taught in religion and by some professors that there is no life outside of our small planet sailing through the black abyss of space . But who should we trust? I think that the lesson taught in book and one we are still learning today is that you should never eliminate possibilities based on what seems to be impossible! If we close our minds we could miss important scientific discoveries that could be monumental just like Professor Challenger's discovery of the Ape People and Jurassic creatures.

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