Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Essay

Have you ever wanted to escape your monotonous life to a crazy reality? If so, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the book for you. In this book, Arthur Dent is a perfectly normal Englishman until his friend Ford Prefect (who is actually an alien) saves him from the destruction of the Earth. They get kicked off the ship they escaped on and then happen to get rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy and Ford’s half cousin, on his stolen ship running on improbability. They then land on the planet-making planet of Magrathea. Arthur then learns about how the Earth was a supercomputer calculating what the question of life, the universe, and everything was and that it was run by mice. Finally, they narrowly escape after galactic police attempt to capture them. Following my examination of Douglas Adam’s book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I have concluded that the theme is that the world can be absurd at times. One aspect of the book that supports my claim for the theme are the extraordinarily improbable events that happen throughout the book. For instance, one of the worst poet in the galaxy’s “own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life
The unlikely events that happened through the book were one aspect of the book supporting my theme. As an example, fried eggs fell out of a wormhole in the book. Another characteristic of the book substantiating my theme was the refutation of simple presumptions. For instance, in the book, mice turned out to be pandimensional and hyperintelligent. Finally, the coincidences in the book corroborated my claim. A random wormhole appearing when somebody talked was an instance of this. Although most people lead serious lives, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reminds us to stop and appreciate the absurdity of the