Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Sparknotes

(1)In Douglas Adams´ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is plucked off of planet Earth just seconds before it is destroyed to make room for an intergalactic hyperspace bypass, and together, Arthur and his friend Ford embark on the journey of their lives. (2)The book opens with Arthur panicking over a group of officials with bulldozers who are planning on destroying his house to make room for a bypass, and he thinks his day cannot get any worse. (3)The day however, did get worse, and right before the entirety of planet earth was destroyed by Vogons (ugly aliens), his quite peculiar friend, Ford Prefect reveals himself as a quite humanoid alien, and together, the two friends hitch a ride on a passerby Vogon ship. (4)They think the day cannot get any worse, but once again, they are proven wrong, since the captain of the ship does not take a liking to
(6)Arthur and Ford join their quest to find the legendary lost planet of Magrathea, which they soon find due to their very useful but annoying supercomputer. (7)On Magrathea, Arthur discovers that planet Earth was in fact a massive super-computer designed to calculate the great question of life, the universe and everything, since the race of pan-dimensional hyperintelligen beings (rats) who commissioned earth already have the answer to life, the universe and everything – but they’ve found it’s not much use without the question. (8)The Earth’s calculations were due to run and complete after ten million years, but just five minutes before completion, the Vogons destroyed it. (9)Arthur’s survival offers the pan-dimensional beings an alternative rather than constructing an Earth mark II, if Arthur would just consent to let them extract the information from his