The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

“Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s peanuts to space” (Adams 76). The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is about the president of the universe, the two last people from Earth, and an alien hitchhiker trying to find the meaning of life without being killed by spaces trials and tribulations. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a fun-filled adventure that takes the mind away from what the human race perceives as life and reality in an episodic and hilarious fashion.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy starts out with the main character, Arthur Dent, and his best friend, Ford Prefect, going to a pub
The author of this story explains in great detail what he wants to explain, leaving many other details of what and why out of the story. “Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again” (Adams 135). It is shown that in this quote he gives no detail into how or why this plant could even comprehend. It makes the reader think of the infinite possibilities that could have taken place to make a plant think on its own. Although, this quote can also prove the wit of Douglas Adam’s writing style because it makes the reader laugh out loud. Douglas Adams wrote this book as a parody; it is not by any means supposed to be a viewed as traditional science fiction novel. He took an idea, such as the world ending, and put it into perspective on how irrelevant that would actually be compared to what is happening in the universe and it is not really mentioned again until the end of the book. He takes the main character, Arthur Dent, and throws him into a world where he is expected to know what is happening and how the universe works like everyone else does. “You don’t need to. Just put this fish in your ear” ( Adams 56). This quote can stylistically show how the author takes one of Earth life’s daily troubles and implements them into a much larger universe. “While Zaphod teases Arthur
However, getting into the nitty gritty details there is an all-knowing narrator that explains ideas so that they are clear to the reader. This all-knowing narrator tells the reader facts and is happening around the main character that he may not realize is happening. Creatively enough, though, a third voice can also be heard when reading this book, and that voice comes from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book itself. The kind of style this book was told in, however, is very episodic; the plot moves from one area of the plot to the next with exciting jumps of action. “The action had to reach a peak every so often, raising the curiosity of listeners who would not be able to simply turn the page to find out what would happen next” (Stanley). This story was originally a screenplay for a twelve-part radio show and the reader can tell because of the action. Throughout this whole story, the main character comes across new and exciting