What Is The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Task 1:
For my classics book project, I read a book called: “The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”, written by Douglas Adams . The book is about how little we humans know about the universe, and what things may be out there that we don’t even know of. It starts by following a man named Arthur Dent. He is an ordinary man living a normal life. One day a friend of his, Ford Prefect, tells him the world is going to end. Arthur doesn’t believe him. Later that day the earth is exploded by alien spaceships. Arthur and Ford are the only survivors, only because Ford Prefect wasn’t a human after all. He was a galactic traveller/hitchhiker working on a book, called “the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”, and he was able to save himself and Arthur. The rest of the book is about Ford teaching Arthur all the things the humans never knew about
their own galaxy, and all the complications and new people they meet on their way.
There were multiple reasons that I chose to read this book. The main one is that both my brother and my father have read the book, and they really enjoyed it. I have also heard lots of good things about the story, not only from people that have read the book, but also from people that have seen the movie made from the same story. The book is also a science fiction book. I have enjoyed lots of other science fiction books before, and I therefore I thought there would be a big chance that I would enjoy this one as well .
Task 2A:
Should you read this text ?
Everyone should know how to read. From we are small children, we are taught that reading is one of the most important things to learn. We use years at school to become better at reading and we are encouraged to read, both by our teachers and parents, but also by other people, that thinks reading is one of the best things you can do in your spare time. But is this true? Should we be reading more, or less? In this text, I will be figuring out these questions, by finding advantages and disadvantages of reading.
Literature can be a good tool in learning. Reading books is a very good way to shorten down the time it takes to learn something. The way it does this is that it makes it so you don’t have to find all the information about a topic yourself, but you can find all the information you need in one, single book. This can be everything from the history in a specific time, to how to be a better person. This is most likely the main reason our teachers and parents tell us to read, because they want us to learn as much as possible. Today, knowledge is important. Knowing more, means getting a higher status job, which often ends with getting more paid. Because of this, reading books to learn is very important, especially in a younger age.
You can also experience things through books. A lot of things can happen to a person in their lifetime. You can be in love, experience a breakup, go on a long journey, experience something scary, and lots, lots more. Many times, a person can’t experience all the things they may want to. There can be many reasons to this. Maybe they can’t afford it, or they live in the wrong place to do something, or the thing they want to experience just hasn’t happened yet. In these situations, fictional literature can be great. Many writers are very good at writing in a way that makes the reader feel like they are experiencing what is happening in the book. This can be a great way for someone to experience something they can’t do in real life. It can also help people learn how to react to certain situations if they occur, because they have experienced it before, just in a book.
Some things are better to experience in real life.
Even though experiencing things through books can be great, there are some things that can be just as good, or even better to do in real life. Reading a fiction book can prepare you for a situation, but it will always be different in real life. Therefore, there can be smart to try and do things yourself as well, instead of experiencing it by reading. An example is if you read a book about someone dying, you might think you know how to react or how it will feel, but it may be better to find out yourself how you will react to the situation.
Some literature is made to be enjoyable. Of course, you can enjoy learning new things by reading factual prose or experiencing things in books. Some literature however is constructed for the sole purpose of being enjoyable to read. Most of these are fiction prose. Many of these books/texts also mixes with experiencing new things, because that often can be enjoyable as well. An example of a type of literature many people enjoy are crim novels. This has become popular because it can be exiting to read and you want to know what happens next in the
story.
Reading can take up a lot of time. If you go to school, you most likely read there to learn. Reading a book can take a good amount of time, depending on how long the book is and how fast of a reader you are. So, if you like reading in your spare time and you read in school, this can take up a lot of your time, that could have been used to do a sport or hang out with friends. This can be seen as a negative aspect to reading, because you may have experienced something even better if you did something else, instead of reading.
Reading is used to do many good things. Mainly to learn and to experience things, but you can also read just because you enjoy the book or the genre. Even though there are many things that can be experienced in real life and that reading can take up lots of time, I think that we overall should read more books, both fiction and factual, because of all the benefits it brings. Especially when we today have the chance to get our hands on almost whatever book we would like.
Johannes, 15

Sources :
Book: “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”
Writer: Douglas Adams
Publishing firm: Pan MacMillan, England
Book: “New Flight 3, textbook” Writers: Berit Bromseth, Lisbeth Wigdahl Publishing firm: Cappelens forlag