Jake Marasco 2/5/13 Per. 5 Honors English The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy starts with Earthman Arthur Dent facing the demolition of his house to make way for a motorway bypass. He was then met by hi friend Ford Prefect who had three things to tell him: He was an alien from Beetlegeuse‚ He was a writer for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy‚ and the Earth was about to be destroyed. Arthur and Ford get picked up by a Vogon ship avoiding their destruction
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a classic path. Starting from birth‚ to leaving home‚ to a final battle and ending with the journey home and the final reward. Every hero follows this pattern in some way‚ shape or form. This even includes Arthur Dent‚ from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur is someone we consider to be and everyday monomyth hero because‚ with a few exceptions‚ he follows the Monomyth cycle to a tee. When we first are introduced to Arthur everything seems normal until he discovers his house is being
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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
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book Report DON’T PANIC The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams and published in the year 1979. It is both a science fiction novel and a comedic read. Adams wrote this novel in a time when space exploration was on every human’s mind. The Americans had recently landed on the moon and the sky had no limit. No one knew how far humans could go or what else was out there. Adams wrote this book to allow humans to see the possibilities
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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy Chapters 1-12 Author-Douglas Adams Arthur wakes up and finds a bulldozer in his front yard‚ he goes out and lies in the mud in front of his house so the foreman Mr. Prosser does knock his house down to build a bypass for a highway. One of Arthur’s friends‚ Ford Perfect comes by and persuades Arthur to go to the pub with him and for Mr. Prosser to lie in front of Arthur’s house for him. Ford Perfect buys 6 pints of beer for him and Arthur. Ford
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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
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(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
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Roald Dahl wrote a short story about himself driving towards London. Along the way he saw a hitchhiker and decided to give him a ride. He noticed from the beginning that there was something special about this man. The hitchhiker’s face was compared to a rat’s and he said that his fingers were very nimbly. Since Roald is a writer he likes to listen to other people stories‚ but this hitchhiker seemed more interested about his car than to talk about himself. He started off slowly with some harmless
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is traveling by getting free lifts from passing vehicles‚ this simple word has branched out and has been linked to a vast group of stereotypes. In most customary hitchhiker stories we expect someone to be in a body bag before we finish reading whether it be the hitch-hiker or the person giving someone a ride‚ but in the three hitchhiker stories that our class read: “The Hitch-hiker” by Anthony Horowitz“‚ The Hitch-hiker” by Francis Greig and “The Hitch-hiker” by Roald Dahl they were able to bypass
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An aspect that makes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy different from many other notable works of literature‚ is that it was never intended to be a book. As previously mentioned‚ he first began the writing process while working as a radio scriptwriter. The first ideas for the book came from a trip to Austria‚ while lying in an open field he began thinking of the book’s characters. The very first episode of the series was broadcast on the eighth of April in 1978‚ and it was a huge success. The
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