Comparing The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy By Douglas Adams

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams uses his characters’ experiences to convey the importance of accepting difficult or shocking circumstances, as this allows one to truly cope with the issue. At the beginning of the novel, this idea is foreshadowed with the girl who realizes what is wrong with the world and how to fix it. Her realization and acknowledgement of a problem is quite different from the experiences of certain other characters, however. On earth, Adams describes Arthur as “never quite at ease with himself” (Adams 4). It is as if he cannot make peace with whatever is worrying him. When he is informed of the impending destruction of his house, he refuses to believe it. He reacts similarly when earth is demolished, providing a clear
Like everyone, characters in this novel struggle with the various misfortunes life hands them. Arthur’s initial instinct to resist his problems can be found in many of us. I now view some of the difficult situations I have been in differently after reading about the experiences of Arthur and Ford. In the past, my especially stubborn nature has led me to simply resist whatever problem I was faced with until I was forced to acknowledge it. Reading about Arthur’s long journey to accepting the loss of his home has provided me with guidance for whatever circumstances I may have to deal with in the future. I can now see how my problems could have been a great deal more bearable had I been able to accept and cope with them. Like Arthur and many others, I have spent a great deal of time and energy on the futile determination that resisting my problems could make them disappear. This instinct to resist is part of my nature, and analyzing this novel has helped me to recognize that in my past experiences and plan for the