My introduction to The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series by Douglas Adam began with another version of the book by one of my favorite author, Eoin Colfer, his version was humorous, dramatic and have a bit action. I was curious to read the original author’s version and found it on equal ground, if not better than the other version. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is a new experience for those who are familiar with other science fiction novels. while most of the science fiction novels are more focus on action, drama, romance, death by robots, or dystopian futures. The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy are more on comedy, irony, mistakes, politics and many other things. The pacing or the story is somewhat fast so I had to reread the …show more content…
Throughout the story, whenever there is drama, there is bound to be humor as well. The book also had many digressions that readers may welcome with open arms. The digressions, like the book, were funny, weird and informs the reader on certain subjects not mentioned in the rest of the book. For example, on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, an alcoholic drink in the book, a digression described its effect as “...having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.” Another example is a digression on whether God exists or had existed. “The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing’. ‘But’, says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED’ ‘Oh dear’, says God, ‘I hadn't thought of that’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic….” After that logical argument the digression did not fail to include this piece of interesting thought: “meanwhile, the poor Babel Fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communicate between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” Adam seems to love to use anti-climactic twists to create humor, for example one of my favorite quote in the book, "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and …show more content…
Another example is, “For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog”. The beginning built up our anticipation and created suspense with strong verb choices like mighty, tore, empty, dived, and
Another strong resemblance and play on words can be observed in the Christian story of original sin and Crake's mass destruction of humanity. In Genesis, God sets aside one fruit tree and commands Adam not to touch or eat from it, as a result of Adam's betrayal, God casts him out of paradise, and forces hardship on him for the rest of his days. Likewise, Jimmy is fully cognizant the first time he meets Oryx that she is off limits to him, yet his betrayal of Crake ultimately results in his leaving Paradice and forces various hardships on him. Lastly, in the Snowman-as-Adam device, there is a realization that the companions which have been assigned by a higher power are insufficient, and the following desperate need for companions that are closer on the evolutionary chain. For Adam, this companion was Eve. Throughout Atwood's novel Snowman is absolutely desperate for some companion, someone more understanding than the Crakers, or better than his ow...
Symbolism is very prominent over the course of this story, giving it that much more meaning. Knowles makes not only one, but several instances to religious principles and more precisely in this case, Adam and Eve. These of jealousy, greed, and selfishness are prominent throughout both stories as well is a significant fall whether it would be as monstrous as humanity or on the smaller scale of relationships. The disruption of peace and harmony are also evident in the two. In addition, it is interesting how the author finds a way to tie them all into each other.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a phenomenal book that portrays life in the South during the 1930’s. This poverty stricken time, in which many struggled to get through, seemed to never grow dull by the means of the Finch family. Harper Lee’s award winning book was captured in a film containing the same title. Although the movie was in black and white and average in length, it lived up to the vivid story depicted within many pages. This worldwide hit reached many minds, but it is up to the people to decide which one is better: the book or the movie.
The use of suspense in “The Hitchhiker,” keeps the audience in a state of panic, wondering what the outcome will be. The protagonist looks back upon the torturous six days, remembering his protective mother, and the commonplace traveler. Fear mixed with suspicion, he identifies the hitchhiker on the most inappropriate hitchhiking roads, set on terminating the foreboding individual. Leaving the audience at the climax, Adams believes the hitchhiker must be mortal, and therefore able to hinder, yet the fact of Adams’ unknown identity and his total isolation, prevent his ability to take
When a person reads a book, they should read it as to amuse them, but also look between the lines for the purpose of the book. Every author, whether they’re writing fiction of non-fiction, has a moral behind their story. Every book is like a picture, a piece of art. Yes, you admire it, but you would have to squint a little bit, twist your head in any angle, and try to find what message the author or painter was trying to send out with their piece of work.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of a little girl growing up in a small Southern town during the 1930s, and facing everyday issues such as racism and growing up, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett shows the lives of black maids in the 1960s working for white women and feeling the effects of both racism and friendship from them. Despite the fact that the two books are from different time periods, The Help and To Kill A Mockingbird by are very similar novels because Celia Foote and Mayella Ewell both come from poor, white families, because both books examine society’s oppressive expectations of women from that era, and because both books show white people’s good relationships with the black people that work for them.
“I believe there are monsters born in the world . . . misshapen and horrible . . . accidents and no one’s fault . . . punishments for concealed sins . . . [their] face and body may be perfect . . . ” but they are the product of “a twisted gene or a malformed egg . . . ” (71). Literature, throughout history, has conveyed a plethora of themes, ranging from the struggle to understand divine intervention, to adversity, to the dramatization of life and death. One of the most prestigious and conventional of these themes is the conflict betwixt good and evil. Demonstrated through many works of literary merit, this divergence intensely sears the pages of history dating as far back as the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Although this idea is deeply rooted in the past, its relevancy is not depleted, still serving as one of the most controversial topics known to man. Author John Steinbeck procured a fascination with this controversy, and ultimately produced his most ambitious work, East of Eden, to create a symbolic history that would possess significance for all. John Steinbeck’s East of Eden fundamentally captures the essence of the battle between good and evil through the dramatic use of symbolism, which insinuates the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, and the poisonous rivalry between their sons, Cain and Abel.
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.
Over the decades a lot in the world has changed. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the movie Freedom Writers by Richard LaGravenese. Tell the stories about how one ethnic group rules over the other nationalities. Making it known that they have more power. This resulted from segregation because of their colored skin. They both have different situations. The “FreeWriters” is about a classroom full of kids who have poor situations, and have to defend for their lives because of their nationalities. Their teacher inspires and teaches them respect, that they all can make it in life, and that they're all equal no matter what anyone says.It was a real story taken place in La, California in the 1990s. The book “To Kill A Mockingbird” is about between whites and blacks. It takes place in Maycomb, Alabama back in the late 1930s and early 1940s. This book is fiction but based on reality.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book by Douglas Adams and the movie with the same title describes a fictional and rather comedic account of an adventure of four traveler’s space travel and surviving the various planets and their different inhabits within the galaxy, following the demolition of the main protagonist Arthur Dent’s home planet Earth. Both the book and the movie begin with Arthur’s home in the countryside preparing to be demolished to make way for a new bypass. As Arthur is protesting the demolition of his actual home Arthur’s friend and one of the travelers Ford Perfect is introduced, he is man visiting from a “small planet neighboring the planet Beetlejuice”. (Hitchhiker’s Guide) and he saves Arthur from Earth’s demolition
This turns the story darker, gives a motion of both fear and surprise. This also gives the motion that Ronald Adams is not completely sane. “hitchhikers? Here?” “A guy would be a fool to hitch a ride on these roads.” (pages 1002, 1003 The Hitchhiker) This is just the beginning of the audience thinking that perhaps the hitchhiker isn't actually real. Then Adams actually gets told himself that he’s seeing things “did you see him that time?” “No, I didn't see him that time and I don’t expect never to see him!” (page 1008 of The Hitchhiker)
The clash between good and evil has been a prominent theme in literature. The Bible presents the conflict between good and evil in the story of Adam and Eve. Many authors use the scene in the Bible in which the snake taunts and tempts Adam and Eve to take a bite of the apple of knowledge to demonstrate the frailty of humankind. John Gardner provides these same biblical allusions of good and evil in his novel, Grendel.
... of Adam and Even, who did not feel ashamed of their nudity before they ate the fruit (10). And as mentioned before, Golding concludes his Eden allusion when he brings about the “beast” as the snake that sets the boys on the fast track towards evil, while stranded on the island.
Douglas Adams, an English writer, may in fact be one of the most spontaneously humorous writers of all time; he exhibits this in many unique ways, although many could overlook this and think of his works as elementary. In many ways, one could argue that the aspects of his writing are juvenile, but one must see past this front that he puts on and realize that there is far greater thought and meaning behind it if you delve. In the truly sidesplitting novels The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the latter is the sequel to the former), Adams incorporates the following: a sarcastic, agreeable style, ironic theme within this style, and a humorously diverse set of characters that only he could have portrayed.
Book review of hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy Arthur Dent is a middle aged English man, who lives in a normal house in the West Country One morning, Mr. L. Prosser comes to Arthur's house telling him that it is going to be demolished as it’s in the way of a bypass. Arthur is unhappy about this, but the impatient Mr. Prosser tells him that if he had a problem with it, there was time to protest and that the plans were "easily accessible" in a dark, locked cellar Ford Prefect, Arthur’s friend who happens to be an alien from Betelguese, comes to his house and tells Arthur they have to go to the pub. Arthur agrees and Ford tells Prosser not to knock down the house while they are at the pub. Ford tells Arthur that the end of the world is only