Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

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In “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adam, the main character’s, Arthur Dent, main conflict was that he was placed into a foreign situation with no idea of what to do. But first to describe Arthur Dent, he is a British man with seemingly dim wit in the beginning of the book, but this is mostly due to his own confusion. Arthur’s best friend Ford Prefect comes to tell him of the impending doom laid upon the Earth, but Mr. Dent is preoccupied with the task of warding a bulldozer away from demolishing his home. His friend, Mr. Prefect, tells him about the plans for the destruction of the Earth due to the building of an intergalactic bypass, which is ironic for that was the same reason his house was being demolished on the Earth that now laid in ruins. But because of Arthur’s friend he was on of very few survivors, but now they were held on a ship belonging to the very aggressive race of aliens known as the Vogons. With no knowledge of these people, Mr. Dent has been put in an unfortunate position.

Although Arthur Dent had no prior knowledge of the universe, or the different alien races that inhabit it, he was fortunate in one respect he had an indispensable resource in his friend and his electronic book, “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” After a short while from being transported onto the Vogon war ship, Mr. Prefect showed Arthur how to operate the book. With this he could learn all he would possible need to know in order to avoid death in the hands of the Vogons. With his friend he had one of the people who contributed to the creation of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” Thanks to his friendship with Mr. Prefect, he was able to learn about the most deadly weapon in the Vogon’s arsenal, the reading of their poetry aloud. Thanks to this information provided by his friend, and the book he carried, he would be able to avoid death by the Vogons....