In the novel Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy people can expect to encounter poetic vogan, planet creating mice, and even the answer to the universe, life, and everything else. The novel Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a very unique book in which it flits from one scene to another with almost no correlation but packed with humor. In Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Arthur is whisked off earth seconds before its destruction. With his alien friend ford meet up with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian to journey through the universe looking for the meaning of life. Humor is used to give the reader a book that they can enjoy with laughter and fun. Dialogue is used to create humor by creating comical conversation that end with
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Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth… more importantly, a towel has immense psychological value… any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is , is clearly a man to be reckoned with.” The use of this document both introduced the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to the reader and also displays to the reader the overall content of the book to not make much sense but be very funny at the same time. They had just met Zaphod beeblebrox and Arthur was reading an article in the Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy that pertained to one of Zaphod’s friends. “He became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the ballpoints he’d bought over the past few years. There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time. Somewhere in the cosmos he said, there was a planet entirely giver over to ballpoint life forms.” This insert from the guidebook in the story gives us a document that deals little with the overall story but gives us a funny story. The use of documents in this book to develop humor is created by the ability to create stories inside the book that fit in with the storyline while developing a funny mini story inside the book for people to laugh
Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth… more importantly, a towel has immense psychological value… any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is , is clearly a man to be reckoned with.” The use of this document both introduced the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to the reader and also displays to the reader the overall content of the book to not make much sense but be very funny at the same time. They had just met Zaphod beeblebrox and Arthur was reading an article in the Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy that pertained to one of Zaphod’s friends. “He became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the ballpoints he’d bought over the past few years. There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time. Somewhere in the cosmos he said, there was a planet entirely giver over to ballpoint life forms.” This insert from the guidebook in the story gives us a document that deals little with the overall story but gives us a funny story. The use of documents in this book to develop humor is created by the ability to create stories inside the book that fit in with the storyline while developing a funny mini story inside the book for people to laugh