Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Essay Questions

In the non-fiction book “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams, there are two men, who search for the question to the answer they already have. As they journey through space and worlds they come to a realization that they have already found the question to their answer. Is life like this, do we ask ourselves the answer even though we already have the question? Could there be multiple questions for the same answer? Indeed, anything we ever contemplated of that we think is important isn’t actually truly significant. Anything we reflect that is big and important isn’t actually as big and important as we believe that it is. Adams establishes in the book that we are not that important when he wrote, “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant can’t little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea” (Adams 1). In fact, that quote shows that we don’t even amount to anything. We often make a big deal about things that aren’t truly that important. …show more content…
Together and between them they had gone to and beyond the furthest limits of physical laws, restructured the fundamental fabric of matter, strained, twisted and broken the laws of possibility and impossibility, but still the greatest excitement of all seemed to be to meet a man with orange sash around his neck” (Adams 39-40). The author seems to be suggesting that people in general do not have their priorities in line with what is most important. At this point in the book, I thought that it seemed weird that these highly intelligent characters were more excited about meeting some dude in an orange sash,