Hitchhiker's Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Characters in books tend to represent a thought, feeling, moral, or an actual person. Characters tend to be dynamic, meaning throughout the course of the story, the character changes in a significant way; this pertains to the progression of the story, and can also symbolize some event that changed our world. These events can be symbolized through static characters as well, as commonly an effect of satires. A popular satire on everything ranging from religion to our way of life is Restaurant at the End Of the Universe by Douglas Adams. The characters in Restaurant at the End Of the Universe tend to remain relatively static, because they represent various things, that have refused to change. This is the second book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series which contains hundreds of satires on anything Douglas Adams saw flawed or broken in governments, religion, or even certain people. …show more content…
In the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he doesn’t change much. He represents authority figures after being caught in a scandal, which causes their political career to become irrelevant, and they become a citizen who lives in infamy. This effect causes them to be well known; however for a poor or bad reason. Zaphod Beeblebrox represents this, because despite no longer being the president of the universe, he still is significant as shown by meeting “the most powerful man in the universe”, who ends up being someone who seems to be