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    saved their lives. For example, if the Heart of Gold hadn’t happened been there to rescue Ford and Arthur after being kicked out of the Vogon ship, they would have died in less than thirty seconds. But, the Improbability Drive allowed Trillian and Zaphod to be at the right spot to save them. “Characters are constantly trying to explain the sense of their actions, ignoring the chaos around them” (Hitchhiker’s). Due to these coincidences and absurd events, the characters are always on their toes…

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    they are destroying Earth in order to create a hyperspatial express route, similar to the destruction of Arthur’s house; eventually they destroy Earth. While this is occurring, 500,000 light years away, the President of the Imperial Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox just chose the top secret project called the Heart of Gold because he wanted to steal the spaceship with the Heart of Gold engine, which is why he became President. Back to Earth or what is left of Earth, the Vogans hate hitchhikers and…

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    destruction of Earth, and has a means of escape. The duo sneaks onto an enemy vogon ship, only to be ejected into space shortly after; and consistently rescued by The Heart Of Gold, the most technologically advanced ship in the Universe, manned by Zaphod Beeblebrox, the President of the Universe, and Trillian, the only other human still in existence. This book is about the…

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    Rebekah Anne Lay The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Comedy- Science fiction FICTION Plot Summary- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about an alien named “ Ford Prefect” that is posing on Earth as an out of work actor to do research to make the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and when the world is about to be destroyed he tells his friend “Arthur Dent” that he is an alien and that he has been posing on Earth to make a book and only minutes from the planet…

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    The answer to life, the universe, and everything? Simply put, it’s 42. Not only did it take ten million years to get an answer that commonly appears on a fourth grader’s math test, but it also took an incredibly intelligent race on interdimensional mice to discover. Based on that first paragraph alone you should have gotten a taste of the wackiness that goes on in Douglas Adam’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This literary work is bursting with comedic “coincidences”, and it’s…

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