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Compare And Contrast Hithiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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James Trebnik Ms. Schuck Hitchhikers Guide 4-11-23 Hitchhikers Guide The book The Hithiker Guide to the Galaxy focuses on Life, Death, and improbability. Characters are constantly put in extermly dangerous situations, which put their life on the line constantly. Life and death are both extermly vitalt. Life can’t function without death and vice versa. The recolection of our death can lend power, grace, and fullness to every moment, and every action. The movie focuses on humor, but the book focuses more on the details and descriptions of the characters and items in the galaxy. Something I personally looked over as not that crazy was Arhtur and Ford escaping earth. After thinking about this occurrence I realized they survived extermly low odds and mind bogling to think about.. They quite literally were some of the only people that escaped earth from its destruction, …show more content…

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