The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams. Adams takes you into a world or should I say galaxy filled with characters that will always flip the reader’s expectations. Many characters in this book experience defeat in a surplus of situations. Adams uses his unexpected humor to show that defeats, failures and let downs are not always for the worse. Throughout the book Adams humor is very unexpected but it is this way only because of the way he heightens the current event. “For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale