The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book written by author Douglas Adams, should be kept as an eighth grade summer reading option, because of its comical relief and how it intellectually challenges the reader. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is mainly about the adventures of Arthur Dent, one of the last remaining humans, and Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusian researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a guide within the actual book). Some other characters are Zaphod Beeblebrox, who is the Galactic President, and is Ford Prefect's half-cousin; Trillian (her full name is Tricia McMillian) is Zaphod Beeblebrox's significant other. The book starts off with Authur Dent waking up and realizing that his house is about to be demolished …show more content…
Some of the comedy in the book takes some basic knowledge of physics to fully understand, hence the quote: "...(a Hooloovoo is a superintelligent shade of the color blue). All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multicolored ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a free-standing prism for the occasion" (Adams 39). The color blue in an of itself is light, rather waves of light. Light consists of a collection of component colors. When the light passes through the prism, it separates into its component colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet). The way we perceive color is really just the way our eyes have adapted themselves to detect distinct wave frequencies (different colors are different light frequencies). For an example, lower wave frequencies are seen as warmer colors (red, orange, and yellow), whilst higher wave frequencies are seen as cooler colors (green, blue, and violet). So the Hooloovoos' (Hooloovoo is a shade of blue, and blue is a specific light wave frequency) multicolored, ceremonial lab coats are really just the light's effect when traveling through the prism. In addition to the prism refracting the light and creating many bright colors (the creation of the Hooloovoos lab coat), the prism also creates a three dimensional (or tri dimensional, as used in the book)