Douglas Adams Setting Analysis

In this book, there is a lot of crazy, yet exciting things going on. It’s about aliens, space travel, earth exploding, and so much more. However, what the author “Douglas Adams” uses small details in setting and characters that makes the book not only interesting, yet makes it feel more realistic. Thus I'm going to explain how the author uses setting as my independent reading project.

"The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. It stood on its own and looked over a broad spread of West Country farmland. Not a remarkable house by any means – it was about thirty years old, squattish, squarish, made of brick, and had four windows set in the front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye"

You can already see how reading this sentence gives you an Idea of how the setting looks like.

"At eight o’clock on Thursday morning Arthur didn’t feel very good. He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash. Toothpaste on the brush – so. Scrub. Shaving mirror – pointing at the ceiling. He adjusted it. For a moment it reflected a second bulldozer through the bathroom window. Properly adjusted, it reflected Arthur Dent’s bristles. He shaved them off, washed, dried, and stomped off to the kitchen to find something pleasant to put in his mouth."

In this part of the book, the author gives us an Idea of how the character looks like, and what challenges he might be

Another one followed and did the same thing only louder. It’s difficult to say exactly what the people on the surface of the planet were doing now, because they didn’t really know what they were doing themselves. None of it made a lot of sense running into houses, running out of houses, howling noiselessly at the noise. All around the world city streets exploded with people, cars slewed into each other as the noise fell on them and then rolled off like a tidal wave over hills and valleys, deserts and oceans, seeming to flatten everything it