Douglas Adam's Genius Writing Style

Douglas Adam’s Genius Writing Style

INTRODUCTION

Biography and Early life

Douglas Noel Adams was born on March 11th, 1952 and he died on May 11th, 2001. He was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist, and dramatist. He was best known for the “Hitchhiker 's” trilogy of five books. He was born in Cambridge and a few months after his birth his family moved to East London. His sister was born and then his parents got divorced. Douglas, his sister, and his mother moved to an animal shelter run by his maternal grandparents. He attended Brentwood school at the age of 9. When he was 12 years old he stopped growing but he was 6 feet 5 inches. His teacher used to joke about Adam’s height. His teacher, Frank Halford was the first person to recognize Adam’s talent in writing. Adam remembered Frank’s praise for the rest of his life.

Although he was a genius, his career was not great after he graduated. He edited Foothills Revue and appeared in episode 42

He likes to put up big plot points and then completely disappoints. "We 've met, haven 't we Zaphod Beeblebrox—or should I say ... Phil?" (Adams, 72). There seems to be an interesting history between Zaphod and Arthur but it turns out to be just a party they both happened to attend. In another part of the book the answer of life, the universe, and everything is going to be answered. There was a huge setup to this point and BAM! It is 42. There must be a hidden meaning right. It turns out that the Pan-dimensional beings needed to know the ultimate question. Here the readers are peeling their eyes to know the ultimate question. The question was calculated for 10 million years and in the last five minutes, the earth was destroyed. It’s anti-climactic because he introduced a big concept and made the answer simple. The book is filled with moments like this one and the end of the book is dull