Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy By Douglas Adams

Matt Dease

Humor and Lit

Mr Sciarra

3/24/23

HitchHiker Guide To The Galaxy

Humor plays many different roles and purposes throughout the novel “ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. To begin, one of the main roles humor plays throughout the story is to hold your attention and keep you hooked to the story. Another role that humor plays in this story is to help advance the prompt in order to enhance the story as a whole and make it a good read. To conclude, one of the most important roles that humor plays is its attempt to enhance and improve the characters and to cause character development. Humor plays multiple different roles throughout the entirety of the novel. To begin, one of the most important roles that humor

This is shown with the wide variety of humor shown throughout the text and interactions between characters. Some of the types of humor that is largely used throughout are dark, irony, and self deprecation. It enhances the prompt by making the reader have to think about the jokes and understand what they are referring to, this could be call backs to earlier in the story, or foreshadowing for events to come. This type of humor is shown in the quote “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” (HGTTG, Adams).This quote engages the reader into dissecting the prompt to understand the analogy, and shows humor by comparing outer space to a peanut. Finally, humor engages the reader through laughter which makes them enjoy the prompt more. One of these quotes that may make the reader laugh is “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”(HGTTG, Adams). The novel was enhanced by humor in many

Good character development and character personality is one of the most important parts of a humorous story. Humor is so important because without it, the story would be dry and boring to read, causing people to not want to put time and effort into reading it if they won't enjoy it. One of the quotes that show character personality is “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”(HGTTG, Adams). This quote shows that Arthor is a shallow, dull and sadder character in the story showing his disapproval in something as small as a day in a week. One quote that shows character development “So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”(HGTTG, Adams). This shows the relationship between characters Ford and Arthor, their friendship is light hearted and is held together by humor. Humor helps with the characters and their development in many