Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Literary Elements

To whom it may concern,

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam does not belong in the school curriculum. It has an immature writing style compared to other books in this curriculum, there is little to no character development, and multiple other reasons this book does not belong in the highschool reading curriculum. First, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has an immature writing style compared to other books in the highschool curriculum. For example, The Secret Life of Bees has a clear writing style and theme. There are little to no sarcastic jokes, and it has a clear point of view. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has pointless jokes that don’t particularly connect with the audience. Adams includes randomness in his book, which is meant to be humorous but typically goes right over highschool student’s heads. This book seems to be lacking a structure that makes books enjoyable, and there is seemingly no purpose to this book. Second, there is no noticeable character development in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur Dent, the main character of the story, starts out as a stubborn man who has nothing particularly interesting about him. At the end of the

One of these include the whale and the bowl of petunias that formed from the improbability drive hitting the missiles on the planet these characters were on. The whale was confused about its existence, while a literal bowl of petunias thought “Oh no, not again” (Adams 134). Why did the missiles turn into a whale and a bowl of petunias? And why was the bowl of petunias in this situation before? Then, later in the story the whale is found dead and the bowl of petunias is not mentioned again. The whale is what created the hole into the interior of the planet, but it’s so pointless to include this and the bowl of petunias and it’s just this ridiculous plot hole that, for some reason, Adams decided to include in his