Summary Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Riley Brisbine

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Minor spoilers!

Summary and characters:

The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is a science fiction novel by Douglas Adams set in our galaxy, the milky way. The story begins with Arthur dent, one of the main characters who is a human, just had the earth destroyed to make a galactic highway. He is the last human before earth is destroyed to survive and has to go with his friend, ford prefect, who was stranded on the earth after exploring the galaxy to make a galaxy guide. Other characters that are included in their adventures include Zaphod Beeblebrox. Zaphod is at first introduced as a president of the galaxy despite the fact that no one really cares. He is introduced to us as a somewhat respectable man, (with three arms might I add), until he takes a golden box from a spaceship called the “heart of gold”, which is one thing that sets the heart of gold apart. Later we are introduced to trillian, zaphod’s girlfriend who helped him steal the heart of gold, which we learned is actually an “infinite improbability drive. This allows the ship to go to any possible universe. The last character is Marvin, a depressed robot who they found in the heart of gold and makes mechanical doors commit suicide.

The first of which being that each character has a very unserious way of looking at their situations, cracking jokes and making fun of what might be going on. The other reason is that each character has such amusing quirks to them, such as a president who acts like a buffoon and a thief, a man who gets into trouble because he wants to write a book, and the previously mentioned chronically depressed