The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Post 3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Pg 32-46
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- The Dentrassis' are the best cooks in the universe.
- There should be a book like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the real world.
- The Earth has officially been destroyed to make a bypass.
- The fish was actually called a babel fish which translates alien dialect for you.
- This book actually challenged the existence of god.

4 Insightful Questions
- How did Ford get on the Vogon Flagship?
- What was the point of Arthur putting a fish onto his ear?
- How bad is Vogon poetry that makes it worse than being killed?
- Where does Arthur see the metaphysical imagery in the Vogon's poem?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Scintillating (pg 33): brilliantly clever
- Squalid (pg 37): extremely dirty and unpleasant
- Aural (pg 40): of or pertaining to hearing or the ear

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Metaphor - "..threw the bomb to the ground and ran forward through the sea suddenly frozen smiles" (Adams 32).
- Simile - "Thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lagrid bee" (Adams 46).

1 Summary Sentence
- The Earth was destroyed by the Vogons and Arthur and Ford hitchhike onto their flagship.