The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Pg 47-61
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- The instance with Ford and Arthur explaining the Vogon's poetry was probably the funniest part in the book so far.
- I guess the Vogon's know their poetry is bad.
- The planet Ford is from, Betelgeuse, looks alot like the word Beetlejuice, like the character from the cartoons and movies.
- The Improbability Drive Sounds like a cheap way to rescue Arthur and Ford from death.
- Zaphod is the new commander of the Heart of Gold, because he stole it.
4 Insightful Questions
- What are the chances of being rescued from deep space and near imminent death?
- What ever happened to Zaphod stealing the Heart of Gold?
- Where did all the items from the hole in the galaxy come from?
- Are Ford and Arthur going insane, they have turned into penguins?
3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Peruse (pg 47): examine or consider with attention and in detail
- Hoick (pg 48): to lift something up wildly
- Oblong (pg 61): having the shape of or resembling a rectangle or ellipse
2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Irony - "It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's prize for Extreme Cleverness, he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart ass" (Adams 60).
- Metaphor - "They plunged through heavy walls of sound, mountains of archaic thought, valleys of mood music" (Adams 57).
1 Summary Sentence
- After being kicked off of the Vogon flagship, Arthur and Ford are rescued by the Heart of Gold.
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