Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Post 9

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Pg 127-137
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- The mice are pretty evil for such small bodies.
- Now the mice have telekinesis.
- I still don't get how Deep Though arrived at the answer of 42.
- The cops of Magrathea sound very phony and corny.
- These cops are bad liars saying they would blow up Magrathea if Arthur didn't turn himself in.

4 Insightful Questions
- The Vogons destroyed the Earth 5 minutes before what program was complete?
- How come the mice didn't speak english on Earth?
- Did Trillian know the mice were super intelligent when she took them onboard?
- How did the alarms set off?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Perfunctory (pg 127): casual: hasty and without attention to detail
- Contours (pg 131): a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
- Fusillade (pg 137): rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Hyperbole - "Ford's eyes popped halfway out of their sockets" (Adams 137).
- Hyperbole - "All in all it was extremely fortunate at that moment every alarm on the planet burst into an earsplitting din" (Adams 134).

1 Summary Sentence
- Arthur reunites with his crew and meets the mice who want to steal his brain so it can be analyzed to find out the Ultimate Question.

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