Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Analysis

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”(Adams 1) This is how Douglas Adams describes our solar system in the book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and rightfully so. The planet Earth is very insignificant in the galactical sense, and even less significant in the universal sense. The majority of the galaxy knows little or nothing about its existence, and it is simply a footnote in the encyclopedia of the galaxy, the word “Harmless”. The Earth itself was simply demolished for construction of a galactic highway, with no regard given to its inhabitants. Planet Earth is very insignificant in the galaxy, and it was only known for being a computer to a few mice on a forgotten planet. Earth is very unknown to most of the …show more content…
In the book, the mice are portrayed as hyperintelligent pandimensional beings who were actually running tests on the men when the mice were being “tested”. It was all part of the grand scheme of running the computer. This is shown in the quote, “So your brain was an organic part of the penultimate configuration of the computer program”(Adams 200). This quote shows how the beings of Earth were simply a computer program dedicated to finding the Question with the answer of 42. This is also discussed in the quote, “We have, as you know, been more or less running your planet for the last ten million years in order to find this wretched thing called the Ultimate Question.”(Adams 200). This quote shows how the humans, who thought they were being in control, were actually being tested by the mice, while running a computer program. The reason for this is because even to the people who created Earth, it is of no importance, simply a computer used to calculate a question from a 10 million year

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