Expository Writing: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What are the most interesting books to read? My teachers say, dystopian fiction, but I never knew what dystopian fiction was. When they explained it to me, it was basically the opposite of a utopia. Also, a disaster is often introduced early in the novel, and usually one of the main characters notices but doesn’t completely notice that there is something wrong. Lastly, dystopian literature has no clear or complete ending. Now that I know what dystopian literature is, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a perfect example of this.
To begin with, dystopian literature includes a minor disaster that is introduced early in the novel. In Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Arthur, the main protagonist wakes to see the yellow bulldozer about to tear down his house. It begins with Arthur when he wakes up and the word bulldozer runs through his head. When he realizes that there was a bulldozer about to tear down his house he runs outside and lays in the mud, protecting his property. This is obviously a characteristic of dystopian literature because this is how the book starts out.
Second, dystopian literature has another characteristic that is in this novel, this characteristic is, that one of the main characters notices but doesn’t completely notice that there is something wrong. Arthur says, “All through my life I’ve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big,
