The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Analysis

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The story “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, by Douglas Adams, begins with the Earth and goes on to explain how unhappy and upset everyone on Earth is. It goes on to tell about how humans try to fill some sort of void in their lives by buying things, but the things that they bought were also unhappy. Until one particular Thursday a woman had been thinking about how everyone could be happy, she thought very long and hard until she got her answer, but before she could tell anyone the Earth was demolished and the answer was gone forever. The story isn’t about the woman, the story is a man named Arthur Dent. Arthur is a normal man who lived in England and lived in a normal house that the city had wanted to to tear down to build