Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy

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In the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the major theme is how to survive life. The main character Arthur Dent shows the reader how to survive life through the many lessons he learns throughout the journey he is thrust into. Arthur’s planet is destroyed by an alien race but he is luckily saved, to find out he is part of a science experiment run by mice. The book shows the reader the way to survive life, through three main ideas; positions do not mean anything they can change in a second, life moves on so we must move on to, and we never know what is going to happen so we must always be prepared. These three concepts help support the main idea of how to survive in today’s world. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy show many different ways to survive in the present day society in the time it was written and now. Surviving in today’s society is tough. Through the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the reader learns many ways to survive it. The first way the reader learns about is the position you currently have means nothing. A person may think they are in charge, but in reality there is always someone or something with more power. In the book it is the mice are in charge of the humans and that there is a larger chain of power that the humans did not know about. In today’s society the current position the reader is in means nothing because there is always someone who has power over them because there is no one absolute ruler. Surviving in today’s society is tough, but if the reader remembers their position is not the top position, and they respect everyone because you never know who will gain power the reader may survive. The most important lesson that can be learned in life that helps the reader survive is stuff happens, life moves on, so must we. This idea is shown when Earth is destroyed and Arthur is devastated, Ford is

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