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The main character in the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams, has many conflicts throughout the novel. In the beginning, Arthur's house is scheduled to be demolished to build a bypass over it, “This bypass has got to be built, and it’s going to be built” (Adams 6). Arthur has lived in the house for about three years and for the city to build a bypass over it must be very upsetting. The city did not even do a proper job of informing Arthur about these plans. Immediately afterwards, the Vogons also destroy Earth to build a hypergalactic bypass, “This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council...As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the development of the outlying
regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition” (Adams 22). This troubles Arthur because him and his friend Arthur Ford are the only ones who escaped Earth and Arthur has now lost his family and friends and could not do anything about it. This affects Arthur later in the book, unlike losing his house, which causes him to be upset immediately. In conclusion, Arthur’s conflicts in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are him losing both his house and home planet, Earth.
Hope and joy can be hard to find especially when times are tough. This is a situation in Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse , the character Billy Jo and her family are living in the time of the Dust Bowl and are struggling financially . Her father is a farmer in a time where nothing grows and after an accident Billy Jo’s mother passes away. This is a big part of Billy Jo is effected emotionally and shows seems very sad. Billy Jo has to move and has to move on and find joy and hope even in tough times.
AP English Literature and Composition MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Title: A Raisin In the Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Date of Publication: 1951 Genre: Realistic Drama Biographical Information about the Author Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She grew up as the youngest in her family. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a real estate broker.
This independent reading assignment is dedicated to Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut experienced many hardships during and as a result of his time in the military, including World War II, which he portrays through the protagonist of Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse-Five, however, not only introduces these military experiences and the internal conflicts that follow, but also alters the chronological sequence in which they occur. Billy is an optometry student that gets drafted into the military and sent to Luxembourg to fight in the Battle of Bulge against Germany. Though he remains unscathed, he is now mentally unstable and becomes “unstuck in time” (Vonnegut 30). This means that he is able to perceive
Have you ever heard about the hippie who had to go to a Middle School after living on a remote farm in the novel Schooled by Gordon Korman? Well, Capricorn Anderson is a flower child who lives at Garland Farms until his grandmother, Rain, falls out of a plum tree, which changes this hippie’s life. Now, Cap has to go to a public middle school and live with Mrs.Donnelley, a social worker, which he is not prepared for.He is just a hippie with a soul of good, who is not prepared for physical fights, cursing, and even video games! He doesn’t understand this modern world; he’s as lost as a kit who couldn’t find her mother.
...hniques in the book that lead to conformity, to make the people ultimately follow the way the government wants everyone to follow, to be an unintelligent and unquestionable people.
The use of suspense in “The Hitchhiker,” keeps the audience in a state of panic, wondering what the outcome will be. The protagonist looks back upon the torturous six days, remembering his protective mother, and the commonplace traveler. Fear mixed with suspicion, he identifies the hitchhiker on the most inappropriate hitchhiking roads, set on terminating the foreboding individual. Leaving the audience at the climax, Adams believes the hitchhiker must be mortal, and therefore able to hinder, yet the fact of Adams’ unknown identity and his total isolation, prevent his ability to take
Within the text the author makes the character appear paranoid though his tone when he realize that he’s seeing the same hitchhiker every time. The character mentions early in the text that he would have forgotten him completely, but then Adams realizes he sees him again. “ I couldn’t
In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the reader has the experience to understand what it was like to live in an insane asylum during the 1960’s. Kesey shows the reader the world within the asylum of Portland Oregon and all the relationships and social standings that happen within it. The three major characters’ groups, Nurse Ratched, the Black Boys, and McMurphy show how their level of power effects how they are treated in the asylum. Nurse Ratched is the head of the ward and controls everything that goes on in it, as she has the highest authority in the ward and sabotages the patients with her daily rules and rituals. These rituals include her servants, the Black Boys, doing anything she tells them to do with the patients.
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy there is absurdity, and unpredictable events on every page. The character’s spend their time searching for reason, and meaning behind life.
Ford Prefect is a remarkable, elemental figure of comic relief in the novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a sci-fi by the legendary Douglas Adams. An adventuring hitchhiker through space, he and his best friend, Arthur Dent, embark on a quest to find the purpose of the universe. He brings out the humor and a broader view of events in the novel, and is the only other protagonist apart from Arthur who endures mostly the same problems, and yet his approach to these problems and witty characteristics are what makes him a very different character. He is Arthur's closest companion, the writer and presenter of the Guide to the Galaxy. He is wise, buoyant and levelheaded. Thus, he is the main hitchhiker in the novel, and brings about a sense of sheer dramatic irony and humor into the story amidst a tangled plot.
The beginning of our plot introduces both Adams and the hitchhiker, but not all is right with the free traveling man. He seems to constantly follow Adams, “Crossing the Brooklyn bridge in the rain that morning, I saw a man leaning agains the cable poles.” (page 1002 The Hitchhiker) being as the first time he sees the man, Ronald Adams doesn't think much of it. Until he sees the man again, the mood getting a tad eerie. “I would have forgotten about him, except a hour later I saw him again.” (page 1002 The Hitchhiker)
The scene where Jamal takes Forrester to the empty baseball field is a pivotal point in their relationship and the movie. After Forrester shares some extremely personal information, Jamal turns to him and says “the rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those that follow”, this being a direct quote from Forrester’s book. This quote, though he was unaware when he initially wrote it, has a lot of significance to his character. Jamal realizes this and reminds him of the words. It is here that Forrester and Jamal’s friendship solidifies and where the end of the movie is foretold.
Hitchens’ statement goes beyond this simple skepticism of one’s knowledge and attempts to immediately refute any assertions if they have no more than a surface level understanding, or lack explanations or confirmations. In addition, the statement also suggests that if what is asserted passes the initial test of having evidence, it can only be dismissed once there is substantial contradictory evidence. Two interesting areas of knowledge which draw from evidence are natural science and ethics, which often encounter each other with opposing viewpoints. Natural science studies the environment around us but also ourselves, just from an outwardly approach (seeing ourselves as a species rather than a society). Ethics, on the other hand, deals with the understanding of human’s thoughts and
The film Back to the Future follows the Three Act Structure, the foundation of all dramatic storytelling. Act One introduces Marty, the protagonist and hero of the story who lives in an ordinary world when we learn about his life, his personality, his dysfunctional family, his girlfriend, and his everyday problems. We are introduced to another character that plays an important role, Doc. In the opening scene there is a lot of foreshadowing, cues that will have a meaning as the story develops. We learn about Doc’s personality, his profession as a scientist, his obsession with time, and how he and the protagonist have a close relationship as Marty knows where the key to Doc’s house is hidden.