Genre analysis Elizabeth Karogi Instructor Malcolm Campbell English September Don ? t Panic A Genre Analysis on The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy The post-industrial age is characterized as an age that saw signi ?cant change in lifestyle and culture
Elizabeth Karogi Instructor Malcolm Campbell English September Don ? t Panic A Genre Analysis on The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy The post-industrial age is characterized as an age that saw signi ?cant change in lifestyle and culture This new age experienced great new technological advances With them new writers emerged and sought to understand technology ? s impact on the future Thus the genre of science ?ction was born This new genre expanded to include marvelous things such space travel time travel and even extraterrestrial beings In this genre analysis I will focus on Douglas Adams ? The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy tells the story of Arthur Dent-a normal carbonbased earth-dweller Just as the earth is about to be demolished in order to build a galactic bypass he is saved by his friend Ford Prefect an alien posing as an out-of-work actor After ??hitching ? a ride on a Vogon a species known to be extremely unpleasant spaceship they are quickly ejected out of the spaceship and into space Just as they are about to meet their creator they are suddenly picked up by another spaceship This other spaceship coincidentally happens to be piloted by Zaphod Beeblebrox the President of the galaxy his human companion Trillian and a depressed robot named Marvin This unusual combination of people go on an adventure to discover more about the events that led to the destruction of earth and why the answer to the ultimate question is The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy contains many conventions featured in the science ?ction genre For example space travel is a common convention in science ?ction The entire Cnovel follow Arthur Dent and company as they make their way through the cold and enormous space and to the planets of Damogram and Magrathea Carl Sagan ? s Contact can be compared to The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy The story follow Eleanor Arroway a radio telescope astrophysicist who is working on the search for extraterrestrial beings After years of pointing a telescope to various parts of the sky only to be met with silence she ?nally hears a noise This noise just so happens to be a blueprint from intelligent aliens instructing humans how to build a spaceship Eleonor and other people then proceed travel to meet with the species that contacted them The two novels involve space travel Another convention included in The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy is aliens Adams ? includes many alien species in his novel For example there is Ford Prefect the alien originating from Betelgeuse and his two-headed cousin Zaphod Beeblebrox Then there are the repulsive Vogons Arthur and Trillian can also be considered alien- depending on the perspective In Contact Carl Sagan also included extraterrestrials The only thing di ?erent from The Hitchhiker ? s Guide to the Galaxy is that the alien are enigmatic to both the reader and
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