Week Fourteen: The hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was a very fun radio show to listen to. But in all honesty, I don't think I was able to capture all of the fun stuff and criticism it had to offer, mostly because I'm not really familiar with the humor used, nor with the time in which it was released. Still, it was an entertaining ride that had quite the craziness to add to it as well.

To me Hitchhiker's guide held a peculiar essence, but nevertheless entertaining. I think my favorite aspect of the Radio Show was the narrator, and the sassy remarks he offered throughout the story by the most weird and random descriptions, which kept it very fun as the story went on. The narrator is almost like a character himself, since he is not only an omniscient narrator telling us about all the character's thoughts and feelings, but also having the time of his life joking and playing around with us, the audience. 

I also found the main protagonist, Arthur, both comical and sad, in a way very relatable. To me it felt as if he was a representation of an entire group of people, maybe even humanity at it's core: curious about the universe, but afraid of the smallest things that might not hold as much as they should. He is supposed to be a hero like figure, but he is god awful at it, and spends most of the journey getting thing explained to him and panics when faced with danger. However even though he lacks heroism, Arthur has something about him, by finding humor in these terrible, deadly, no-good situations.

A part that was brought to my attention was when he freaked out about his house being destroyed, when Earth itself was on the verge of complete annihilation. That moment alone was to me the most memorable of the the entire story, exactly because of that. We are often advised to think of the bigger picture when in difficult situations, to know that the material things to which we are attached to currently are not of such a big importance as compared to something bigger and larger, and he is faced with the exact same dilemma. He is so worried about his life not following an expected pattern, that even when the world is ending the only thing he can think about is his personal safety, and fear for his own life, the opposite of what is expected of a hero, but throughout the story we see a certain growth of this plain character that finds himself in this crazy adventure and has to avoid problems poured all over him.