hitchhiker

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


 * Book Club Week 1**

Questions: Scott, Lenny Discussion leader: John Food: Joey Reporter: Nick

__Questions:__ 1. Why was the Earth destroyed? The universe needed the space for an intersection.

2. Why was Arthur's house destroyed? They needed it for an intersection.

3. How are both of these ironic and similar? They are both ironic and similar because both the people in head of the town in the earth and the universe told Arthur and the world before, but it obscure places.

4. What is the most useful item for a Hitchhiker? A towel.

5. Why is the towel so useful? The towel is so useful because it can help you survive in every climate in every planet in the universe.

6. Why do you think Earth made no attempt to discover the universe in the book? They didn't know anything existed outside.

7. Why did Arthur care so much for his house? It was all he had.

8. Do you agree that getting drunk is a good way to counter catastrophies? Yes, because it takes your mind away from all the bad things.

9. Why did Ford keep the secret of the elimination of Earth? He didn't know about it till a day before.

10. What else is in the Hitchhiker's guide? All the allies and enemies in the universe to hitchhikers.

__Reporter:__

Our first book club week was very average. Everyone remembered to read and everyone actually had their book with them. Joey's job was to get food, but he forgot so all we had was gum. In our discussion we mainly talked about if we thought the book was going to be good from just ready the first fifth of it. Half of our group thought it was gonna be good, but the other half thought it was going to be boring and hard to understand. Our next topic that we were talking about was who do we think was going to read the whole book. We knew for a fact that there was no way John was going to read the book as he didn't read the last one. We thought that Nick was going to read the whole book, but probably the whole thing in the first week and then forget about it. Everyone else thought that me and Lenny was going to finish the book and Joey was going to get close to finishing it, but not the whole thing.

__Discussion__: 1. The main character in the novel is Arthur Dent/"Ford Prefect". Arthur is an ordinary guy who ends up meeting extra terrestrials. I am drawn to this character because he is different to everyone, since he isn't one of them. at this moment there aren't any bad characters or characters I dislike because not alot has happened, thus not giving characters the chance to do something i wouldn't like or approve of.

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 * Book club week 2**

Questions: Joey, Nick Discussion leader: Scott Food: John Reporter: Lenny

__Questions__: 1. What other different objects do you think that would be useful for a hitchhiker? A gameboy advance just in case you get bored.

2. How many other different galaxies do you think there are? A zillion.

3. If you were picked up from someone going by where would you go? The crab nebula

4. How long has Ford Prefect been hitchhiking for? Since he was little boy.

5. Why did Ford move to Earth? He was hitchhiking and got stuck there for 7 years.

6. Did Arthur ever hitchhike before? No, he never hitchhiked before and never intended to either.

7. Does Arthur like or want to hitchhike? No, all Arthur wanted was to have a normal life as a human.

8. Did Arthur ever imagine the world getting destroyed? No, he never expected something that crazy before.

9. Why do Vogons hate Hitchhikers? Vogons hate hitchhikers because Vogons supposedly have no heart and don't like and non-vogon people on their ship.

10. Why did Ford-Prefect only put in a couple of words in the hitchhiker guide on Earth's description? Ford only put in one sentence beacause Earth is only one out of millions planets in the galaxy and the guide has only a set amount of space.

__Discussion:__ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very easy and smooth read. I can't say the book goes into that much depth either so you can go through it a lot faster. Also, the book uses a lot of different and unknown words, but it doesn't make the book harder to read. If I had to give this book a grade level is would give it 7-9th grade as it is an easy read but not super easy.

__Reporter:__ We started the book club by talking about the usefulness of towels in the Hitchhiker's Guide. While John was getting our food, we talked about how funny and ironic the book was. We laughed about how the Earth got destroyed because of their ignorance. After John finally got his food, we munched on some tasty chips and tried to not go off topic on our book discussion. We ended the book club by talking about what would happen to the main characters of the book.


 * Book Club week 3**

Questions: Scott, John Discussion leader: Lenny Food: Nick Reporter: Joey

__Discussion:__ The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy had a somewhat cheerful and light mood. Despite of the fear and troubles Arthur and Ford had faced, their sarcasm and how they viewed things made being cheerful the overriding emotion of the book. When Ford and Arthur was rescued, they tried to make the best of the situation by trying to be optimistic on the guard that was about to kick them out.

1. Who is Marvin? The little talking robot.

2. How did Arthur find Marvin? They were stranded in the desert when they saw him.

3. How did Ford Prefect try to stay on the Vogon Spaceship. He tried to talk the bodyguard into quitting his job and find a new one.

4. Who is Tricia McMillan? Another hitchhiker who knows Arthur.

5. What is the Heart of Gold? A perfect city completely made of nothing other than gold.

6. Did Arthur ever have a family? He may have, but they never mentioned it.

7. Do you think that the Earth will ever get restored or repaired? Yes, and I think that will happen at the end of the book.

8. If it did, who do you think would have done it? I think that Arthur would find a way to repair it as it was his planet.

9. What do you think would have happened if Arthur never met Ford? Arthur would have never got to leave Earth when it was blown up.

10. Do you think that Arthur could last as a hitchhiker without Ford? Honestly no, as Arthur didn't know anything about hitchhiking in the beginning.


 * Book Club Week 4**

Questions: Nick, Lenny Discussion Leader: Joey Food: Scott Reporter: John

__Questions:__

1. Where did Arthur find the mysterious old man? On the way to their adventure to the Heart of Gold.

2. What is the Magrathea? An extremely strong monster that all hitchhikers are afraid of.

3. How does the mysterious old man know so many things about the galaxy? He used to be a Hitchhiker like Ford Prefect.

4. Who was Yooden? The old President of Betelguese that died a long time ago.

5. Why did Zaphod blow up his people? He wanted to go to the Heart of Gold and didn't want them to get in the way at any time of his journey.

6. Why is Marvin such a sad robot? Maybe because the guy who made him was also a sad creature.

7. Why would Zaphod steal the ship? He might've needed to accomplish something.

8. What connections does Arthur have with Zaphod? Zaphod stole Arthur's girl that he was hitting on and flew her to the stars.

9. Why do you think the doors were happy? Because the creators might have tried to advertise their doors.

10. What does Tricia do for Zaphod? She's Zaphod's girl and his *secretary*.

__Discussion:__ The themes and images that are expressed in the book are mostly backstabbing and comedy. It can be comedy because all the names of the people in the book are so funny and the book also expressed a lot of backstabbing because the Aurthur and Ford are always lieing to survive in the universe. The author uses these themes to show how it is actaully possible for hitchhikers to survive in the universe, but you have to lie and backstab a lot.


 * Book Club Week 5**

Questions: Scott, Joey Discussion: Nick Food: Lenny Reporter: John

__Questions:__

1. How did the plot change from beginning to end? It mostly stayed the same as in the beginning, all Ford and Arthur wanted to do was to survive and at the end they did.

2. Was the end very surprising for you? Not really, as their goal in the beginning stayed the same throughout the whole book.

3. Do you think that Arthur was a better hitchhiker than Ford? Definitely, not, as Ford is older and more of the veteran.

4. Did you enjoy the whole book? I definitely enjoyed it, but some parts were very hard to understand and didn't make so much sense.

5. Who was your favorite character in the book? Definitely Marvin, as although he had no emotions, he was very funny.

6. Why are vogons so powerful? They have all of their money in weapons and arms so they can take over all planets.

7. If there was a sequel, would you read it? If there was a a sequel I would definitely read it as it gave me a lot of laughs.

8. If you could be any character, who would you be? I would definitely be Arthur as he closest to normal.

9. Why did everyone want to go to the Heart of Gold? Cause it was a city made out of gold...

10. Would you read another book from the same author? Yes, as I already like this one.

__Discussion:__ My final reflections of the book is that it was very humorous and gave be a lot of laughs. I really enjoyed it. I would also recommend it to my peers as I know they would like it. Honestly, I really like the book, but I dont think that it would be the right book for the school as it really isnt that educational in any way.

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