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The novel ”Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy’ written by Douglas Adams,
is a travel guide that satirises the traditional travel and exploration
text genre. ... This can be seen in the ”new age’ travel guide, the ”Lonely
Planet Guide to Morocco’. ...
”
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy’ takes these types of facts and
figures that are found in other travel guides, and completely mocks
them. For instance an entry in the ”Hitch Hikers Guide’ involves the
detailed explanation of why a towel is regarded to be the most
”massively useful thing a hitch hiker can have.’ Adams takes well over
a page of the novel to describe this, meanwhile being contrasted with
the importance of the planet earth; seen in the ”guide’ as ”mostly
harmless’.
Through reversing the rational order of events and making ordinary
ideas and objects seem absurd and ridiculous, Adams again satirises
travel and exploration genre. ... Again this is evident in the ”Lonely Planet’ travel guide. ...
Douglas Adams satirises these concepts in the ”Hitch Hikers Guide’. ...
Examples of this can be seen in the ”Hitch Hikers guide’ where it is a
known fact that mice are ”hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings’. ...
Sending up the elements of heroism that exist in everyday travel texts
is one of the main ways Adams mocks the travel and exploration genre. ... ”Captain James Kirt’
of the ”USS Enterprise’ takes his exploration of the universe to the
extreme, to the ”outer regions of the galaxy’. ...
Another example of this can be seen in the ”Lonely Planet’ travel
guide. ... However travellers are warned of the dangers of ”professional
hitch hikers’ where ”various scams unfold’.
Approximate Word count = 1278
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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