Ford
-author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
-from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse
-planned a one week visit on the earth but got stuck there for 15 years
-stayed at a town of Guildford
-a friend of Arthur, that saved his life
-does not take happenings very seriously
-humerous
-funny
-knows a lot about the universe
-takes risks
-loud
-has an answer to most of Arthur's questions
Sonntag, 8. März 2009
Mittwoch, 4. März 2009
Characterizing Figures
Arthur
-nervous
-serious
-narrow-minded
-sarcastic
-sober
-dry
-irritable
-short tempered
-sophisticated
-educated
-eloquent
-helpless
-desperate
-nervous
-serious
-narrow-minded
-sarcastic
-sober
-dry
-irritable
-short tempered
-sophisticated
-educated
-eloquent
-helpless
-desperate
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Chapter 5:
After being shot at they find themselves in a really fancy restaurant! They think they are in afterlife but Zaphod suddenly realizes that they aren't dead but that they are in Milliways (the restaurant at the end of the universe). Everything in this restaurant messes with time and space.The waiter tells them that they have travelled in time but not in space and that they are now 3 million years ahead. They meet up with Marven again, who used to be a super robot who is now parking cars and very depressed. Marven opens the spaceship for them in which it is completely black.Then the universe ended. In the spaceship the characters travel back through time, while trying to persuade Marvin to finally tell them the question.Ford suddenly realized that they were "dropped into the vanguard of an intergalactic war".
After being shot at they find themselves in a really fancy restaurant! They think they are in afterlife but Zaphod suddenly realizes that they aren't dead but that they are in Milliways (the restaurant at the end of the universe). Everything in this restaurant messes with time and space.The waiter tells them that they have travelled in time but not in space and that they are now 3 million years ahead. They meet up with Marven again, who used to be a super robot who is now parking cars and very depressed. Marven opens the spaceship for them in which it is completely black.Then the universe ended. In the spaceship the characters travel back through time, while trying to persuade Marvin to finally tell them the question.Ford suddenly realized that they were "dropped into the vanguard of an intergalactic war".
English Homework
90-94
How is time used to create humor?
The time in the story does not function as we are used toHow could this be viewed as dark comedy?
Dark comedy: Comedy involving disturbing elements, characters suffering irreparable losses
The world universe is about to be blown up in a few minutes and they are dining at a noble restaurant!
Montag, 2. März 2009
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Chapter 4:
Slartibartfast tells Arthur than mice are set up on earth as an experiment in behavioral psychology of them. They wanted to see how much humans have learned by observing the experiments they are doing on them.
But still there is Deep Thought, a supercomputer that can tell future probabilities and knows the answer to life and the universe. On a tape recorder the men listen to him speaking to the representatives of a philosophers union. Deep Thought declares that the answer to the ultimate question of life is 42, but that they would have to find the question which the computer that comes after him could tell them: The earth. Five minutes before the program was completed the Vogons had destroyed it!
They all go to the reception area and find Ford, Zaphod and Trillian lying bleeding in a subterranean corridor who say that they have been attacked by their hosts. The all meet the Frankie mouse and Benjy Mouse, 2 of the mice that control a large sector of the universe and tell slartibartfast that the earth does not need to be rebuilt anymore and that they are still looking for the ultimate question of time since a lot of money is given to them for the search by TV companies. The mice tell Arthur that for him and "Earth Girl" it will be easy to find the question of life and that it will make them very rich. The mice escape when police comes near but tell them to find the question of live. The coops shoot at them because they want to get their spaceship back. As they go on shooting the men realize that they wont be safe for a lot longer since the computer that is protecting them is about to blow up!
Slartibartfast tells Arthur than mice are set up on earth as an experiment in behavioral psychology of them. They wanted to see how much humans have learned by observing the experiments they are doing on them.
But still there is Deep Thought, a supercomputer that can tell future probabilities and knows the answer to life and the universe. On a tape recorder the men listen to him speaking to the representatives of a philosophers union. Deep Thought declares that the answer to the ultimate question of life is 42, but that they would have to find the question which the computer that comes after him could tell them: The earth. Five minutes before the program was completed the Vogons had destroyed it!
They all go to the reception area and find Ford, Zaphod and Trillian lying bleeding in a subterranean corridor who say that they have been attacked by their hosts. The all meet the Frankie mouse and Benjy Mouse, 2 of the mice that control a large sector of the universe and tell slartibartfast that the earth does not need to be rebuilt anymore and that they are still looking for the ultimate question of time since a lot of money is given to them for the search by TV companies. The mice tell Arthur that for him and "Earth Girl" it will be easy to find the question of life and that it will make them very rich. The mice escape when police comes near but tell them to find the question of live. The coops shoot at them because they want to get their spaceship back. As they go on shooting the men realize that they wont be safe for a lot longer since the computer that is protecting them is about to blow up!
Sonntag, 1. März 2009
Poverty Linked To Climate Change
The NYT-article informs that policies for climate change are increasingly linked to those who are helping the poor, since poverty compaigners are concerned by the issue of climate destabilization.
The article states that "many nations are too poor to invest in cleaner energy systems, or to curb deforestation, which releases greenhouse gases".
In a plan released this week by the E.U. environmental commisioner it is stated that "developing countries, except for the very poorest, would have to limit emissions by between 15 percent and 30 percent by 2020 compared with “business as usual” levels."
The article states that "many nations are too poor to invest in cleaner energy systems, or to curb deforestation, which releases greenhouse gases".
In a plan released this week by the E.U. environmental commisioner it is stated that "developing countries, except for the very poorest, would have to limit emissions by between 15 percent and 30 percent by 2020 compared with “business as usual” levels."
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Chapter 3
Ford doesn't believe Zaphod or the Computer that the planet Magenta exists (a legendary planet on which other planets are supposed to be manufactured) and that they are about to approach it. They arrive on the now dead planet Magenta, where a recorded welcome announcement tells them that the planet is closed for business and that they would use the missiles of their guided service system if they would not leave immediately. Still they manage to survive since the missiles eventually turn into a bowl of petunias and a whale, who shows his excitement about being on this new planet. Trillian lost his mice, Arthur is held for their rescuer and they exit the starship to get to the interior of the planet (where most of the Magratheans used to live). They go down a corridor where they met Slatibartfast who tells them that the Magratheans are not dead but that they have slept through the economic recession, since the economy had collapsed. He sais that they are awaking now to perform a commission and takes them to the center with an aircar where the factory to build planets is. He tells Arthur that they originally made the earth and are now planning on making a copy of it from its blueprint.
Ford doesn't believe Zaphod or the Computer that the planet Magenta exists (a legendary planet on which other planets are supposed to be manufactured) and that they are about to approach it. They arrive on the now dead planet Magenta, where a recorded welcome announcement tells them that the planet is closed for business and that they would use the missiles of their guided service system if they would not leave immediately. Still they manage to survive since the missiles eventually turn into a bowl of petunias and a whale, who shows his excitement about being on this new planet. Trillian lost his mice, Arthur is held for their rescuer and they exit the starship to get to the interior of the planet (where most of the Magratheans used to live). They go down a corridor where they met Slatibartfast who tells them that the Magratheans are not dead but that they have slept through the economic recession, since the economy had collapsed. He sais that they are awaking now to perform a commission and takes them to the center with an aircar where the factory to build planets is. He tells Arthur that they originally made the earth and are now planning on making a copy of it from its blueprint.
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