The title, Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy is the name of a sort of electronic encyclopedia, which contains information about just about anything in the galaxy and is especially made for Hitch Hiker`s. Ford Prefect is an editor for the Guide. All along the story Ford and Arthur are often helped out by this little gadget. Structure This edition that I have read is a part of a collection called The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy: a trilogy in four parts. It contains four books, the first of which I will be doing this book report on. Setting The story begins in England, in Arthur Dent's home, but it soon expands to a science fiction like setting in outer space. Main characters and their relation to each other Arthur Dent is one of the main characters, he is a simple human from earth, he has a friend, Ford Prefect, who is an alien (Arthur didn't know that until the beginning of the book) from Betelgeuse, he is an editor for the Guide. And finally there is Zaphod Beeblebrox, a friend from Ford's youth, who is also an alien from Betelgeuse. Zaphod is also the president of the universe and he has two heads. Main character in detail Arthur is a really simple guy, content with his little life and not very concerned with anything else. When Ford takes Arthur with him to outer space and shows him all kind of weird stuff it all becomes a little to much for him and he all let it kind of pass him by. He just tries to stay out of harm's way and he does not understand much of what is going on around him. He is a pretty boring fellow, if he could he would like just to go back to earth and go on with his simple life, forgetting about all that had passed. Three things the story is about I think the story is about the insignificance and insanity of many of the things we do, it is like the demolition of Arthur's house at the beginning of the book: he does everything he can to prevent it, but ten minutes later all earth is demolished.
