Post Five/Cinco

For my outside reading post this week, I read about five more chapters in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. While reading the chapters, I was wondering why Adams included so many absurd events into his novel, which leave the reader slightly confused. For instance, the chapters I read were a series of random incidents put together. The first two chapters describe missiles attacking the main characters' ship while the third chapter has a much less radical environment to it as the surviving and untouched space ship lands on the planet of Magrathea. Chapter 21 is even less radical as Arthur Dent does nothing more than read an galactic encyclopedia. Although there could be a fairly logical explanation to all of this, I find it to be somewhat out of order. On the other hand, Adams might just have done this to reveal an even greater theme in the book; he could be imitating the bizarre galaxy through his writing. Thus, you could possibly list the author's 'absurd' chapters as a theme of the book. Arthur Dent is also left with a paranoid robot to guard the ship while everyone else goes further in the ancient planet. The annoyed robot turns itself off and Arthur is left more alone than ever before. The other characters' decision of leaving the human to clumsily guard a ship demonstrates Arthur's insignificance in the colossal world around him. This attitude towards Arthur has significantly changed from the beginning of the novel, where he is the only human to be saved from planet Earth. Could this change of mind towards him lead to anything? I'll just have to see.