Post Eight/Ocho

As I continued reading the last chapters of the novel, I realized that this book was generally over much too soon. Douglas Adams’ idea as well as description of a possible galaxy out there could make up an inexhaustible amount of stories. His specific story however, about a humanoid named Arthur Dent, could continue on to boundless adventures and events. Thus, the ending to the book left me confused. Why wouldn’t Adams carry on writing about the adventures of Arthur Dent? Fortunately, my question was solved by the names of all his other novels. Getting back to the final three chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and Trillion are all able to escape from the planet Magrathea in time. This is because the vast galactic police had finally tracked Zaphod Beeblebox down and were trying to arrest him and all the others. Furthermore, their escape from the planet was the accidental combination of a clinically depressed robot and an old man. This event (as most of all the other events in the novel) occurred completely by chance. Although the novel becomes more and more confusing in the midst of all of the events in the resolution, the author did an exceptional job at connecting loose ends and coming up with an end to a never-ending story. However, I found the end to be somewhat predictable and unreasonable. All of the characters survived and were off to fulfill more adventures. This ending could have also been a basis to Adams’ other novels. Overall, I enjoyed most of the author’s book and will probably read more of the hitchhiker adventures in the future.