Arthur Dent

Characters The protagonist is called Arthur Dent which we meet right at the beginning of the book he is just a normal guy who doesn't want to be the hero and save the universe. One thing we learn about Arthur Dent right off bat is that he is courageous, he fights for his right and is resilient. We learn this as every morning since the plan to destroy his house for a space bypass, he has laid in front of the bulldozers in protest to protect his house.() He shows his courage many more times throughout

The Hitchhikers Guild to The Galaxy follows Arthur Dent, an earthling, paired with his alien friend Ford Prefect. The two manages to escape the earth before it is demolished to build an intergalactic freeway and set upon their journey. Hitching a ride on a Vogon spaceship the two start their adventure. Unfortunately, the Vogons don 't like hitchhikers, so Arthur and Ford get thrown out of the spaceship to die in the cold void of interstellar space, where not even Starbucks exists. Meanwhile, Ford

As a kid, Arthur Dent probably lived in a suburban household with his mom and dad. He probably had a sibling he would bicker with. He might have had menial events to worry about like tests and exams, but it is highly doubtful he had had to worry about the end of the world and life after it. In the novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the protagonist, Arthur Dent is an orphaned hero searching for safety and is afraid of being used for someone else's purposes. After he barely

sane at the end of it. Arthur Dent went through all of this and then some yet, he stayed relatively the same. On the other hand, his perspective of life and everything he thought he knew had several large transformations. Separate from his change in perspective, Arthur Dent is truly a very different breed of protagonist. His physical traits and nonchalant attitude are the very opposite of what one would expect of the “hero” in an adventurous sci-fi novel (Phillips). Arthur Dent is the classic “Average

Keywords: speed painting, how to speedpaint, speed drawing, speed paint SPEED PAINTING What is speed painting? Speed painting is art that is carried out in a set period of time, where the clock determines how much time an artist has. This can be anything from minutes to a couple of hours. After the time is up, an artist can no longer make any additional changes to the work. Speed painting can be helpful for beginner artists to learn painting techniques, and for experienced artists to practice

Ulysses S. Grant’s inaugural address the main idea is to support the people and make the country great for them. He accomplishes this by using rhetorical strategies. In his speech the devices he used was tone, imagery and lastly Key Words. With him using these devices he is able to show how important the people are in his presidency. He splits his speech into three sections, one about his dedication to the people and the country. Secondly about the issues about the national debt/economy and the west

into the plot was very innovative, because even though it had been done before, it had never been done this well. Jerome Robbins had thought of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to a Broadway musical in 1949. He began discussions with librettist Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein of a musical called East Side Story, with a plot concentrating on a Catholic girl and a Jewish boy. Other projects forced the work aside for six years, and when they returned to it, times had changed. Their

What role did the great King Arthur play in the way English Literature is perceived? Did King Arthur honestly exist? “Whether King Arthur existed or not is doubtful. However if King Arthur did exist, then he would have lived sometime between 400 AD and 600 AD, a time of turmoil in Britain following the Roman withdrawl. And a time when written literature did not exist, therefore events during this period are only known about from folklore passed down several generations before being written down

Generation Lay-Z Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a salesman, was published in 1949. The Broadway premiere was February 10, 1949.The setting takes place in New York and Boston in 1948. Willy Loman, and old salesman, returns home from a business trip .He returned from his business trip early because he was going off the road while he was driving. His wife Linda suggest to Willy that maybe being on the road isn’t safe for him, and that he should ask his boss ,Howard, for a local office job

From the time Arthur Miller began writing plays, till his recent death in 2005, he had never had such a well know play as Death of a Salesman. This play was first performed in the late 1940’s. It reveals the struggle of an old, worn out, salesman who is upset with the life that he has created. With the strain of his past mistakes lurking in the back of his mind, Willy cannot handle the stress and begins to have hallucinations of the past about the things he could have changed. 1.) Towards