Posting #1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4-64
Quote Analysis
1. Quote: "And can we also assume," said Ford, "that he's going to be staying here all day?"
"So?"
"So all your men are going to be standing around all day doing nothing?"
"Could be, could be..."
"Well, if you're resigned to doing that anyway, you don't actually need him to lie here all the time do you?"
"What?"
"You don't," said Ford patiently, "actually need him here."
Mr. Prosser thought about this.
"Well, no, not as such..." he said, "not exactly need..."
Prosser was worried. He thought that one of them wasn't making a lot of sense.
Ford said, "So if you would just like to take it as read that he's actually here, then he and I could slip off down to the pub for half an hour. How does the sound?"
Mr. Prosser thought it sounded perfectly potty.
"That sounds perfectly reasonable..." he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.
"And if you want to pop off for a quick one of yourself later on" said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return
"Thank you very much," said Mr. Prosser, who no longer knew how to play this at all, "thank you very much, yes, thats very kind..." He frowned, then smiled, then tried to do both at once , failed, grasped hold of his fur hat and rolled it fitfully round the top of his head. He could only assume that he had just won.
2. Response: I found this quote/page interesting because Ford Perfect basically utterly just confused Prosser so that he didn’t know what he was doing and why he was doing it. Also shows how the author wants to portray the human species in this book, as an inferior species to all other aliens in this book.
3. Significance: This quote, like I said in the response, shows how Author is going to be treated and looked at by all the other aliens. He is going to be looked at as less intelligent and the aliens are going to treat him as someone who they need not to affiliate themselves with. Author will probably be ignored through the entire book.
Questions
- What do you think Ford Perfect meant when he said ““If we’re unlucky,” said Ford grimily, “the captain might be serious in his threat that he’s going to read us some of his poetry first…”?
- How do you think Author will be portrayed as by the Vogons.
3 comments:
Questions
1. What do you think Ford Perfect meant when he said ““If we’re unlucky,” said Ford grimly, “the captain might be serious in his threat that he’s going to read us some of his poetry first…”?
Maybe their poetry is so bad that it is actually used as a torture device at times. It could be exaggeration though considering the worst poetry in the universe was written on earth though. This could just be used to launch further into how different aliens are in comparison to us.
2. How do you think Arthur will be portrayed as by the Vogons.
Probably a small insignificant pest. They won't think very highly of him considering all it says about earth is mostly harmless and they just destroyed his planet. He will probably be the most mad at the caterpillars that let them in, but he can't really punish them so he's going to torture Arthur.
I agree that the human race will probably be portrayed as a tiny, weak and insignificant life form. Arthur will probably be ignored throughout the entire book, but eventually he will have some way of getting attention and proving he's not that insignificant.
1. I'd have to agree with Joe, I think that since all the vogons know is running businesses I would expect them to have a horrible creativity lobe.
2. I don't think that they even acknowledge him in some cases, they just see him as a little fly on their windshield (In other words he's a simple hitchhiker).
I think that the author describes the human race as a small and tiny insignificant race, moslty because they are. The reason I suspect that they are so small is because the aliens already know how to go from one planet to another (in less than 4 years) and also have all of the technology that they have without us knowing or seeing anything suspicous.
1: I think that maybe the Vogon's have a special area in the brain, created from their uglyness, that sends shockwaves of suffering when they attempt to convey a sense of poetry.
2: I think close to the same. He won't be noticed until he gets involved in the main events of the galaxy.
I agree with how Arthur is not noticed much by the aliens. He is probably not going to be standing out from the general alien public, too, they may not realize that earthlings couldn't go to other planets. (Interstellar Travel)
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