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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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”It has the words DON’T PANIC printed in large friendly letters on its cover,” This passage from the sci-fi novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglass Adams describes the book in the book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In this book a group of 5 adventurers Marvin, Zaphod, Trillian, Ford, and Arthur, try to find the question that fits with the answer to life, 42 while they feel like the odds. This book conveys the message “ Keep it together” as the group runs into tons of trouble. As I read the message “Keep it together” made me think that you should keep your puzzle pieces together to get the bigger picture. This books setting of the entire universe proves that it would

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