Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Misleading Motives (prompt 7)

My predictions from prompt 6 were pretty far off. I predicted that the book would be an adventure story of the group trying to find the true ruler of the universe. It ended up being the opposite. 

Rather than try to find the true ruler of the universe, Zaphod tried to run away. The book ended up being an adventure story of the group trying to avoid finding the ruler of the universe. Although in the end they fail (and successfully find the true ruler of the universe), the vast majority of the book seemed to be random wanderings around the universe (which I was very okay with). 

My predictions were wrong because I put too much faith into Zaphod's determination, and not enough into his lazy and self-serving attitude. A responsible and curious person would have searched for the one true ruler of the universe as he was supposed to, but that didn't adequately entertain Zaphod. I should have seen those aspects of Zaphod's personality and adjusted my predictions accordingly.

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