h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Da?

Da is russian for yes you ignorant ignorant winged beast of burden. Ja?

...and 'si' is spanish for 'if'...until I stick an accent over the 'i' then it is spanish for 'yes'...anywho...uuuuumm...I think I might have gotten a 'B'...but this year I'm fairly sure I've gotten an 'A'...as 20th Century history is so much more interesting than History of The Americas...

Grr.
*brandishes battle-ax*
U.S. History was more fascinating than World History.

depends on what part of the world...but...yes...in general it was...the classes got progressively more interesting...but I have to say that having a dirty old man as a European history teacher made it fun...he'd always say about kings who were somewhat premisquous that they were taking part in the worlds oldest profesion...and...I'd write in my notes "OP"......

He means prostitution.

*sigh*
I know what promiscuoty means, we watched Girl nterrupted in Sociology class and discussed *ahem* the whole thing.
Anyway the Porter scene in Hamlet convinced me that Shakespeare was a pervert.

...the only shakespearian porter scene I can remember from what I've read (Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet...maybe something else) is from Macbeth(aka Maky B.)...the porter makes use of metaphore by joking that he is the porter for the gates of hell...anywho...we know about reading questionable material...I mean...we didn't add "All I ever learned about sex, I learned from the English Reading List" to the list of "You Know You've Been In IB(The International Baccaloreate Program) for Too Long When:" on the back of our IB class shirts...

we didn't add that for nothing is what I ment to say...

Whoops, I think MacBeth and type Hamlet, alas me!
Yes, we quite got the insinuations of the evuivocators entering the castle (hell) and other sinful patrons. He's a darn-ed drunkard, as we say. Then there's the stakes joke in the Merchant of Venice. My favourite is of course, King Lear, followed by A Midsummer Night's Dream. Those were quite humorous, yet not to the point of disgust.

Those were for humorous relief. In a play as dark as macbeth shakespeare felt he needed a funny and maybe even lewd part to prevent the play from being too depressing and dark.

I actually don't think it's so much a comic relief as the playwright trying to scrouge up enough time for the actor MacBeth to change (aha! a sureptiscious plot!)

that's right up there for saying shakespeare's purpose for writing this play was to earn some money...although it was moreso to please James I...

Whenever i'm asked why an author wrote a book i answer that they wanted money. The english teachers don't like this POV.

Shoot...I was going to write a General Answers Lit Review...oh well...I suppose I'll write one here...

1. Title: Sir
2. Author: Anonymous
3. Genre: Novel (she'd kill me if I only wrote that the book was a novel)
4. Point of View: Third Person
5. Setting: Planet Earth some time after lunch. This story could take place anywhere so long as the conditions are the same
6. Plot Summary: The Main character, Joe, was living a normal life until all of a sudden a problem arose. To solve this problem Joe met up with Jim and they had an adventure of some sort. After the climatic point things started to wind up and Joe returned to his regular life.
7. Most Important part of opening scene: The introduction of the characters
8. Most important part of closing scene: the Conclusion of the plots
9. Main Characters: Joe, a mild mannered so and so and Jim, a mild mannered so and so who became friends with Joe.
10. The Major conflict in this novel is Man vs Self, but there is also man vs society and man vs man.
11. The central theme of the novel is the impact that seemingly unimportant events can have on a person's life.
12. The structure of this novel is split up into three books each with subsection. The story is also broken up by irregularities in the plot, such as author intrusion.
13. The major symbols of this novel are colors, each of which mean something specific and match the mood of the images they are present in, light or daylight, and dark or night.
14. The title of the novel refers to an important and symbolic event that occured in the novel; the event is when Joe met Jim at which time he refered to him as "Sir".
15. The tone of this novel is somewhat pensive.
16. The use of time in this novel is a chronological series of events with interspersed flashbacks.
17. The major motif in the novel is the reversal of roles, such as women with masculine qualities and men with feminine qualities as well as the reversal of the roles of night and day; escaping in the daylight and hiding at night. Another important motif is the idea of running from one's problems.
18. The pace of the novel is relatively fast paced when important events occur but becomes somewhat slow when inbeteen these events.
19. The author's style is to divide the books into subsection that revolve around a certain character. Additionally the author use of diction
20. The author's purpose in writing this book is to get some money and to gain fame.
Quotes:
"With that, he bolted through the door and down the road (Anonymous, 8)."
Speaker: Narrator
To: Reader
This quote is important because it is the first time in the novel that Joe runs from his problems and it introduces the reoccuring motif of running away from one's problems.

"Hello, Sir (Anonymous, 21)."
Speaker: Joe
To: Jim
This quote is important because it is the fist time Joe meats his new friend, Jim. Additionally this quote is where the author gets the title from.

"I'm never going back to that flog of a place (Anonymous, 25)."
Speaker: Joe
To: Jim
This quote is important because it not only show's the author's odd choice of diction, but it also ironically forshadows Joe's eventual return to "that flog of a place."

"I've been running all my life, why stop now (Anonymous, 61)?"
Speaker: Joe
To: Jim
This quote is important because it is the first time that Joe admits that he has been running from his problems all his life. This admission is what eventually leads to his return home.

Not general enough generally.

I dislike speaking this but Shakespeare really had no choice. It's all very well to be idealist yet if you earn a living entertaining King Jame's court, he could not do better than invent Banquo and therefore cast doubt on the lineage elsewhere.

I it.

We went over all the subtleties of the play in class including the fact the malcolm and other son fled meant that they didn't deserve to be king and banquo's offspring did.

and yet Fleance also fled...

What you egg!

Fly, Fleance, fly! So what, he obeyed his dear father... And the mirrors showed that he would be king.


Ah, amusing times.