Hitchhikers Summary "Freytags Triangle"

Freytags triangle is a generic system that most stories go by to tell the story line. It starts with an introduction of the characters. There is the rising action which leads to the climax of the story. Then following the climax is the falling action leading to the final resoultion. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy follows this same plot line. At the beginning it introduces the characters just like Freytags implies. Then the rising action is when Ford Prefect tells Arthur
Dent that the earth is going to be destroyed to make way for a galactic bypass. The rising action is when Ford and Arthur fall into space and they have 30 seconds to live and the President Zaphod Beeblebrox's spaceship picks them up within that 30 seconds. The climax of the stoy is when Trillian (Trisha) gets held hostage. When Arthur, Ford, and Beeblebrox go rescue her is the falling action. The final resolution is when earth is being remade and Arthur gets his house back. Marvin shoots the Vogons with the point of view gun and they get sad and depressed. Then the movie has a happy ending and earth is restored back to the way that it was before.