Arthur Dent Adjectives

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What would you do if you woke up to be told that your house was going to be bulldozed down for a bypass to be built; furthermore, find out that the world was going to end in 12 minutes? Find out what Arthur Dent did in The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy-a fiction book-by Douglas Adams. There are 216 pages in the book, and the main characters are Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin, and Slartibartfast. Arthur Dent is stubborn, trusting, and comical. I will give you some examples of why Arthur Dent is like these three adjectives as I explain the plot.
In The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy-on an early Thursday morning-Arthur Dent a tall dark-haired guy woke up to find a bulldozer in the front of his house.

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