2001 A Space Odyssey Summary

2001 covers millions of years of plot from prehistoric times and on into cosmic timeless space future or what was the future in 1968 when the book was written.

2001 a space odyssey summary. After they interact with the monolith their. The dinosaurs are gone and the man apes are surviving on the equator in what will one day be africa. A space odyssey opens with a ten million year old drought. Strangelove 1964 director stanley kubrick became fascinated by the.

The man apes of the world who lived by gathering berries and nuts were facing a lack of food. Douglas rain as the voice of hal 9000 production. A space odyssey film plot. A giant monolith appeared on earth one day and began to experiment with many of them probing and developing their minds.

When sunlight strikes the object for the first time an incredibly loud and shrilly piercing radio signal is produced that seems to be directed straight toward the position of jupiter. Beneath the lunar surface has been lying apparently for millions if not billions of years a large black monolithic structure. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on earth presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well. 2001 is a story of evolution.

The discovery journey had begun five years ago as a plan to send a man to jupiter. The movie opens four million years ago give or take a few where a group of early hominids lives on the african veldt. In the beginning of the novel the early ancestors of humans encounter the monolith on earth. Dawn comes and moon watcher one of the man apes notices that his father died during the night.

A space odyssey summary. Yet despite that the plot actually isn t all that complicated. In the prehistoric african veldt a tribe of hominids are driven away from their water hole by a rival tribe. A space odyssey summary not your toto s africa.

The entire surface of the iapetus devoid of atmosphere is black resembles charcoal except a white plateau strikingly regular oval with black mark in the center which is exactly the same black monolith as on the moon just gigantic. Evolution is a big theme in 2001. A big part of that is because there s no real character development to speak of. Among those in whom the monolith took an interest was moon watcher the only man ape who walked fully upright.

The experiment started three million years ago was completed. They exist in a simpler technology free time where scrounging for food being hunted by leopards and fighting over muddy water holes is all in an honest day s work.