SUMMARY AND TIMELINE OF

24 HOURS WITH SOMEONE YOU KNOW

 

 

Here is the summary I have been doing of each stage of the story I have read. As you can choose between multiple choices to continue the story, this is my summary, but maybe not yours. At the same time, you can read the choices I have chosen to read the hypertext. They create my timeline.

 

 

 

1.   Beginning of the story:

 

In the first stage of this hypertext we can find the character (who supposedly are you), looking for a house. When the character arrives to the house he was looking for, he stands and looks the house and the street. Finally, he knocks on the door.

 

 

 

2.   We have knocked on the door:

 

In this stage, after knocking on the door, the main character finds the person he’s looking for is not living in that house. Jess, the main character’s cousin, left the house weeks ago. But the people are living in that house invites him to come into the house.

 

 

 

3.   We come into the house:

 

The main character comes into the house and meet the rest of people is living there.

 

 

 

4.   We have gone to a rally with Polly and Ned:

 

The main character goes to a rally with Polly and Ned. They peer into the crowd in the demonstration and straight afterwards Ned invites Polly and the main character to go to get a drink. Polly must go to work, so she doesn’t accept the proposition, but we can choose between going to get a drink with Ned and coming back to the house. Polly tells the main character she will come back to the house a couple of hours after.

 

 

 

5.   We come back to the house.

 

Jess’ cousin arrives at home. It seems there is nobody there, but the music is loud and there is a strong smell of dope. Suddenly, the music stops. Ned goes down the downstairs and asks the main character for doing some different things. He invites Jess’ cousin to go with him to the pool. But he also invites him to go to Polly’s room or Kate’s room, and stands by the door waiting for his decision.

 

 

 

6.   We go to the pool with Ned.

 

In this stage, Ned and Jess’ cousin go to the pool and spend there some time, swimming. Afterwards, they come back to the house.

 

 

 

7.   We come back from the pool to the house.

 

Si is going to have a party. Ned and Kate have an argument because Kate said she wouldn’t go to a Si’s party anymore. But as Kate says, things have changed. Kate and Polly accord to meet them at 10 to go to the party because Kate has some stuff to do and Polly is going to a pub first. Polly invites Jess’ cousin to go to the party with them.

 

As Ned is going straight to the party without Kate and Polly because he has not been invited to the pub, the main character has to choose between going there with Kate and Polly and going there with Ned.

 

 

 

8.   We go to the party with Ned.

 

Ned and Jess’ cousin are in the party when Rick, a friend of Ned, arrives. Ned is drunk. Polly and Kate are in the party, too. Rick and Ned start to argue and Polly takes the main character to the kitchen. Kate tells Jess’ cousin Ned and Jess didn’t get on too well. Ned goes to the kitchen and all of them start talking and joking.

 

 

 

9.   We are having fun in the party.

 

They’re still in the party, but people have gone home and there are no many people there now. Rick and Polly are kissing and Ned has disappeared. Kate is going to a club with some people.

 

 

 

10.       We come back from the party to the house.

 

Jess’ cousin arrives home from the party and finds Ned sprawl in the sofa, still very drunk. The main character is very tired but as Ned is in the sofa he supposedly is going to sleep and he thinks Ned isn’t going to move out from there, Jess’ cousin asks him for some information about her cousin, Jess, but Ned turns off the TV and goes to his bedroom to sleep. Jess’ cousin lies down in the sofa thinking about what is going to do in the morning.

 

 

 

11.       The morning.

 

Here is the ending of the story. There is a picture of a boy putting some things in his car. So I believe Jess’ cousin doesn’t get the information he was looking for and decides to leave the house.

 

 

                                                

 

 

The reader is the main character in the story. This is why the author says “you laugh” or “you say” referring to the main character.

 

 

 

 

[ Second Paper ] [ Time References ] [ Possible Timelines ] [ Conclusion ]

 

 

 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Alícia Cerveró Fornés
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Universitat de València Press