ANALYSIS OF TIME
As I
said in the introduction, this hypertext is about the pregnancy of a
woman, so her author has decided that it each month had a page.
Moreover, each one of them has two or three links, what means that
you can read more than one different description or experience in the
same month (making a total of 22 pages) . For example: "Month
One: Your
Finances | Your
Sleep | Your
Skin",
and
it goes on untill the nineth month. Thus, we can say that the time
gone by the internal story are nine months.
Regarding
the verbal tenses, we must emphasize the use of the future (will),
the second person (you) and the second person possessive (your and
yours). She makes that the reader is token part of the story. You
feel she is directly speaking with the you, but, at the same time,
she is doing that while she is describing her own feelings and
thoughts, (you will feel/do/think that because I felt/did/thought the
same). We can see that in all the hypertext, an example could be:
"You
will receive five copies of the book What to Expect When You're
Expecting" (...) "Then
you will eat sushi and your friend who does not have children will
tell you you're killing your child and didn't you read in What to
Expect When You're Expecting that sushi kills in the womb."
Concerning
other verbal tenses and more we see a lot of references along the
hypertext:
Month
One. "A
few hours", "before the three-weeks-later date", "when
it's too early", "by the time" to speak about "Your
Finances".
Month
Two.
Here,
she includes some past and present tenses because she is repeating
word by word what was said at the moment: "I had..." and
"How's..." in "Your Mood"
Month
Three. She
uses the present tense again: "At age 35 there is..." and
"the odds get worse at you get older" to speak about pieces
of information and "How old are..." to make a rethoric
question in "Your Amnio"
Month
Four. She
uses the present tense to say an statement "The clothes look
like..." in "Your Clothes" and to repeat literary what
was said at the moment of speaking "It's smells like..." in
"Your Discharge".
Month
Five.
She
uses the present tense for a rethoric question again "What is
the point.." in "Your Cobra".
Month
Six.
She
uses the past and present tenses to say literary what people said at
that moment "Do you want a...", "(...) you could have
chosen...", "what gender would you have wanted?" and
the present tense for a rethoric question "Do they think..."
in "Your Outbursts", then she uses the present again to
repeat a thought of that moment "(...) don't leave me..."
in "Your Mucus".
Month
Seven.
She
uses the present tense to repeat what she read and said at that
moment "All new pregnant sluts", "I think it's
illegal" in "Your Vagina".
Month
Eight. She
uses the present tense on a conditional sentence to give advice "If
you are a raving lunatic by this point, you might call the publisher
and threaten to sue" in "Your Moods".
Regarding
the time that each reader uses to read the hypertext, I would say
that maybe 15 minutes for the 22 pages.
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