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second paper: RUTH NESTVOLD

 

 

CONCLUSION

The reader participates in Joe's Heartbeat in Budapest to create a narrative. With this text the reader can manipulate the ending. In fact with this text a multitude of scenarios is possible each time the reader participates. The reader can end the narration with the first click, by clicking on Bitch, word that make the text more colloquial. This text needs the reader’s participation. The narrator can manipulate the reader to elicit a more favourable response. Instead of the four choices Yes, No, Maybe, Bitch the reader sometimes only has one or two choices. Sometimes the text ends abruptly, with no choices offered or a tongue poking out at you. The narrator is a different person, depending on the kind of relationship you establish with him or her.

The story, too, shows its frustration with the limited interaction: "Hey, is this a discussion or a monologue? If you want this to go anywhere, you have to do your part, you know. I'm slowly getting the feeling that I'm talking to myself. You have the same impression?"
The unchanging anchors here form a major function in the growing frustration of no interaction:

“Make up your mind, woman.
So will you give me some straight answers now?”
http://www.lit- arts.net/JHIB/you245.htm

This work has been a bit complicate to do, because it was the first time that I read a Hypertext. I’m feeling well with my job, I have done all that I had thought in the introduction.
I have spent many hours on the analysis of the novel that I have chosen, on the other sections of my work (introduction, biography, links, space, characters and conclusion).

I have had many difficulties because I am not used to do works in English. But I find really funny do it, because the hypertext is entertained. I have learned many things, in general, about Internet and hypertext.

 

 

 
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Alicia Aparisi Escrihuela
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Universitat de Valčncia Press