Introduction
This Judy Malloy's
hypertext shows us a main text, in which every phrase is a different link,
which takes us to small texts that complete the story and that in turn, they
have other links (that are red lines, because if they will be blue, this will
indicate us that we have already seen this link) that contain other texts that
also complement the story to be able to understand it in its entirety. Loveone
is an extensive work, that contains 129 pages, and this can be a disadvantage
for the readers, because it is possible to feel disoriented or lost while you
try to read it, to figure out the main plot of the story , or to find the end.
The text is written as if it contains the pages from a
diary, in this case the Gweneth’s diary, the protagonist of the story. There
are different coloured pages, like black, white, blue, green or red
backgrounds. However, it seems a defragmented text without any type of
cohesion, because it contains a lot of links that follow another one, without
any kind of order. At the end of Loveone there is a page that only says
"reset" so that if you click on it, you reach other different texts
written by Judy Malloy.
Loveone is about a love relation between Gweneth and
Gunter. The story tells us about their life in many situations, their travels,
friends, their work, their studies and their physical and mental emotions. And
it also tells us, the life of the protagonist, her family and some past experiences.
Moreover, the information technologies, computers, Internet... play an
important role in the text, because Gunter is a hacker.
On the other hand, it is quite difficult to know what treats each text, because
all texts are continuations of others and they are intertwined, and so, as I
have said before, Loveone only makes sense in the whole of all its pages with all its links.
So, having read the text in its entirety, I'm going to
do an analysis of the space where the actions of Loveone take place, that is an issue that can be develop in many ways,
because of the protagonist travels a lot and there are a lot of different
places in this hypertext.