Analysis
of Space
This hypertext, Loveone, is
developed in a lot of different spaces, because the protagonist travels a lot,
so, in order to name and analyze all of them, I am going to divide Loveone’s spaces
in internal spaces and external spaces. Loveone gives us a new view of the
space and time too, and that is possible thanks to the Internet; it does not
matter the place where you are because through the computer and the Internet
you can keep in touch whenever you want.
Internal
spaces
Internal spaces are
those that are localized in a specifical location,
like closed rooms or places for amusement. However is a bit difficult to
distinguish all the internal places, because the text is not linear, and due to
this fact you can read some linked text and you maybe don’t kwon where is
taking place the action of this text.
Here, there are a
collection of the internal places of Loveone:
The municipal swimming pool
outside of Nurnberg, with grass courts. In
the text it also appears other places for pass free time, like tennis court or
a local with a pool table, a commercial center…
Old
farmhouse and inside of it a barn, crowded of digitals cards and hardware
devices and material.
A library and also different places for learn
culture like an art gallery.
Studio apartment not far from Dupont
circle. And an apartment in
A
Saturday morning in Cedar Street,
riding bikes.
Gweneth thinks about warm beaches, or beaches in
Jason’s
back yard.
House, and places inside of it:
kitchen, the computer’s room and her bed. These locations represent lonely
moments. Gweneth is lonely in some moments, but she
connects Internet to feel better.
Inside a car, maybe a
Mercedes. And inside a
truck too.
External
spaces
External spaces are
those that are located in a wide place. They are places treated in a general
view or way, for example when the protagonist visits some countries, that she
does not describe where she is exactly, she does not specify it.
The external space in Loveone
changes a lot. It is focused on several countries like:
Germany.(Gunter is german).
Boston
(recalling that his grandmother bought her a wool suit in a shop there, called
"Peck and Peck).
Washington DC (walking down the
street).
While you're reading from a link to
another, the locations may vary without knowing whether you will continue in
the same places or whether it will change them. In addition to these places,
that Gweneth visits, we can also find other locations
such as Nurnberg, New Mexico, Arizona, the memories of the river Rhine River
and White river and also of the Mediterranean Sea, Munich, Russia, Ireland,
Vermont, Galveston, the Riviera, the mountains of Colorado, Ireland, memories of
Minnesota ...
The emergence of all these external spaces is possible because the
protagonist travels a lot by car, bike, bus, airplane ... So, the story follow
its course through the places listed as the protagonist lives her love story,
and although she changes her location, her way of thinking does not change, and
thanks to the Internet and new technologies she can keep in touch with Gunter,
her lover. The role of new technologies is so important in this hypertext; that
even Gunter sends a marriage proposal from Gweneth
using the computer, an important fact that is possible through the Internet.
Moreover, as the reading is done in a non-linear way, there is some difficulty
in identifying all the spaces, and sometimes the virtual things can be confused
with the real ones.