ANALYZING TOOLS

 

 

          In About Time it is up to you to choose which one of the stories you prefer to read, there are two linkable images that you can click to access in each story. Once you are inside of one story you can decide how to go on. There are some chapters that have links inside the text, there are others where the only choice that you have is to click the links displayed on the left, and these kinds of links are displayed in every chapter. The change of colour of the click shows you in which chapter you are and which one you have already read.

 

 

          In Mouth’s Journey 40,000 Years Ago there are seventeen links, which let the reader take different pathways randomly.

 

          These are the links inside the text in each Chapter :

 

 

     CHAPTER      LINKS

       Mouth             Tuber , boat , unfolding

 

                Boat                North,  flappy things

 

                Tuber              skink

 

                Unfolding         No links

 

                North              Nape and Pouch , termite

     

                Flappy Things  legend , termite , leaving

 

                Leaving           Nape , rainy season , Pouch , Wart and Frog and Silence   

 

                Termite           No links

 

                Legend           No links

 

               Wart and Frog No links

 

               Skink               discoveries , times

 

               Times               No links

 

               Rainy Season    No links

 

               Nape & Puoch  No links

 

               Discoveries       Continents

 

               Continents         busy

 

               Busy                 No links        

 

                As it is easy to see, these links, or key words, address you to the chapters that have the same name of the link.

 

 

 

                  In The De Granville Files Present Day there are sixteen links and we find the same structure than in the former text. It means, links that make pathways to different chapters, they are coloured                            

        in blue. Beyond these links, there are others coloured in red that lead you to pictures. These are faces altered significantly and the author wanted to illustrate what the characters might look like.

 

                  These are the links inside the text in each chapter :

 

 

                  CHAPTER              LINKS                             RED LINKS

          A Sort of Beginning      who I am , trouble                      Herald

 

           Trouble                  Institute for cognitive… , idea

 

           I.C.E.                             No Links

 

          Who I am                        No Links                               Musing

 

           Idea                          Divine Intervention                       rolled   

 

          Divine Intervention      Monday

 

          Tuesday                  Space Dust , Being in a mood 

 

          Space Dust             keynote                                           laugh

 

          Being a mood               No Links

 

          Keynote                       No Links                                    dirt

 

          Splash                    new theory

 

          New Theory          Sheila                                               future

 

          Sheila                     tabloids

 

          Tabloids                      No Links

 

          Skinnycast                  No Links                                    show

 

           Monday                    No Links                                    

 

 

 

                A part of the links, we can enjoy the ‘Environmental Sounds’, by Allen Strange, related with each chapter. This music suggests stunning landscapes through different instruments among them the     

         always-suggestive didgeridoo. And more, there are animations that move the reader to the aboriginal culture in Australia, draws that have been made in dotted technique and that give to the                reader the Australian aboriginal atmosphere.