Conclusion.

(About the space in this hypertext.)

The analysis of the space in this hypertext can be very fruitful because it makes us arrive to some important and useful conclusions that you can’t get to know just reading it (without analysing).

Now I’m going to start with my own analysis and the corresponding conclusion of all the relevant notions about space that I’ve found.

The woman is the one who makes the action, I mean, everything is around her in this hypertext. The story revolves around the marriage; she has to accept or not his proposal of getting married, so she uses the ride on the Ferris Wheel to think about it (the pros and cons).

First of all she is walking through the Fair (with her boyfriend) and every place she sees has meant something in her life (the Fair is a yearly ritual, the Courthouse makes her remind her divorce 2 years ago, there is also the place where she met her actual boyfriend…) so we can deduce that all the spaces that are appearing along the story are important or have been important in her life. The next thing the couple do is go to the Ferris Wheel line and wait for their turn. When they go to buy the tickets they ask the woman how many tickets do they have to buy but she just says that “they have to figure it out”, for me that’s a metaphor about the life, she has to choose by herself, no one is going to help her in her decisions. The Ferris Wheel is going to be a very important space.

In the line they have in front of them an old couple (is like an allegory of them, perhaps they in the future.) When is the turn to get in the car, the old couple choose a blue one (“like the summer sky after twilight”) and they choose the next, a yellow one, meaning hopes and dreams.

When they are already locked in the car she feels afraid, for me this means that she is now locked in a place with her boyfriend and she can’t escape, a kind of metaphor about marriage. This car is the main “space”, every situation of that car is a change for her (change of mind, feelings, hopes, thoughts…)

These are my conclusions of the different situations into the car:

When the car goes up, she feels afraid, she thinks about her father and it makes her feel better.

When the car stops she feels safe, she swings the car because now she thinks that nothing bad can happen, she thinks about getting married but she’s not sure about it yet.

When the car goes down she thinks about death, she wants to “fall into the never ending black”, she doesn’t care about him, about anything.

When the Ferris Wheel keeps on whirling she changes her mind, she wants to be with him, she thinks about the existence and how insignificant is the human existence… She is reflecting now.

The car stops very close to the ground, now she’s feeling very good, powerful she looks up to the stars, she wants to travel with him through the stars and he agrees.

The car moves again and she keeps on thinking about the stars, when they are in the downside she starts thinking about the marriage again, about giving him an answer soon.

The ride is finishing, and she watches the old couple, she likes the way they are, when they finally go down she tells him: “Yes, I say.Let's get married. Let's be a part of each other forever.”

So we can see that the ride on the Ferris Wheel and the different “spaces” (up, down, stop…) during the ride is like a reflection for her, every position of the car makes her feel safe, bad, good, afraid… but finally she accepts getting married with her boyfriend.The Ferris Wheel is like a representation of her life, hopes, dreams and thoughts. She feels a lot of different things in there, but she is finally able to take a decision.

In conclusion the space is very important in this hypertext because every place means something for her (the main character and the narrator) and when she changes the “space” then everything changes until she is sure about what she feels and what she wants.

Index - Second Paper -Introduction - Space – My Personal Opinion

Academic year 2008/2009
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