DUST – CONCLUSION/MEANING OF THE TEXT

Reading this hypertext has been nice. But I think it has been better analysing it, because it was the first time I analysed a hypertext with a certain degree of deepness. For me it has been easier to work on one of these than on a printed one. In fact, you can find the examples you want to quote faster and more easily, you can scroll up and down to read through lines, in order to look for a paragraph you are interested in, and so on. I have enjoyed the experience, indeed. I think it is a world that must be expanded to scholar environments, introducing them earlier because I am sure that pupils will find them more interesting or entertaining to read (or at least, not so boring as a printed book).

Refering to the text itself, I consider that Conway did an excellent job with this one. She wrote about a young girl that lost her parents (and part of her life with their dead) and that recovers the feeling of love and protection in a place where she could have never imagined. I think that this topic is truly deep, and as I have said in the summary, it is something almost nobody wants to face, or notice. Jane discovered everything again, something she had lost time ago; she realises that Lucy and Henry pretended to be her “new parents” when she woke up and saw how they protected her. Everyone would like to be protected forever, why not? Dust... it takes everything with him.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© David Ibáñez Salinas
daisa@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press