3) Time

Time is a very important aspect in this work and it is intimately tied to space, so I'm going to do an analysis of it.

First of all it is necessary to distinguish between fictional and real-time :

1) Fictional time: the time in this work is a present time, own the twenty-first century.

regarding the chronological order of this story, we can say that the story combines the story of Anna in the present, although the time passes, because at the beginning of the story Anna is a little girl and then she is a bit older, with their dreams and memories, it is important that the memories are prominent references to the past

In this story dominates the present time and the past time.

Present time is used when Anna knows the presence oh her grandmother and past time refers when Anna was younger and when she tells her memories.

2)Real time: Speaking about real-time, I have to say that I don’t know exactly as it cost me, because I started throwing a glance al the text, then I looked the vocabulary

and eventually I made a complete reading.

In my opinion the text was quite complicated, it was not clear when Anna dreamed or remembered or when she told, so it has taken me longer than I expected.

4) Style and language

First of all it is necessary to emphasize that the story is told by Anna, the main character, who narrates the history using the first person.

The work has a direct speech, because Anna tells the story using the first person and the dialogs are rather scanty.

On the other hand, we can say that this story has a non-linear argument, since the work is a hypertext

Regarding the language , the author uses a language standard , although it is necessary to emphasize the utilization of colloquialisms and poetical language.

Our bodies are so same that I find myself kissing myself and masturbating when I close my eyes. The pieces seem to have vanished long ago--we are not fly-by-night. I trace to remember that he will be gone soon. My hand finds his hand rolling in where I am--what I am--cast away--keeping with my...slipping but never separating.( a bit colloquial)

And then as she closed her eyes again …,but relentless as a river."--Graham Joyce Dark Sister (poetical language)

The description is not very used to speak about spaces but it is more used when Anna speaks about her dreams

Eventually , I can emphasize the use of metaphors.

“My bed is atop stilts like a dock in lapping water--mossy legs and creaky sway”

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