Personal Opinion





I have never read a hypertext before and it has been a new experience for me. I find interesting the way you can read one only novel, but focusing in more than one aspect or story at the same time, I mean, a parallel aspect ocuring at the same time.
The aspect to talk about was the Time, but the author don't give exact dates and don't make any concret time references, but more or less we can deduce by the context or by some comentaries of the main character, Jenny, that the acction takes place during five months aproximatelly, from September to January.

The space are very extended because Jenny talks about many diferent places during the text. She talks about California, Haiti, Colorado, etc...
Maybe one deafault of the text is that sometimes, it's hard to recognise when the author is talking about the present of Jenny, or is still talking about one of her dreams or even if it's talking about a real past experience. That is just becouse the pages of the text are not structured in a lineal form. If in total there are 4 pararell situations ocuring at the same time, the author dont write one of them completely, then another an then another, she juts tell a bit of one, another bit of another one, then talks again about the firts one and so on.

The argument of the text, in my opinion is quite boring. The only thing to resalt is that Jeff's project has been stolen by Tom. The rest is all about Jenny, her dreams, her past and her loves.

In File3, most of the last pages are repited. I don't know if the author makes it conciously because in some of them, there is only a part of the page that is repeated, but not all.
Another thing that I don't like is that are supposed to deduce many thing that are not writen. For example, in File1 and File2 Jenny is still working as a babysiter for Broadthrows family, buy in File3 she is sudenly working in a office as a wordprocessor, and we don't know anything about that repentine change.

That's only my opinion, maybe  am wrong about it and many other people find it very interesting.


Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Pablo Ivars Mari
imapa@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press

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