PLOT
The hypertext novel
“The Heist”, by Walter Sorrells, talks about the theft of a bank, from its
preparation in the CCI (Columbia) to its many ends.
The prologue to the
story, however, does not begin with the preparation and planification of the
heist itself, but some (let’s say) months later, when Mo and Teddy Clapp go to
the bank in order to make sure they know everything about the bank they want to
break in the day after.
The main difference
between this literary expression and the traditional novel is that there is not
a predefined “line” to follow, but as many paths as you want, depending on the
choices you make while reading, so you can ending by driving your car into a
tree or catching the thieves that tried unsuccessfully to escape, escaping with
the bank teller and so on.
This is the “magic” of
the hypertext, that you never know how the story is going to end or, if you
read the hypertext and a friend of yours reads it too, you will get to
different endings depending on the choices you have done.
In this hypertext, it
really is a matter of life and death...
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© José Nicanor Liberos Mascarell
jolimas@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de Valčncia Press