Conclusion

Taking everything into account, my first experience with hypertext hasn’t been as bad as I thought before starting. Uncle Roger has been the first hypertext that I have read and I hope not the last one because I have liked this “new” way to read. But however, firstly when I tried to start reading it I thought I would never end up due to this hypertext has a considerable extension and I needed much time to read and analyze it.

I have focused my paper on the aspect of space and to sum up, I have arrived to the conclusion that most of the actions in Uncle Roger take place in four spaces:

- The Broadthrow’s house in Woodside, California. ( file1 )

- A restaurant in a hotel. ( file2 )

- Offices of a company. ( file3 )

- Jenny’s thoughts, memories, dreams and nightmares.

On the other hand, the reading comprehension of the text has been quite fluent. Of course I needed to look up some words but just a few ones; the language used in this Judy Malloy’s hypertext is simple and easy to understand. It’s a language of a today’s girl, there aren’t technical terms and the vocabulary used comes from a standard register although there are some colloquial words.

All things considered, this first experience with a hypertext has been very gratifying and I have enjoyed it. It seems to me that being able to choose the pathways of a text allows you to have another perspective about what a text is. I would recommend it to those who haven’t yet read a hypertext because I’m sure that most of them would like this “new” way of reading.

Second paper Introduction Analysis of the SPACE General analysis