FIRST PAPER

SECOND PAPER

Subject : # 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el s. XVIII Grupo C

Student´s name : Palazón Radford, Marc

Title of the paper : Same Day Test

Abstract : I’m doing this work about the space in this hypertext. In doing this work I got together with someone else who also wanted to work on this hypertext, abargues, but he wanted to work about the time in the hypertext. We got together and made a chart with all of the different ends to the story,

Then we saw how there were four different types of ends to the story, but several more stories.

The space in the story is where the different actions occur. The author let’s us choose where we want to go or what we’re going to do. Many of these places are the same in the different stories. For example: the main character’s house, the hospital, work, the museum, the princess street gardens…

And most of the decisions the main character can make are also repeated: stay till end of work or leave early, go to the hospital or wait, go to the sea or to see Jill, or catch a bus or stay.

The story tells us about how the main character gets a phone call early in the morning and is told he might have VIH, and how his day goes. The reader can choose to up to 25 different stories, but there are only four types of ends. The main character either finds out that he has or hasn’t contrived the virus, or gets to the hospital when the staff has left and must wait another day for the results, or goes and waits for Jill to come back from work.

Plus, we found information on the author and about the author’s social context at the time, and how it influenced him in writing this story.

I have mantained contact with abargues throughout this work.

Auto-evaluation: I’ve found this paper harder than the first one, but I think I’ve learnt how useful the blog can be by contacting with somebody and splitting the work up in two. I’ve had great difficulty in working on the space of the hypertext because of the various possibilities it offers.

In my opinion, we’ve done a good job and accomplished what’s been asked from us. We’ve analised the text in space and time with a chart of all the possible parts of the hypertext, and a map of all its’ parts at the times they happen.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Marc Palazón Radford
marcpa@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press