Conclusion: We have
been
talking about hypertext since the course started; we have been dealing
with
articles that pointed out their advantages and its drawbacks as well,
and also
different points of view, some are for and some are against
them.
It was the first time
that I
have had the opportunity of having read one of those texts, and I must
admit
that at first, it was I bit difficult to know where should I have gone,
after
finishing a page I am I was a bit lost.
I suddenly realized
that the
way I was told to read since I was a child was not allowed here, so I
started
to think in a ‘non-linear’ way until the end if the story, and after a
second
reading I have completely understood everything.
As we have been
discussing so
far, the hyper-text has advantages and disadvantages as well respect
for the
traditional way of reading, “the printed book”
As far as I am
concerned it
is much more better to open your mind and trying to think in a “non-
linear
way”, otherwise you become a linear thinker, and what’s more, non-
linear do not
always mean “chaos”, whenever you choose a “path”, you read linearly,
so the
thing is that there is no one linear way to read the text, as Charles
Deemer
suggest in his article, ‘What’s a hypertext?’
In the text itself,
there are
also lots of literally
examples of virtual reality
The word 'loveone', with
is the
title of the hyper-text has its significance, it is not a word at
random. The
main topic of the text is a relationship between a man and a women,
although
there are other topics which hasn’t got the same importance and it is related lots of times with
electronic
devices such as computers, laptops, palmtop
I want also to talk
about the
way in which the story is told, that is from the first person, that is
to say,
that the narrator is inside the story.
If it were an
omniscient
narrator, he could know the characters beliefs and thoughts, but being
a first
person narrator, she only can be aware of their own feelings, and what
can only
do is speculate about the rest of the characters.
I would say that the
most
important moment in the whole story is when Gunter asks Gwen if she
wanted to
be her wife and she answers with such a simple word as it is “yes”.
What have
caught my attention is the way it is proposed, that is not the
commonest one,
and it has a lot to do with this new world of
communications.
This format is really
useful
when the writer want to emphasise that a person is dreaming, since
going to an
other page you feel that you have entered the dream [1] [2]
.
I would like to
conclude by
saying that it was a fantastic opportunity to have read this story,
although it
was a bit confusing at first, once you get used to it, it is just
another way
of reading, what’s more it would be the literacy of the following
years, and
the way the have to work and think from right now.