Graphic
Tools
The Glass Snail is structured as a
linear text. The reader doesn’t have many options to choose in order to create
the story. The only possibility that we have has readers is to move forwards of
backwards by clicking in the pictures of a hands.
But in a very few occasions we can
make our story by choosing from two different options. That only happens two
times, at the very beginning of the story, where we can choose from which
chapter we want to start (but it really does not matter because we will read
the other one after anyway) and right at the end of the story, where we can
choose a final (although the author recommends us to read both of them).
The rest of the story is divided in
several fragments which are spread in pages. The whole hypertext consists of 24
pages, and many of them have pictures that show the reader in which page of the
chapter they are:
Two
eyes, that is what we can see in page 2.
.
Two eyes and a nose, that is what we
see in page 3.
The whole face, that
is what we see at the last page of the chapter.
Those pictures also give as
information about the chapters in which they are inserted. For example in Mrs
Hatshepsut chapter the picture that appears is the face of a woman. In Mr.
Senenmut chapter the picture is a man’s face. And also tell us things about the
plot, for example in the final page of the tragic end an engraved flame shines
more and more and finally, when the apartment explodes, the engraving gets
totally broken.
On the other hand if we choose the
happy end the flame would shine upon the rest of the picture, which will almost
disappear.
In this hypertext they are no
clickable images, and every time we move towards the pages they get open in the
same window in which we are working. Also they are no clickable words through
the text. But a very interesting characteristic which has this hypertext is the
possibility of continue the reading where we leaved it thanks to the Connection Muse tool.
[Information]
– [Introduction]
– [Analysis] – [Conclusion]
Academic year
2008/2009
©
a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Marta Gimeno
Mínguez
margimin@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de
València Press