TIME
The story begins in June and it finishes more or
less two years later. To analyze the story I choose the first link that it is
the next month of the month that I was reading.
Chronological order:
June:
in his month Anthony remembered all of his friends and what happened with them.
July:
in this month he began going to meetings with other alcoholics and there he met
with Betsey.
August:
Anthony began going out with ex alcoholics every night and also he went out
with Betsey back to her house to talk and smoke.
September:
they made plans for moving to a new house together.
October:
they found a new house at St. Johns Wort and they
travelled on boat at
November:
(the same text if you choose July): he remembered the stories that the
alcoholic anonymous told to other members.
October
(2nd part): he comments the new life with Betsey.
November:
he became into vegetarian and told how they went to Christian concerts
January:
Betsey decided break off with Anthony because she accepted her grandmother’s
offer. In the 2nd part of January is the first time that appear the name
of the main character
March:
he could make himself lean and more energy. He decided continue with the
vegetarian diet.
October:
he bumped into Ginnie Foot and convinced Ginnie to move in with him and they fall in love.
November:
he tells his life with Ginnie.
April:
he describes something greater than sex, the seventh chakra.
February:
Ginnie left too and he rents a small apartment near
People’s Park and found a job as a copyeditor.
April:
he buys a house in
I would like to mention the time of the verbs
that appear in the story. Most of them are in past simple because the main
character remembers the story and tells us, so the story is in the past. There are one sentence in present simple and other in future in
all the text. The first sentence of the text is in present simple “this is not to be a list” and the other
at the last month, April, “I’ll never see
again but it doesn’t make me feel bad”
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Mónica Panadero Sayas
mopasa@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de Valčncia Press