ANALYSIS OF TOOLS.
I have divided the analysis of the Judy Malloy’s
hypertext, LoveOne, in two different categories,
external and internal structure, to understand better the tools that the author
has utilized.
EXTERNAL STRUCTURE
The hypertext ‘’LoveOne’’
written by Judy Malloy, consist of
a story of 129 pages. Each page contains short paragraphs and some of the
phrases which compose the text have a line in the middle or at the end of the
phrase, a link, which allowed us to choose the order of the lecture.
The lecture of this hypertext can be non-linear with
the frames version, and chose the order in which the pages appear; and the
lecture can be linear, with the version without frames and read the text in an organized
and numerated form. The number of the lines can vary depending on the page, but
all the pages are amongst themselves with the links.
These links can be red, which means that we haven’t
read the page yet, or blue, which means that the page has been read.
All of the most pages have a black background with
white words, but the colour of the background can be changed; we can found four
times the background in green, nine in red and twelve in blue, but the colour
of the words is always white.
In some pages you have the link ‘home’ to back to the
main page.
At the end of the story, at the page 129, we can found
the word ‘reset’ which means that the story has finished; if we click this
link, appears another work of Judy Malloy, "The
Roar Of Destiny Emanated From the Refrigerator. I Got Up to Get a Beer".
INTERNAL STRUCTURE
In the internal structure, we can say that this
hypertext is a diary written by the main character, Gweneth,
who tells about his relationship with his boyfriend Gunter, a German hacker
artist, explains their emotions, travels, relationships, problems.
In
this story can emphasize the main topic of the text, the love, between the main
character Gweneth, the person who writes the diary
and Gunter. And the new technologies, computing and Internet’s word are very
important, as the writer uses the vocabulary of that to refer to another
subject. For example, mixes the love in a poem with the vocabulary of internet
as software, hardware, etc. And in the rest of the text the writer uses a lot
of words connected with Internet’s word (webmoo,
computer, laptop, e-mail, links, etc.).
Furthermore, the topics that compound the story are
connected amongst themselves, love, sex, internet,
travels; and we cannot understand the meaning of ‘LoveOne’
if we don’t read all the text. The topics are mixed and she uses the metaphor
as in the example: the main charter talks about travels in other countries but
she also travels through the love. We can also see this connection in the words
that the author uses, because uses the same words with different meaning,
homonyms (apple, fruit of a tree and apple of a stamp; green, as a color, as a
tennis ground, and a billiardtable) and words seemed
in pronunciation but different in meaning.